Effects of an intervention aimed at improving nurse-patient communication in an oncology outpatient clinic

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Rask, Mette Trøllund ^a   Jensen, Mette Lund ^a   Andersen, Jørn ^a   Zachariae, Robert ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer; Communication skills; Education; Nurse patient relations; Nursing; Oncology

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NEOPLASM; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; ONCOLOGY NURSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; TIME; TRAINING; AMBULATORY CARE; BURNOUT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DENMARK; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JOB SATISFACTION; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; DENMARK; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; NEOPLASMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 60849117284     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000343365.13871.12     Document Type: Article

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