Incorporating supportive care into routine cancer care: The benefits and challenges to clinicians' practice

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ristevski, Eli ^a,b   Breen, Sibilah ^a,b,c   Regan, Melanie ^a,c  

^a GradDip Cancer Care   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LATROBE REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOTHERAPY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NEOPLASMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; RADIOTHERAPY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 79955571577     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/11.ONF.E204-E211     Document Type: Article

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