A specialist breast care nurse role for women with metastatic breast cancer: Enhancing supportive care

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 627-631

  Watts, Kaaren ^a   Meiser, Bettina ^a,b   Conlon, Helen ^a   Rovelli, Susan ^a   Tiller, Kerry ^a   Zorbas, Helen ^a   Lewis, Craig ^a,c   Neil, Gillian ^a   Friedlander, Michael ^a,c  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 80655123342     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/11.ONF.627-631     Document Type: Article

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