Building cancer nursing skills in a resource-constrained government hospital

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2211-2215

  Strother, R M ^a   Fitch, Margaret ^b   Kamau, Peter ^c   Beattie, Kathy ^b   Boudreau, Angela ^b   Busakhalla, N ^d   Loehrer, P J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^c MOI TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^d MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer nursing; Western Kenya

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CARE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MORBIDITY; NURSING COMPETENCE; NURSING KNOWLEDGE; NURSING PRACTICE; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION, NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; SPECIALIZATION; STAFF DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84865155271     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1482-z     Document Type: Article

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