Palliative Care: Delivering Comprehensive Oncology Nursing Care

Seminars in Oncology Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 327-337

  Dahlin, Constance ^a,b,c  

^a Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association   (United States)

^b Center to Advance Palliative Care   (United States)

^c NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Oncology APN; Oncology RN; Palliative care; Primary palliative care; Specialty palliative care

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASM; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; ONCOLOGY; ONCOLOGY NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; NURSE'S ROLE; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945540671     PISSN: 07492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soncn.2015.08.008     Document Type: Article

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