Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>This article discusses the implications of introducing novel treatments into clinical practice.
<p>Chemotherapy-related cognitive deficits in adult patients with colorectal cancer, also referred to informally as ‘chemobrain’ or ‘chemo-fog’, have not been widely studi
<p>Clinical supervision is an effective way to provide support to staff.
<p>This article briefly describes what is meant by ‘targeted cancer treatments’ and how they differ from chemotherapy, before considering why nurses need to understand the
<p>National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2004) guidance for improving supportive and palliative care for adults with cancer identified a need for speciali
<p>Bournemouth is the setting for the Grove Hotel, which caters for guests with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, and their carers and families.
<p>A prospective, multinational study conducted in the United States, Europe, Australia and Canada found the risk of oral mucositis to be as high as 99 per cent in patient
<p>New and emerging treatments with the potential to extend survival are reshaping and extending the management pathway for men with metastatic castration-resistant prosta
<p>An audit of mortality figures for patients undergoing chemotherapy for urothelial malignancies identified three deaths as a result of neutropenic sepsis in the authors’
<p>The advice presented in this article reflects the consensus opinion of research and oncology nurses and a clinical trials practitioner involved in managing patients wit
<p>This article describes the experience of a nurse on an educational travel scholarship to a cancer centre in New York.
<p>The 20-year relative survival rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer in England and Wales between 1991 and 1993 was 44 per cent.
<p>As survival rates for patients with cancer improve, more patients are accessing critical care. This article explores the background to decisions to admit to critical care, as well as outcome data for critically ill cancer patients and notions of appropriateness of treatment.
<p>Each year in the UK about 1,500 children are diagnosed with cancer. While survival rates have improved, about one fifth will die as a result of the disease.
<p>Public policy emphasises the need for cancer patients to have access to information that will help them with choice and decision making.
<p>This article provides practical guidance for oncology nurses on the recognition and management of potential side effects associated with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor pazopanib for treating adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma (aRCC).
<p>This article describes a practice development project at a gynaecological oncology centre aimed at improving patient experience before admission for major pelvic surgery.
<p>Nurses considering working for charities may not be aware of how they can use skills they have gained in the clinical area. This article aims to explain how those who are at an advanced stage in their careers can further develop their skills in the voluntary sector as specialist nurses.
