Cancer Nursing Practice
Editor's choice
Nurses need to do more on cervical screening as Jade Goody effect fades
Ten years on from peak Jade Goody factor, nurses should encourage women to book a test
Newsroom
RCNi Nurse Awards 2019: find out who is in the finals
We reveal this year’s shortlist of fabulous nurses, healthcare assistants and teams
Sexual harassment of nurses is too often ‘brushed aside as a misunderstanding’
Congress wants employers to provide more protection for staff
Demands to show ‘resilience’ put greater pressure on nurses, congress told
Nurses struggling to cope in stressful workplaces are pressured by demands to show resilience
Congress demands mandatory sepsis training
RCN members back call for mandatory sepsis training after hearing survivor’s account
Multitude of nursing uniforms causing confusion in England
Congress discusses whether a national uniform should be introduced
Bullying in the NHS: ‘Nurses must take collective responsibility to help tackle problem’
RCN congress hears nurses’ own accounts of workplace harassment
Evidence and Practice
Effect of dilution and delivery speed on phlebitis after epirubicin chemotherapy
Ensuring the right concentration of saline could reduce risk of pain during administration
Is online chat a solution or barrier to communicating with people with prostate cancer?
Methods of communication have become less personal and more reliant on technology
Psychological effects of choosing active surveillance on men with prostate cancer
The psychological effects of active surveillance and how nurses can support patients
How people with myeloma perceive patient-reported outcome measures
Views of patients and family members about commonly used patient-reported outcome measures
Sexual activity after treatment for head and neck cancer: the experience of survivors
It is critical that healthcare providers meet the informational needs of this population
Coming out in cancer care: is disclosure of sexual orientation beneficial?
Nurses and other health professionals are expected to ask patients about sexual orientation
Features
Homeless people urgently need timely and effective healthcare
Study shows it is often too late when homeless people present with cancer at hospital
Nursing older people with cancer
The final article in our series on how cancer affects different patient demographics
The case for sentinel node biopsy
The less invasive way to diagnose and treat head and neck cancers
Coping with body image changes after cancer treatment
How nurses can improve their support for women with cancer
Ensuring nurses feel confident providing LGBT cancer care
Providing the best care can be challenging, but there are resources to help
Making cancer research nursing an attractive career choice
Cancer research roles are often misunderstood, but are vital to cancer care
Opinion
Nurses need to do more on cervical screening as Jade Goody effect fades
Ten years on from peak Jade Goody factor, nurses should encourage women to book a test
Nurses should encourage people to talk about dying
Demystify palliative care and advance care planning by helping patients to talk about death
How my patient experience has enabled me to empathise with those in my care
My own diagnosis made me re-evaluate what I thought I knew about survivorship
Students
Don’t worry if you shed a tear
Looking after a patient nearing the end of life can be daunting, but one nursing student...
An insight into the hidden battles of patients with invisible illnesses
When nursing student Laurie Batchelor helped care for a patient in the community with cancer...
Student’s homemade songbook helped patients forget cancer symptoms
When nursing student Georgia Brain created a book of lyrics to help her patients remember...
Careers
‘Never lose sight of the person within your patient’
Jane Billing, lead for a urology oncology nurse specialist service, talks about her job
‘I knew oncology was my passion and I have never looked back’
Lead research nurse Julie Duncan explains her passion for cancer nursing
My job: Macmillan hepato-pancreato-biliary clinical nurse specialist
Vicki Stevenson-Hornby on being an advocate for a specialist cancer patient group