Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Identifying and meeting survivorship needs
This article reports on the development and delivery of a nurse-led end of treatment...
09 Jul 2014
Improvement of chemotherapy practice and quality of care
There has been increased pressure on chemotherapy day units in recent years due to a rise in...
09 Jul 2014
Holistic needs assessment: Rationale and practical implementation
Many people are living with or beyond a cancer diagnosis in the UK. The vision of the...
10 Jun 2014
An assessment of the value of music therapy for haemato-oncology patients
The aim of this service evaluation was to assess the value of music therapy for adult...
10 Jun 2014
A nurse-led psycho-education programme for Chinese carers of patients with colorectal...
Aim To evaluate the efficacy of a nurse-led, telephone, psycho-education programme in...
10 Jun 2014
Parents’ spiritual and religious needs in young oncology
Aim To identify the spiritual and religious needs of young people with cancer. This article...
08 May 2014
Adherence to oral chemotherapy: a review of the evidence
Oncology is rapidly changing. Over the past few years there has been an increase in the...
08 May 2014
Exploring patients’ knowledge expectations during the illness trajectory
Aim To explore patients’ knowledge expectations in relation to the content and meaning of...
08 May 2014
The role of discharge co-ordinator in oncology
Aim To explore, develop and support the role of discharge co-ordinator. Method Data were...
07 Apr 2014
Investigating aspirin use to prevent bowel cancer or its progression
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK, causing significant physical and...
07 Apr 2014
Findings from the National Mesothelioma Experience Survey
This article reports on the results of the National Mesothelioma Experience Survey, which...
07 Apr 2014
Understanding and responding to spiritual and religious needs of young people with...
Aim To identify the spiritual and religious needs of young people with cancer, and to...
11 Mar 2014
Women’s view of 23-hour hospital discharge following mastectomy
Aim To evaluate the experience of women who underwent mastectomy without reconstruction as...
11 Mar 2014
Development of a wellbeing clinic for patients after colorectal cancer
This article explores colorectal cancer patients’ experiences of a wellbeing clinic that...
11 Mar 2014
Patient satisfaction with information on late effects
A patient survey was conducted to determine satisfaction with information provision during...
11 Feb 2014
Co-ordination of supportive care needs in metastatic breast cancer
Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) play an important part in the delivery of care to patients...
11 Feb 2014
New methods of detecting cancer and identifying genetic risk of disease
The previous articles in this series focused on the genetics of cancer and cancer risk, and...
01 Dec 2013
Ethical implications of consent in translational research
In the UK in 2010, 325,000 people were diagnosed with cancer with one in four dying from the...
01 Dec 2013