Palliative Radiotherapy and Oncology Nursing

McMenamin, Erin; Ross, Nicole; Jones, Joshua

doi:10.1016/j.soncn.2014.08.006

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“…Oncology nurses assess the patient's knowledge and goals for treatment, as well as monitor for symptoms related to bone cancer. The most important part of initial care is empowering the patient and ensuring that the patient and family understand that radiotherapy and subsequent nursing care are aimed at palliation [57]. Emotional support is invaluable to patients facing dose fractionation due to bone cancer.…”

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Nursing Care for Metastatic Bone Cancer: Trends for the Future

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Hirsch

2023

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To effectively treat patients and minimize viral exposure, oncology nurses and radiology departments during COVID-19 had to re-examine the ability to offer palliative radiation treatments to people with metastatic bone cancer. Decreasing potential exposure to the virus resulted in extra measures to keep patients and personnel safe. Limiting radiotherapy treatments, social distancing, and limiting caregivers were a few of the ways that oncology patients were impacted by the pandemic. Hypofractionated radiation therapy (HFRT), or the delivery of fewer higher-dose treatments, was a method of providing care but also limiting exposure to infection for immunocompromised patients as well as healthcare staff. As oncology radiation centers measure the impact of patient care during the pandemic, a trend toward HFRT may occur in treating the painful symptoms of bone cancer. In anticipation that HFRT may be increasingly used in patient treatment plans, oncology nurses should consider patient perspectives and outcomes from the pandemic to further determine how to manage future trends in giving personalized care, and supportive care.

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Nursing Care for Metastatic Bone Cancer: Trends for the Future

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Hirsch

2023

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“…Specialised and advanced practice nurses also play valuable roles in dedicated palliative programmes. In addition to direct patient care, they co-ordinate meetings, optimise communications between families and care providers, elaborate on the trade-offs between the toxicities and potential benefits of treatment and clarify specific goals of care to ensure appropriate treatment choices are made [49]. Nurses have also taken prominent administrative roles within rapid access programmes; for example, the SPRO service has a shared physician/nurse practitioner leadership model [32].…”

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Rapid Access Palliative Radiotherapy Programmes

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One of the greatest successes of radiotherapy has been its ability to palliate symptoms from advanced and metastatic cancers. Unfortunately, patients face barriers to accessing care and the demand for treatment is rising. Rapid access palliative radiotherapy programmes were created in response to these concerns, and over time they have proliferated and succeeded internationally. This narrative review provides an overview of programmes that have published their experiences, and discusses how they have improved access to care, increased evidence-based practice, met the needs of vulnerable populations, advanced the roles of multidisciplinary team members, collaborated across medical specialties, educated trainees and referring physicians, and developed new treatment platforms using advanced technologies.

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Patients' outcomes related to person-centred nursing care in radiation oncology: A case study

Rose

Yates

2015

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

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Palliative Radiotherapy and Oncology Nursing

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Nursing Care for Metastatic Bone Cancer: Trends for the Future

Nursing Care for Metastatic Bone Cancer: Trends for the Future

Rapid Access Palliative Radiotherapy Programmes

Patients' outcomes related to person-centred nursing care in radiation oncology: A case study

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