Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Oncology nursing: is there still a future? *

Oncology nursing: is there still a future? * Oncology nursing: is there still a future?* YVONNE WILLEMS * This paper was presented at the ECCMConferencey Florence, in October 1991, on receipt of the Distinguished Merit Award. This provocative title has much to do with the mood I was in the day on which I received a fax from the organizing committee of ECCO-6 asking me to send them the title of my paper. It was not a good day. The Director of all the hospitals in the region had just found out that our oncology ward was, in his opinion, too expensive to run,and wanted to have my comments very soon. Cuts in my staff were therefore possibly looming - and this after ten years of fighting to have more positions for nurses! At the same time, an inexperienced assistant doctor was creating many problems with his authoritarian behaviour on the ward. As if this was not enough, on the same day the research nurse and myself received from the National Cooperative Group a new and already activated protocol, in which immunological parameters were correlated with the quality of life of patients with breast cancer. Not only was this protocol completely unknown to us, it required http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Cancer Care Wiley

Oncology nursing: is there still a future? *

European Journal of Cancer Care , Volume 1 (5) – Dec 1, 1992

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/oncology-nursing-is-there-still-a-future-VCY2usG9ZR

References (1)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0961-5423
eISSN
1365-2354
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2354.1992.tb00137.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Oncology nursing: is there still a future?* YVONNE WILLEMS * This paper was presented at the ECCMConferencey Florence, in October 1991, on receipt of the Distinguished Merit Award. This provocative title has much to do with the mood I was in the day on which I received a fax from the organizing committee of ECCO-6 asking me to send them the title of my paper. It was not a good day. The Director of all the hospitals in the region had just found out that our oncology ward was, in his opinion, too expensive to run,and wanted to have my comments very soon. Cuts in my staff were therefore possibly looming - and this after ten years of fighting to have more positions for nurses! At the same time, an inexperienced assistant doctor was creating many problems with his authoritarian behaviour on the ward. As if this was not enough, on the same day the research nurse and myself received from the National Cooperative Group a new and already activated protocol, in which immunological parameters were correlated with the quality of life of patients with breast cancer. Not only was this protocol completely unknown to us, it required

Journal

European Journal of Cancer CareWiley

Published: Dec 1, 1992

There are no references for this article.