Oncology nursing forum
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Oncology nursing forum · Oct 1997
Bone marrow transplant nurses' knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes regarding pain management.
To measure bone marrow transplant (BMT) nurses' knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes regarding pain management. ⋯ Educational offerings can increase knowledge and promote positive beliefs and attitudes among BMT nurses, thereby enhancing pain management.
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To explore women's perspectives of the experience of surviving breast cancer. ⋯ An awareness and description of current issues and feelings surrounding survivors of breast cancer can assist the multidisciplinary healthcare team in caring for and supporting women and their families and friends during this experience.
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To explore current knowledge of placebo effects, including proposed explanatory mechanisms, influencing factors, characteristics, and implications for practice and research. ⋯ Nurses can take measures to improve the patient's response to treatment, including providing a comfortable environment, using therapeutic communication techniques, helping patients to understand specific mechanisms of their treatment, and encouraging positive expectations and motivation for effectiveness.
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Oncology nursing forum · Aug 1997
Review5-HT3-receptor antagonists: a review of pharmacology and clinical efficacy.
To review the role of serotonin in chemotherapy-induced emesis and the mechanism by which 5-hydroxytryptamine3 (5-HT3)-receptor antagonists block the action of serotonin; to review the pharmacology and clinical efficacy of the 5-HT3-receptor antagonists in controlling nausea and vomiting induced by highly emetogenic chemotherapy regimens, including a comparison of agents in this class. ⋯ 5-HT3-receptor antagonists have had a profound impact on the clinical management of acute chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Based on their unique mechanism of action and low toxicity profile, the 5-HT3-receptor antagonists offer a relatively new approach to controlling nausea and vomiting associated with highly emetogenic chemotherapy.