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- Title
A Specialist Breast Care Nurse Role for Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer: Enhancing Supportive Care.
- Authors
Watts, Kaaren; Meiser, Bettina; Conlon, Helen; Rovelli, Susan; Tiller, Kerry; Zorbas, Helen; Lewis, Craig; Neil, Gillian; Friedlander, Michael
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of specialist breast care nurse (BCN) in handling women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. It says that BCN provides a range of key interventions, including psychosocial support, patient intervention, and information, and has expertise and training in the management and treatment of patients with breast cancer. Furthermore, specialist BCN offered information to women individually, refer patients to other services as needed, and keep a constant presence.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; NEW South Wales; ANALYSIS of variance; ATTITUDE (Psychology); BREAST tumors; ONCOLOGY nursing; JOB descriptions; METASTASIS; NURSE practitioners; NURSES; PATIENTS; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; OCCUPATIONAL roles; SOCIAL support; HUMAN services programs
- Publication
Oncology Nursing Forum, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 6, p627
- ISSN
0190-535X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1188/11.ONF.627-631