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Cancer Pain Management Scenarios
Pain related to cancer impacts all of your patients, no matter the stage or type of disease. As a result, cancer pain management becomes a strong focus of your practice and you need strategies and information to help your patients cope with this common–and sometimes complicated–issue. In Cancer Pain Management Scenarios, you’ll also be exposed to a wide variety of scenarios–from a 42-year-old woman with non-small cell lung cancer to a 71-year-old woman with metastatic urothelial cancer. Other scenarios describe diseases and situations such as prostate cancer, lung cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, chronic lower back and post-thoracotomy pain, and metastatic cancer pain. Order now!

Understanding and Managing Oncologic Emergencies: A Resource for Nurses
The second edition of Understanding and Managing Oncologic Emergencies: A Resource for Nurses provides nurses and other healthcare providers with a comprehensive resource on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of common oncologic emergencies. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of this crucial resource continues to provide a definitive and practical one-stop guide to understanding and managing oncologic emergencies, with the nursing perspective in mind. Order now!

Current Trends in Oncology Nursing
In her new book, Judith Payne details current trends in oncology nursing, while looking back at the history of the profession, and looking forward to the new challenges ahead. The first book to identify and conceptualize significant trends in the care of patients with cancer, Current Trends in Oncology Nursing provides an overview and history of oncology nursing as well as an examination of the current trends in the profession. Order your copy now!

Putting Evidence Into Practice: Improving Oncology Patient Outcomes - Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Interventions for Pain
You can now access the latest findings and information on cancer-related pain in the newly updated and revised Putting Evidence Into Practice: Improving Oncology Patient Outcomes – Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Interventions for Pain Resource. Written by Margaret M. Irwin, PhD, RN, MN, Jeanine Brant, PhD, APRN, AOCN^®, and Linda Eaton, MN, RN AOCN^®, this new resource collects content from the pain chapter in Putting Evidence Into Practice: Improving Oncology Patient Outcomes, first published in 2009, combined with new details and research on the topic. Order now!

Putting Evidence Into Practice: Improving Oncology Patient Outcomes - Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting Resource
Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV) is one of the most common symptoms suffered by patients with cancer, and has been detailed in a wide selection of literature – from journal articles to book chapters – including a book chapter in Putting Evidence Into Practice: Improving Oncology Patient Outcomes. You can now access the latest findings and information on CINV in the newly updated and revised Putting Evidence Into Practice: Improving Oncology Patient Outcomes - Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting Resource. Order now!

Cancer and Complementary Medicine: Your Guide to Smart Choices in Symptom Management
Help your patients make the smart choices about complementary therapies! A diagnosis of cancer can have devastating effects – not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well – leading patients to look for "cures" or relief from the side effects and symptoms that ravage their minds and bodies. Often, your patients will turn to complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), looking for a "safe" or "natural" solution to their ailments. While these treatments may promise relief from pain or some other debilitating symptom, they also have the potential to cause as much harm as any drug could inflict. Order now!

Telephone Triage for Oncology Nurses - 2nd Edition
As the care of patients with cancer has shifted from the inpatient arena to the outpatient setting, the traditional role of the nurse has been challenged. Nurses both in outpatient clinics and physicians' offices have frequently found themselves performing assessments and providing triage and advice over the telephone.This text is designed as a resource for oncology nurses who are learning the telephone nursing role as well as a guide those developing a formalized telephone nursing practice. Order now!

Nurturance for Nurses: Reflections for Compassionate Healers
Introducing a perpetual flip calendar from Deborah A. Boyle, RN, MSN, AOCNS^®, FAAN and Hygeia Media - an imprint of the Oncology Nursing Society. This unique reference of daily reflections for nurses offers inspiration, sustenance, and a means of validating the nurse's emotionally charged world. You can use Nurturance for Nurses: Reflections for Compassionate Healers year-after-year as a way to rejuvenate yourself and as a way to motivate yourself and your colleagues in nursing. Order now!

Caring for the Older Adult with Cancer in the Ambulatory Setting
As the general population continues to age, more patients are being diagnosed and living with cancer at an older age than ever before. Healthcare professionals are faced with unique challenges in treating the older patient with cancer, and this new text from Diane G. Cope and Lorraine K. McEvoy examines, in detail, issues surrounding caring for this population type. If you are working in ambulatory setting where you are likely to encounter older adults with cancer, you'll want to add this book to your nursing library. Order now!

Self-Healing Through Reflection: A Workbook for Nurses
In their new workbook from Hygeia Media, Nancy Jo Bush and Deborah A. Boyle offer you information, exercises, and tools for self-reflection to better help you cope with the stressors that invade your personal and professional lives so you can provide yourself with the same level of care as you do your patients. Order now!

Now Available! After You Ring the Bell . . . 10 Challenges for the Cancer Survivor
For patients with cancer and their healthcare team, the “ringing of the bell” is a significant moment – a point in time that signals the end of active treatment and the beginning of a life free of cancer. What happens, though, to the patient with cancer after the bell has rung? Anne Katz explores what happens next for those who have survived cancer. Order now!

New! Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personalized Care
This new book, edited by Joanne Lester and Patricia Schmitt, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the physical, psychosocial, and practical aspects of survivorship. You’ll find information on survivorship care, including personalized cancer care and survivorship care planning. You'll also gain insight into the physical and psychological challenges faced by survivors, with details on physical symptoms ranging from pain and discomfort to sexuality and reproductive issues as well psychological challenges such as dealing with anxiety and depression and the role spirituality plays in survivorship. Order here today.