Making a difference in the 21st century: are oncology nurses ready?
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D M Boyle
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New identities: the changing profile of patients with cancer, their families, and their professional caregivers.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To discuss and project cancer care needs and a vision of oncology nursing in the next century. DATA SOURCES: Scholarly, professional, and governmental sources of information. DATA SYNTHESIS: Projections of a changed patient/family profile, social support dilemmas, and a new "hybrid" oncology nurse. CONCLUSIONS: Opportunities for nurses, resulting from these projections, include roles as minority needs specialist, director of new care-delivery models, facilitator of intergenerational support teams, overseer of neighborhood-based care systems, multispecialty nursing care provider, cancer care policy activist. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Nursing education, community models, and current care-delivery settings will all be affected by the projected changes and will all need to consider adjusting to meet the demands that will be placed on them to facilitate change.
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Taking command of the future: getting ready now for the 21st century.
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