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Beyond the Supreme Court Decision: Nursing Perspectives on End-of-Life Care

Betty Ferrell
Rose Virani
Marcia Grant
Patrick Coyne
Gwen Uman
ONF 2000, 27(3), 445-455 DOI: 10.1188/00.ONF.445-455
Purpose/Objectives: To describe nurses' views of care of the terminally ill. Design: Descriptive cross-sectional survey. Sample: 300 nurses who completed a survey published in Nursing98 and Nursing Management and 2,033 nurses randomly selected from the Oncology Nursing Society (N = 2,333). Methods...
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Financial Disclosure: Why We Should Care

Rose Mary Carroll-Johnson
ONF 2000, 27(3), 421 DOI: 10.1188/00.ONF.421
Authors’ financial association with topics and products covered in published articles has received increased attention lately in both the lay and professional press. Initially perceived as primarily a problem for physicians, the availability of money from the private sector (e.g., pharmaceutical...
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Strategies and Barriers in Addressing Mental Health and Suicidality in Patients With Cancer

Leeat Granek
Ora Nakash
Samuel Ariad
Shahar Shapira
Merav Ben-David
ONF 2019, 46(5), 561-571 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.561-571
Purpose: To identify how oncology nurses address mental health distress and suicidality in patients, what strategies they employ in treating this distress, and the barriers they face in addressing distress and suicidality in patients with cancer. Participants & Setting: 20 oncology nurses at...
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Jehovah’s Witness Patients: Interventions for Successful Stem Cell Transplantation Without Blood Product Transfusions for Hematologic Malignancies

Amanda Park
Sandra Rome
Raymond Gantioque
CJON 2019, 23(4), 364-369 DOI: 10.1188/19.CJON.364-369
Background: Jehovah’s Witnesses are members of a religion that prohibits them from accepting blood product transfusions. This refusal makes them a particularly compelling population in the context of hematologic malignancies and stem cell transplantation, because blood product transfusions are a...
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When the Foxes Watch the Henhouse

Rose Mary Carroll-Johnson
ONF 2001, 1507 DOI:
News reports are full of little else these days than our efforts to combat terrorism at home and abroad. We are consumed and focused, and rightly so. I do not see this changing in the foreseeable future, which makes it even more important to remind ourselves of the campaigns we were waging before...
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