Betty Ferrell

..The assessment and management of pain and suffering are guided by an interdisciplinary team focused on goals of comfort and facilitating a death that respects the life of the patient who is dying...

..To review assessment of spiritual needs of family caregivers and four core interventions by nurses in addressing spirituality: presence, deep listening, bearing witness and compassion in action...

..To describe current use of routine analgesics in home care and the treatment of breakthrough pain...

..To describe a program of research related to outcomes of palliative surgery and focus on one phase of this research involving decision making by patients and surgeons considering surgery for advanced disease...

..To address the opportunities for oncology nurses to prepare for and provide palliative care support to cancer patients and families...

..This article discusses the goals of palliative care, the progress that has been made in meeting these goals, and the progress that still needs to be made...

..Improving the quality of supportive oncology will require commitment by oncology professionals in areas of education, clinical practice, and research...

..To date, there has not been a unified or organized effort to broadly address the preparation of nurses in EOL care...

..Inclusion of QOL assessment in practice also is a valuable message to patients that we care about the person with cancer and that QOL is the ultimate goal of oncology practice...

..To describe the nature of suffering and the goals of nursing...

..To describe quality-of-life (QOL) concerns particular to women with ovarian cancer and to examine whether subgroups of patients with ovarian cancer have significantly different QOL concerns...

..This article reviews the work of both the NCP and NQF and presents the domains and preferred practices that should guide quality improvement efforts in hospice and palliative care...

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..Having definitions and concepts shared by scientists in end-of-life care can advance the science and provide an evidence base for practice to improve quality care...

..To explore the topic of moral distress in nurses related to witnessing futile care...

..This organized effort is a major step towards strengthening nursing knowledge in EOL care to improve care of the dying...

..Additional information on genetic testing and counseling for women at-risk due to a family history of ovarian cancer is also needed...

..This report offers a unique analysis of the psychological distress associated with ovarian cancer in a review of natural correspondence between ovarian cancer survivors and an ovarian cancer newsletter...

..Improvement in text content will require collaboration of palliative care professionals and textbook publishers and can result in increased ability of nurses to improve EOL care...

..To describe nurses' views of care of the terminally ill...

..An interdisciplinary palliative care model can effectively link patients to the appropriate supportive care services in a timely fashion. This article describes the role of palliative care for patients with lung cancer...

..Palliative nursing care seeks to change this. This new series challenges nurses to think differently about caring for people when cure isn't possible...

..The participants were mentored/followed for a 12-month period to evaluate their palliative care knowledge as well as challenges encountered...

..To examine the roles of oncology nurses in improving quality care for cancer survivors...

..To describe spirituality and meaning of illness in survivors of ovarian cancer...

..Findings from these assessments demonstrate a positive link between educational initiatives and clinical outcomes...

..The overall objective of this paper was to describe quality of life (QOL) and barriers to pain and fatigue management in patients with colon cancer...

..The overall objective of this study was to test the effects of a clinical intervention on reducing barriers to pain and fatigue management in oncology...

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..Initial evaluation data (N = 276) are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of this innovative educational program...

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..Institutional assessments found improvement in seven domains of care that related to institutional change. This course provided education to participants that led to significant changes in survivorship care in their settings...

..Diagnosis of ovarian cancer often portends a poor prognosis with significant quality-of-life (QOL) concerns...

..b>Betty Ferrell's career and her work at the City of Hope...

..Pain and fatigue are recognized as critical symptoms that impact the quality of life of cancer patients. The barriers to pain and fatigue relief have been classified into three categories: patient, professional, and system barriers...

..The correspondence demonstrates a need in family caregivers to connect with others fighting the same disease. This study also identifies the need for support for at-risk women, as well as a continuing need for palliative-care services...

..Most respondents (89%) disseminated course content to others within their own institutions. PRN-trained nurses expressed improved confidence in pain management and attributed course content to the improvement in their practice behavior...

..To describe the symptom concerns of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and pancreatic cancer and explore the effect of symptoms on patients' quality of life (QOL)...

..Although caregiver concerns cannot always be eradicated, resources and interventions to support family caregivers are vital to improving QOL...

..The purpose of this article is to describe pain-related issues of cancer survivors using case presentations of selected patients enrolled in a randomized trial to eliminate barriers to pain management...

..Excellence in palliative care demands attention to the multidimensional aspects of patient and family suffering, yet too few psycho-oncology professionals report adequate preparation in this vital area...

..Despite increasing attention to end-of-life care in oncology, palliative surgery (PS) remains poorly defined. A survey to test the definition, assess the extent of use, and evaluate attitudes and goals of surgeons regarding PS was devised...

..Phase 2, the intervention model, is designed to decrease these barriers and improve patient outcomes over time, and is in progress...

..The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care includes spiritual care as one of the eight clinical practice domains. There are very few standardized spirituality history tools...

..The City of Hope Quality of Life (COH-QOL)-Ostomy Questionnaire is an adult patient self-report instrument designed to assess quality of life. This report focuses on the revision and psychometric testing of this questionnaire...

..The purpose of this descriptive study was to describe health-related quality of life (HRQOL) concerns among cancer patients with continent urinary diversion (UD) and incontinent UD...

..The purpose of this study was to describe QOL issues of colostomy patients and compare these issues in cancer and non-cancer participants...

..Phase II of this initiative will attempt to eliminate these barriers using the "Passport" intervention to manage cancer pain...

..These national guidelines can serve as a roadmap to develop clinical services that will serve patients and families...

..This article presents evaluation data from the 2007 pilot ELNEC-Geriatric Training Program and follow-up evaluation of the "train-the-trainer" model to disseminate comprehensive palliative care education in geriatric settings...

..Systematic provision of compassionate end-of-life (EOL) care requires strategic training of health professionals. Disseminating EOL Education to Cancer Centers (DELEtCC) targeted education of interdisciplinary institutional teams...

..Numerous opportunities occur throughout the treatment process to improve the delivery of biopsychosocial-spiritual support to women receiving IP chemotherapy...

..Opportunities are available to clinicians for understanding and applying appropriate palliative and end-of-life care to patients with serious and life-threatening cancers...

..Significant attention was dedicated to complementary and alternative therapies, both for symptom management and with curative intent. Findings demonstrate the need to improve diagnostic tests, symptom management, and patient education...

..This initial conference laid the foundation for the next two meetings, which will address the research designs and collaborations needed to enhance therapeutic and intervention trials in older adults with cancer...

..Through narratives of patients, nurses, and family caregivers this paper explores the experience of pain...

..To test the effectiveness of a bilingual education intervention to improve the quality of life (QOL) of Latina breast cancer survivors (BCSs) after completing primary treatment for breast cancer...

..Additional research is needed to extend these findings and identify interventions to support positive outcomes of GCRA...

..QOL may be affected by the disease itself as well as by surgical and chemotherapeutic treatments. Future studies of the care and treatment of EOC patients should include well-designed QOL evaluations...

..To describe the clinical, education, and research roles of professional nurses caring for family caregivers. DATA SCORES: Review of literature and Websites on the professional nursing role and family caregivers...

..The importance of the oncology nurse's assessment of FCGs' needs for support, education, and self-care through the lung cancer illness trajectory is discussed while presenting accessible community resources to meet those needs...

..Validation of these variables as meaningful will require future studies focusing on patient outcomes...

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..The CPEPP curriculum was designed to address the multiple opportunities for pain education and to provide resources and support for successful implementation...

..Finally, this education program may result in a heightened awareness of hospice care and, although not objectively quantified, perhaps an increase in referrals to hospice...

..We prospectively evaluated the effectiveness of major surgery in treating symptoms of advanced malignancies...

..The methods used in this project have potential application for the measurement of other clinical outcomes after outpatient surgical procedures...

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..The analysis has implications for educators to promote improved end-of-life (EOL) care in their own institutions...

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..Clearly, nurses play a key role in improving the care of the dying in America...

..This article presents the didactic content of symptom assessment and management, and the experiential experiences used in a nondrug laboratory within the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) curriculum...

..The ultimate goal is to improve EOL care for patients in all critical care settings and enhance the experience of family members witnessing the dying process of their loved ones...

..However, little attention is devoted to palliative care in most graduate nursing curricula, leaving advanced practice nurses poorly prepared to meet the needs of those approaching the end of their lives...

..Palliative operations effectively improve symptom frequency and distress without greatly affecting the expected decline in QOL and its parameters...

..This study sought to determine quality of life and symptom concerns in lung cancer patients. The study also sought to determine how supportive care resources were being used to address these concerns...

..For each, we outline salient issues and suggest recommendations for enhancing the ethics of MBO studies, including interventional trials...

..The nature of the interactions, however, was different, suggesting that resource needs are different and may need to be anticipated in the assessment of how better quality outcomes can be achieved in the palliative surgery setting...

..This course will impact 120 healthcare settings to improve pain management and quality of life in cancer patients and to establish model pain education programs for national dissemination. ..

..This proposal includes extensive evaluation planned to monitor individual and institutional dissemination. ..

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..This proposal includes extensive evaluation planned to monitor individual and institutional dissemination. ..

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