A perioperative nurse liaison program: CNS interventions for cancer patients and their families Journal Article
| Authors: | Cunningham, M. F.; Hanson-Heath, C.; Agre, P. |
| Article Title: | A perioperative nurse liaison program: CNS interventions for cancer patients and their families |
| Abstract: | Cancer surgery causes stress and anxiety for families and patients. Knowing that communication between family and health care professionals is traditionally fragmented during the perioperative period, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center developed a family-centered program to improve information exchange. This article describes the Perioperative Clinical Nurse Specialist program and the process by which ongoing communication of clinical information and psychosocial support for waiting relatives occurs. Good communication during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative period is characteristic of quality care at a critical time. The subject program serves to bridge the gap in the continuum of perioperative care. |
| Keywords: | united states; outcome assessment; methodology; neoplasm; neoplasms; outcome assessment (health care); social support; cancer center; cancer care facilities; new york city; human relation; professional-family relations; nurse; perioperative nursing; nurse clinicians; humans; human; article; family nursing |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Nursing Care Quality |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| ISSN: | 1057-3631 |
| Publisher: | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| Date Published: | 2003-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 16 |
| End Page: | 21 |
| Language: | English |
| PUBMED: | 12518834 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| DOI/URL: | |
| Notes: | Export Date: 12 September 2014 -- Source: Scopus |
