The Phenomenon of Oncology Nurses’ Tendency to Change Duties in Greek Public Hospitals: A Study of Its Causes and Suggestions

Background: The concept of job satisfaction is of great importance regarding its impact on employees’ productivity and efficiency. Especially for oncology nurses has become apparent over the past decades that job satisfaction is a determinant factor not only for the quality of services they provide but also of their tendency to change duties and resign from workplace. While this phenomenon is vastly described by the literature, no survey that investigates nursing personnel’s tendency to resign from workplace has been conducted in Greece. Objectives: To investigate oncology nurses’ job satisfaction while examining the causes of their dissatisfaction in regard to their tendency to change duties, either by departing from the oncology field or by resigning. Material and Method: Using a structured questionnaire, a survey was conducted in four hospitals in the region of Attica that fall within the Greek National Health System, ESY. The research sample comprised 278 oncology nurses, men and women, with varied work experience. The data were analyzed using the SPSS software, applying descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and Principal Component Analysis. Results: Our findings concerning participants’ job satisfaction were mainly positive. Most of the oncology nurses partaking in the study expressed their willingness to remain in their current workplace, as their placements enable them to diffuse in their tasks the knowledge and experience previously acquired. Conclusion: As oncology nurses’ job satisfaction influences their overall performance and dedication in their profession, parameters as working conditions, equal distribution of the workload, independent decision making and seniors’ management recognition of their work, need to be considered as primarily fields of improvement. With this being the first study in Greece that investigates oncology nurses’ job satisfaction in relation to their tendency to change duties, further research is required for the containment of said phenomenon.

Community-Based Oncology Nursing:Current Status and Prospects-A Secondary Publication

Objective:Currently,it is difficult to determine whether a comprehensive and systematic community-based cancer care project is properly implemented.The purpose of this article is to present the current status and prospects of community-based oncology nursing by reviewing related literature.Methods:A new cancer care model was established through the analysis of existing models and a literature review of community-based cancer prevention,cancer screening,cancer survivor care,and cancer patient hospice care.Results:The Comprehensive Cancer Care Model(CCCM)was esrablished.The CCCM organizes the stages of cancer treatment and the cancer journey on the horizontal axis.On the vertical axis,public health centers,oncology hospitals,cancer convalescent hospitals,primary care physicians,and prayer centers were involved.The levels of participation of human resources among institutions and the degree of interconnection between organizations was observed.Conclusion:It is expected that CCCM will be used for holistic,sustainable,and cost-effective cancer management.In community-based oncology nursing,the team of health promotion nurses in public health centers is in charge of population-based cancer prevention and early detection programs,while the visiting health management team of nurses is in charge of individual-based cancer survivor and hospice programs.

Developing a tool for nurses to assess risk of infection in pediatric oncology patients in China:a modified Delphi study

Infections are identified as the most common preventable cause of death in pediatric oncology patients. Assessing and stratifying risk of infections are essential to prevent infection in these patients. To date, no tool can fulfill this demand in China. This study aimed to develop a nursing work-based and Chinese-specific tool for pediatric nurses to assess risk of infection in oncology patients. This research was a modified Delphi study. Based on a literature review, a 37-item questionnaire rating on a 0-5 scale was developed. Twenty-four experts from 8 hospitals in 6 provinces of China were consulted for three rounds. Consensus for each item in the first round was defined as： the rating mean was 〉 3 and the coefficient of variation （CV） was 〈 0.5. Consensus for each item in the second round was defined as CV 〈 0.3. Consensus among experts was defined as： P value of Kendall＇s coefficient of concordance （W） 〈 0.05. After three rounds of consultation, a two-part tool was developed： the Immune Status Scale （ISS） and the Checklist of Risk Factors of Infection （CRFI）. There were 5 items in the ISS and 14 in the CRFI. Based on the ISS score, nurses could stratify children into the low-risk and high-risk groups. For high-risk children, nurses should screen risk factors of infection every day by the CRFI, and twice weekly for low-risk children. Further study is needed to verify this tool＇s efficacy.

Care Technologies in Nursing for People with Colorectal Neoplasia: Integrative Review

Objective: Identifying in the literature the care technologies used by nurses for people with colorectal neoplasia on Nietzsche’s conceptual perspective. Method: It consists in an integrative review of the literature held in the database: Latin-American Literature and Caribbean in medical health sciences Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Database in Nursing, US National Library of Medicine, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, Scopus Info Site and Web of Science in December 2015. Results: 28 articles were selected to compose the final sample of this review, which were analyzed and categorized in management technology (86.20%), assistance technology (20.68%) and educational technology (10.34%). Studies published in the last five years have predominated (62.06%), in international territory (82.75%) and with evidence level IV (44.82%). Conclusion: Today the growth on the production about this theme has been highlighted, but there is an important discrepancy between the researches with high and low level of scientific evidence, showing the need of more studies about technologies that strengthen the experience of nursing.

Sociodemographic Characteristics Related to Resistance to Breast Cancer Screening

Objective: To describe the sociodemographic characteristics of women related to resistance to breast cancer. Methods: Cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, whose research took place in the Basic Family Health Units of the municipality of Mossoró. The study included 362 women aged between 40 and 69 years. One used a validated questionnaire with questions divided into five blocks. The data were entered in a spreadsheet, transferred to the SPSS software, and subsequently coded to perform the analysis. The Research Ethics Committee of the State University of Rio Grande do Norte, in Opinion No. 356958, approved the project. Results: Black women were two times more likely to be resistant when compared to white women (OR = 2.01, 95% CI = 1.12 - 3.69;p = 0.018). Women who have studied up to primary school 122 (58.1%) were two times more likely to be resistant when compared to those 14 (6.7%) who studied up to higher education (OR = 2.69;95% CI = 1.31 - 5.48;p = 0.012). Women who had first-degree relatives with breast cancer 153 (72.9%) were three times more likely to be resistant. Conclusions: The findings show the need for investments in educational practices with a view to public awareness and professionals’ training to disseminate information regarding tests used in practice directed to women’s health.