Cancer Biology and Therapeutics

Issues In Oncology Nursing

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In the Oncology background, Nursing professionals maintain a close contact with situations of pain, fainted and death, physical and emotional side effects, among these hopelessness, misery, fear and loneliness, intense and criticize feelings of human delicacy, at the same time that an expectation of curing the disease may be present

Oncology is an area of stable ethical problems, experienced from situations already considered part of the efficient period, such as lack of informed approval of patients before diagnostic and beneficial procedures, the extension of life without concern for its quality, and suspicious and heteronomical professional practices Regarding the increased use of technologies and medicines for treating Oncological patients who no longer respond to available therapies, professionals much experience the life extension of the patient without reacting or positioning.

All these situations revive the need of assistance in health by the nurses, an essential part of the nursing care related to the defense of the rights and interests of patients, avoiding patients and their families to be exposed to a variety of situations that cause suffering. though, health advocacy actions, performed by nurses in oncological and palliative care, can be defined as assisting patients and families to overcome the difficulties delay the path of care, informing and clarifying them as well as defending their choices and acting as a link between them and the health staff.