Cellular aberration pertains to the abnormal deformation, bleeding, increase in size or internal configuration of a cell attributed to the mutation of chromosomes (DNA) that ultimately leads to a cancer, which disrupts the normal functioning of the organs, tissues or the body, which the cancer infects. Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells grow [...]

Chemotherapy is a medical therapy that use chemicals for the treatment of disease and parasites which is usually used for treating cancer. Different types of “cancer” entails different chemotherapy procedures/ administration using different types of chemotherapeutic agents or chemicals. Nursing care in Chemotherapy starts with a systematic knowledge of the patients condition, objectives of the [...]

Dignity is central in nursing care because nurses primarily deal with the care of humans who have inherent rights and emotions. Dignity is the inherent intrinsic worth of human beings. Christians usually attribute dignity to man’s creation in the likeness or in the image of God. Moreover, human dignity exists in every individual by virtue [...]

The therapeutic relationship is a special relationship between a nurse and a patient which is different from a typical social relation between friends or an intimate relationship between lovers. A therapeutic relationship demands special communication skills, understanding capacity, and personal strengths to improve the client’s development. The emphasis of the relationship is to help the [...]

Nursing ethics refers to the principles or standards that guide or direct appropriate conduct in the practice of the nursing professions particularly in relating or treating humans for the protection of their rights.  In Egypt where majority of the population are Muslims basically adheres to the religious principles of Islam in the establishment of the [...]

Nearly 17 percent of nurses who work in outpatient chemotherapy infusion centers reported being exposed on their skin or eyes to the toxic drugs they deliver, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study surveyed 1,339 oncology nurses from one state who did not work in inpatient hospital [...]

Singapore officially the Republic of Singapore is a Southern Asian city-state of the Southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It is an island country made up of 63 islands. Over the last decade, Singapore’s economy has progressively grown to be the Southeast Asian Goliath that they are today. Investors both local and International are taking [...]

No workplace has escaped the touch of technology, including nursing. Nursing is still, and will always be, a field where technology has had a huge impact on the way that nurses do their job. While some of the technological advances have made the nurse’s job easier, others have been implemented as a price saving measure, [...]

1. Right Drug – Compare the label of the drug container with the doctor’s order three times – Before removing the container from the drawer/shelf – As the amount of ordered drug is removed from the container – Before returning the container to the drawer/shelf or discarding it – Nurse must adminseter only the drugs [...]

1. Give only drugs in liquid form; buccal or sublingual drugs and entric-coated or sustained acction medications should not be crushed and given via NGT; so also with whole or undissolved drugs 2. Dissolve soft, gelatin capsules, crushed tablets and poweders in warm water 3 Irrigate the tube with 50-150 ml of water before and [...]

From August 31 – Septernber 2,2OLL, the 6th Asia.Oceania Conference on Obesity {AOCOI will be held for the first gme in the country at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila. The Philippines through the Philippine Association for the Study of Overweight and Obesity (PASOO) is pleased to be its host. The AOCO is a biennial event [...]

More than half of Sweden’s intensive care nurses doubt that a clinical neurological examination can establish that a patient is brain dead. Intensive care nurses also perceive that this uncertainty can affect relatives when the question of organ donation is raised, is reveiled in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. End-of-life [...]

Nurses and other health care providers are unprepared and uncomfortable when initiating discussions about sexuality with their patients, according to an abstract presented at the 36th Annual Congress of the Oncology Nursing Society by nurses from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Sexual problems often result from the physical and psychological side effects [...]

The head of Phillip Morris International, Louis Camilleri, a long-time smoker, told a cancer nurse that smoking “is not that hard to quit”, during an annual shareholder meeting in New York. He said there are more previous smokers than current smokers in America today. Cancer nurse, Elisabeth Gunersen, from San Francisco was explaining the cost [...]

The drug abiraterone acetate gave men with advanced prostate cancer an average of four months of extra life, according to Phase III trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine today. Abiraterone acetate, trade name Zytiga™, was discovered at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in what is now the Cancer Research UK [...]

The Operating Room Nurses Association of the Philippines, Inc. (ORNAP) will be holding its 37th Annual Convention and Scientific Meeting on 2-3 July 2011 at the Manila Hotel with the theme “Preserving and Protecting the Epitome of Perioperative Nursing Practice Towards Quality Care and patient Safety” More than a thousand of perioperative nurses from various [...]

The fastest way to the hospital may be a helicopter ride. The safest way is with a well-trained acute-care flight nurse with expertise in working in the cramped, noisy, vibrating and extreme hot and cold environment on board the aircraft. To meet the growing demand to fly patients from an accident or disaster scene or [...]

A new study has found that patient deaths from pneumonia and acute myocardial infarction were significantly more likely in hospitals where nurses reported schedules with long work hours. The finding was just one of several revelations from a study of nurses’ work schedules, patient outcomes, and staffing led by University of Maryland School of Nursing [...]