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Climate Change Should Be on Every Nursing Research Agenda

Rachel K. Walker
Sherily Pereira-Morales
Rachel Kerr
Elizabeth Schenk
ONF 2020, 47(2), 135-144 DOI: 10.1188/20.ONF.135-144
Human-caused climate change is a global emergency, and its harms are predicted to increase exponentially in the coming years, particularly if unsustainable practices continue unmitigated. Adverse effects of climate change on communities affected by or at risk for cancer, such as frail older adults...
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Racial Differences in Pain Management for Patients Receiving Hospice Care

Staja Q. Booker
Keela A. Herr
Cynthia Wilson Garvan
ONF 2020, 47(2), 228-240 DOI: 10.1188/20.ONF.228-240
Objectives: To investigate racial differences in implementation of 11 evidence-based cancer pain management strategies in a matched sample of patients in hospice. Sample & Setting: 32 African American and 32 Caucasian American older adults (aged 65 years or older) with cancer pain receiving...
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Advocacy: The Pivotal Role of Oncology Nurses

Roxanne Blackburn
Kristin G. Johnson
Sandra Chaveleh
CJON 2020, 24(1), 103-106 DOI: 10.1188/20.CJON.103-106
Advocacy, an important component of nursing professional practice, is pivotal to ensuring that nurses’ experience and insight influence public policy. Understanding how to become engaged and receive training to inform that process can support nurses’ professional development. Such engagement...
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Communities

American Indians and Alaska Natives: Resolving Disparate Cancer Outcomes

Emily A. Haozous
CJON 2020, 24(1), 107-110 DOI: 10.1188/20.CJON.107-110
American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) have been documented as a population with high rates of cancer mortality in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups in the United States. During a time when other populations in the United States are experiencing improvements in cancer outcomes,...
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From the Editor

Moving Forward, Together

Debra Lyon
ONF 2020, 47(1), 13-14 DOI: 10.1188/20.ONF.13-14
This past summer, while attending a genetics conference in Bar Harbor, Maine, I was informed that I would be the incoming editor of the Oncology Nursing Forum ( ONF ). Since then, I have tried to coalesce my thoughts to write my first editorial. Bar Harbor in July is as idyllic a setting for...
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