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Professional Organization Membership: The Benefits of Increasing Nursing Participation

Debbie Cline
Kimberly Curtin
Patricia A. Johnston
CJON 2019, 23(5), 543-546 DOI: 10.1188/19.CJON.543-546
Membership in professional organizations is a way for professionals with similar objectives to join together to have the voice of many, versus the voice of one. Joining an organization can lead to personal growth, enhanced professional prospective and knowledge development, and support for creating...
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Shared Decision Making: Improving Patient Outcomes by Understanding the Benefits of and Barriers to Effective Communication

Beth Faiman
Joseph D. Tariman
CJON 2019, 23(5), 540-542 DOI: 10.1188/19.CJON.540-542
Shared decision making (SDM) is a healthcare delivery model that mandates patient-centered care for clinical practice. Practicing SDM ensures that patients and family caregivers are engaged in making decisions about their care and treatment with healthcare providers. This article reviews the...
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Social Media and Scholarly Publication: What Is the Connection?

Anne Katz
ONF 2019, 46(5), 517-518 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.517-518
A recent post on The Scholarly Kitchen website got me thinking about the role of social media in my professional life. I have young adult children who keep me in the loop about social trends to some extent. They instructed me to join Facebook many years ago and, since then, I have remembered...
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In Their Own Words: Experiences of Caregivers of Adults With Cancer as Expressed on Social Media

Rosaleen D. Bloom
Susan Beck
Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou
Maija Reblin
Lee Ellington
ONF 2019, 46(5), 617-630 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.617-630
Purpose: To explore caregivers’ writings about their experiences caring for adult individuals with cancer on a social media health communication website. Participants & Setting: Journal entries (N = 392) were analyzed for 37 adult caregivers who were posting on behalf of 20 individuals with...
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How Is Hope Reimagined at the End of Life?

Nicole Brashear
CJON 2019, 23(4), 448 DOI: 10.1188/19.CJON.448
While working as a women’s health nurse practitioner (NP) in the obstetric and gynecologic setting for 10 years, I found life circumstances steering my family and I to relocate. An opportunity arose for me to change gears and enter the world of women’s health oncology. After seven months in my new...
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