Being mindful of one’s implicit bias in the treatment of patients with cancer who have substance use disorders is fundamental to quality of care and good patient outcomes. Implicit bias held by healthcare professionals could negatively affect patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment decisions,...

Background: Family support and patient outcomes are linked to nurses’ attitudes toward families’ importance in patient care. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to characterize inpatient oncology nurses’ attitudes toward families’ importance in nursing care and determine characteristics...

Objectives: To test the feasibility of using psycholinguistic speech analysis as a proxy for cognitive function in men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Sample & Setting: Audio-recorded speech samples were collected from 13 men enrolled in a parent study at the University of Kansas...

Oncology nurses play a key role in supporting caregivers through education and training in both inpatient and outpatient settings. This article describes the learning preferences of informal caregivers of adult care recipients. Caregiver respondents preferred multiple training methods, with most...