A Theory of Cancer Care in Healthcare Settings

ISBN-13: 9781138643765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 172 str.

Carol Cox; Maya Zumstein-Shaha

Opis

This book provides healthcare professionals with a practice theory for the care and management of patients who have been diagnosed with cancer. Developing an original theory of ‘The Omnipresence of Cancer’, it explores patients’ feelings and experiences, their coping strategies and how healthcare professionals can assist.

O autorze

Dr Maya Shaha is a senior lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr Shaha teaches nursing theory and also supervises students studying at Masters and Doctoral level. Dr Shaha also serves as a scientific collaborator in the Department of Nursing Development of the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital in Switzerland.

Dr Carol L. Cox is a Professor Emeritus at City University, London. She has been involved in teaching and research at various universities in the United Kingdom, Norway and the United States of America since 1987. Dr Cox practices as a nurse and instructs students and recent graduates (nursing, medicine, pharmaceutical and physiotherapy) at the Health and Hope Clinic in Pensacola, Florida, USA.