Nursing Research and Education

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Nursing Research and Education

The Division of Nursing Research and Education is nationally renowned for its collaborative, multidisciplinary scientific studies on oncologycare. The research program is organized around two major themes: quality of life and symptom management. Studies range from diagnosis and treatment to survivorship and end-of-life care, providing valuable insights in cancer control and population science. Research conducted by this division has improved the care delivered to patients throughout the nation.

Research Objectives

Conducting collaborative research studies on quality of life and/or symptom management in City of Hope’s targeted areas: prostate, colorectal,pancreatic, ovarian,breast and lung cancers; leukemia, lymphoma and other hematologic disorders.

Providing nursing research presence and expertise at all Cancer Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee and Institutional Review Board meetings.

Exploring strategies for nurse retention, with an emphasis on decreasing the stress of working with a cancer patient population.

Expanding research participation and evidence-based practice activities toward achieving Magnet Status criteria.

Disseminating findings of research studies, including information available on palliative/end-of-life care and survivorship, to those at City of Hope and throughout the United States.

Programs for Health Professionals

City of Hope’s Division of Nursing Research and Education conducts interdisciplinary research organized around the quality of life and symptom management of oncology patients. Multiple courses are offered throughout the year to health professionals from across the country.

Current Research

Goal 1
Describe the effects of cancer and cancer treatment on quality of life and symptoms in cancer patients throughout the trajectory of disease.

Ongoing studies include:

Describing quality of life in colorectal cancer survivors with stomas;
Overcoming barriers to pain and fatigue management in medical oncology patients;
Describing quality of life, symptoms and management in children with advanced cancer;
Describing nursing staff and patient involvement with complementary and alternative medicine;
Describing illness perception, pain and symptom distress in gastrointestinal cancers.

Goal 2

Test interventions to improve quality of life and symptom management for cancer patients from diagnosis and throughout treatment, survivorship and end of life care.

Ongoing studies include:

Testing an intervention to improve quality of life in ovarian cancer patients;
Testing a nursing intervention protocol for discharged HCT patients;
Testing an intervention to decrease barriers to pain and fatigue management in medical oncology patients;
Testing an intervention to improve adherence to oral chemotherapy;
Testing a mindful movement intervention to improve quality of life in older breast cancer survivors;
Testing a patient navigation intervention for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.

Goal 3

Develop and disseminate curricula on palliative/end-of-life care and survivorship for health professions involved in cancer patient care.

Ongoing studies include:

Disseminating end-of-life education to cancer centers;
Targeting multidisciplinary teams;
Disseminating the end-of-life curriculum for the undergraduate nursing curriculum, the graduate nursing curriculum, oncology nurses, pediatric nurses, critical care nurses and geriatric nurses;
Disseminating and evaluating survivorship education for multidisciplinary teams caring from cancer patients;
Disseminating and evaluating transdisciplinary palliative care education for psycho-oncology professionals through four annual courses and a reunion conference.

Upcoming Conferences

Upcoming Nursing Research Conferences

2013 National ELNEC Courses Announced

ELNEC-Advanced Practice Registered Nurses

November 5-6, 2013
Washington, D.C.
Registration Form

View the announcement, flyer, ELNEC-APRN FAQs, Agenda,and Faculty

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Three national ELNEC-Core train-the-trainer courses will be held in collaboration with HPNA:

ELNEC-Core Train-the-Trainer

May 14-15, 2013
St. Louis, Missouri

ELNEC-Core Train-the-Trainer and ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care

July 30-31, 2013
Boston, MA

ELNEC-Core Train-the-Trainer

October 8-9, 2013
Lake Buena Vista (Orlando) FL
Click here to access registration forms, agenda, and faculty listing for each of these courses.

ELNEC-Critical Care Train-the-Trainer

November 5-6, 2013
Washington, DC

Click here for registration form.

Improving Quality of Life and Quality of Care for Oncology Family Caregivers

For more information and to register, visit the Family Caregiver page.

Anaheim, CA - July 10 to 12, 2013
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Pain Resource Nurse (PRN) Training Course
For more information, visit the course website.

Duarte, CA - September 5 to 7, 2012
Applications now closed

Preparing Professional Nurses for Cancer Survivorship Care

For more information, visit the course website.
Tarrytown, NY - September 27 to 29, 2013
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Current Research

Find out more about the primary research goals of the division.

Research Departments and Divisions

Research at City of Hope is conducted within major basic science departments of Beckman Research Institute along with clinical research departments and divisions.