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Pediatric Oncology Nurses' Management of Patients' Symptoms

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	Abstract

The purpose of this article is to describe the results of a national descriptive survey of 509 pediatric oncology nurses’interventions for managing patients’symptoms. The Nurses’ Distress and Interventions for Symptoms Survey (NDISS) is used to assess nurses’ management of patients’ 7 most distressing symptoms. The average number of symptoms reported as being present is 6.0 (SD 1.3; range, 0-7). Pain is the most commonly reported symptom; trouble sleeping is the least common. The mean score for nurses’ distress is 2.9 (SD 0.8; range, 0-4); nurses’ distress is greatest with trouble sleeping and lowest with hair loss. Nurses use an average of 12.7 interventions to treat each symptom; pain has the greatest number of interventions to treat and hair loss the least. The average perceived effectiveness of interventions across symptoms is 2.5 (SD 0.5; range, 0-4). Pain is perceived as the most effectively treated symptom; fatigue is the least.

First published on September 9, 2008, doi:10.1177/1043454208323294

Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing 2008;25:303.

A more recent version of this article appeared on November 1, 2008


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