Overview
- First book to describe specific nursing knowledge and approaches required in the field of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer care
- Provides a framework and practical advice on development and implementation of AYA cancer nursing care in order to guide best practice
- Supports formal nursing education programs, training and development in practice specific to this specialist nursing field
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History of the Speciality and AYA Nursing Competence Development
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Approaches, Interventions and Innovations in AYA Cancer Nursing
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Aspects and Challenges for Future AYA Cancer Nursing
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About this book
During the last decade, AYA have gained increased attention in healthcare. Today, it is recognized that AYA with cancer have distinct needs that are different to both children and older adults. Young people are in a unique developmental and transitional phase of their lives; thus, their treatment, perspectives and experie
nces have been addressed in research and the body of knowledge is growing accordingly. Some books are available that describe AYA cancer care, service delivery and aspects of age appropriate care but this volume will be the first to focus on how nurses contribute to AYA cancer care in practice. It will appeal to the AYA clinical nurses in cancer care, as well as to multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and healthcare professionals who support formal nursing education programmes, training and development in practice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pia Riis Olsen became a registered nurse in 1980, received her MScN in 2001, and her PhD in 2009. She is a Clinical nurse specialist in Oncology since 2004, currently in the Oncology Department at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. She is connected to the Youth Unit and her key research areas focus on Caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer and Network Focused Nursing. She participated to eight International publications on the topic of ‘Adolescents and young adults with cancer’ since 2009, and has been awarded for the Best Original Research Paper in Cancer Nursing in 2010.
She is a reviewer for several international scientific journals, has authored professional chapters and she was the editor of two published books in Danish (2012, 2015). She regularly speaks at international conferences. Pia Riis Olsen is a Member of the European Network of Teenager and Young Adults with Cancer (ENTYAC), and a Board member of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS).
Sam Smith is a qualified paediatric nurse and a specialist practitioner with twenty years of clinical experience, and a nurse consultant for teenagers and young adults. She advises both nationally and internationally on teenage and young adult cancer and is a Board member of various national and international cancer, nursing, policy and research groups. She led and developed UK and European leadership programmes in AYA cancer care; led, developed and published first Nursing competence and career framework in AYA cancer nursing. Sam Smith is also the Editor and author of The Blueprint of Care (AYA Cancer) (2012), and she is an invited speaker at over 50 national and international conferences. She has been awarded by the European Oncology Nursing Society “Lifetime Achievement Award” 2015 in recognition of leading the development of AYA cancer nursing specialty.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nursing Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
Book Subtitle: Developing Knowledge, Competence and Best Practice
Editors: Pia Riis Olsen, Sam Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73555-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73554-2Published: 12 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08810-1Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73555-9Published: 30 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 238
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
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Topics: Nursing Management, Oncology, Pediatrics, Nursing Research