Nika van Eeden

Issues

  1. How nursing knowledge and attitudes affect the management of pain within cancer patients Introducton

    Pain is one of the most frequent consequences among patients diagnosed with cancer, but is unfortunately still ineffectively managed by health professionals (Borglin, Gustafsson, & Krona, 2011). This literature review focuses specifically on the pain management of cancer patients because with everything they experience physically and emotionally, pain is something that they deserve to have well managed and not be something they fear. Therefore this review critically considers th…