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Neuro-Oncology Nursing

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Neuro-oncology nurses act as patient advocates, signposting for advice, information and support. They liaise with general practitioners (GP’s) and community care teams, and support relatives and carers; they ensure patients have an understanding of their diagnosis and prognosis, whilst trying to ensure they still maintain a degree of hope and supporting them through end-of-life decisions and care; they talk them through treatment options, side effects and intended benefits and they hold treatment clinics and follow-up clinics; they arrange admissions and discharges to aid patient flow and they undertake nurse-led research to improve standards of patient care. Neuro-oncology nurses teach junior doctors and graduate nurses about the specifics of neuro-oncology nursing and they run support groups. In short, neuro-oncology nurses are the lynchpin that holds the service together, and they are their consultant’s right-hand (wo)man.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, CUH Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

    Ingela Oberg

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation, Neurorehabilitation Unit, Habilita S.p.A., Zingonia/Ciserano, Bergamo, Italy

    Michelangelo Bartolo

  2. University and City of Health and Science, Department Neuro-Oncology, Turin, Torino, Italy

    Riccardo Soffietti

  3. Department of Medical Psychology, VU University Medical Center Department of Medical Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Martin Klein

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Oberg, I. (2019). Neuro-Oncology Nursing. In: Bartolo, M., Soffietti, R., Klein, M. (eds) Neurorehabilitation in Neuro-Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95684-8_14

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