Complementary Medicine and the Role of Oncology Nurses in an Acute Care Hospital: The Gap Between Attitudes and Practice.

CONCLUSIONS: A large discrepancy remains between nurses' strong interest in CM and awareness of associated benefits, and their ambivalence toward its integration in their nursing practice. 
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IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: Although improving nurses' knowledge should be mandatory, it remains insufficient; a shift in the approach to integrating CM into conventional health care is needed, from practitioners' responsibility to healthcare policymakers' responsibility. Legislations and policies are necessary, along with providing respectable infrastructures.
PMID: 28820508 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Oncology Nursing Forum - August 20, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Admi H, Eilon-Moshe Y, Ben-Arye E Tags: Oncol Nurs Forum Source Type: research