What are common fears that patients and families might have with a diagnosis of bone cancer or metastases? How can the readings help you address those?
The treatment of bone pain ideally should be multi-modal and inter-disciplinary. What do you see or think might be barriers to that occurring?
Do you think that patients and families view radiotherapy as invasive or non-invasive? How might that view impact the treatment experience?
Radiotherapy is not a modality that is focused on in undergraduate nursing education – how do you think nurses in practice that might care for these patients in non-oncology units be educated?
The article that discusses the Roy Adaptation Model approach lists nursing interventions – are they realistic choices? How helpful is using the model to framework nursing care of patients with bone pain?
