Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care
Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care Editor by:
Meredith Wallace PhD APRN-BC
Lorrie Powel PhD RN
Prostate Cancer Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care Book Description
Southern Connecticut State Univ. Developed by clinical nurse experts, this text provides information on the state-of-the-art care of men with prostate cancer. Covers symptoms, diagnostic methods, treatment options, and psychosocial effects of this disease. Quality of life is a major focus. DNLM: Prostatic Neoplasms--nursing.
Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care Book Author
Meredith Wallace, PhD, APRN-BC, has been a nurse since she completed her BSN nursing degree Magna Cum Laude at Boston University in 1988. Following this, she earned an MSN in medical-surgical nursing with a specialty in geriatrics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in nursing research and theory development at New York University. During her time at NYU she was awarded a predoctoral fellowship at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. In this capacity she became the original author and editor of Try This: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing series. In 2001, she won the Springer Publishing Company Award for Applied Nursing Research. She was the Managing Editor of the Journal of Applied Nursing Research and is currently the research brief editor for the journal. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Wallace published Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment Management and Care, (Springer Publishing Company, 2002), which won the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. Preceding this, she was the Associate Editor of The Geriatric Nursing Research Digest, which also won the AJN Book of the Year Award in 2002. She is the recent recipient of the Eastern Nursing Research Society/John A. Hartford Foundation junior investigator award. Dr. Wallace currently an Associate Professor and the Elizabeth DeCamp McInerney Chair in Health Sciences at Fairfield University School of Nursing.
Lorrie L. Powel, PhD, RN, is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Boston University School of Public Health and the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts. She recently completed her doctoral degree at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she received a dissertation award from the Health Care Financing Administration for her research focusing on the impact of postprostectomy urinary incontinence on psychosocial adjustment to illness and quality of life. Her current research, funded by the Department of Defense, will continue to explore postprostatectomy incontinence with a focus on ethnic identity. During the past several decades Dr. Powel has been a frequent contributor to the oncology nursing literature focusing on issues of quality of life and the management of treatment-related symptoms in patients with cancer.
Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care Book Details
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (May 15, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0826187455
- ISBN-13: 978-0826187451
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care
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