Opinion of Nurses on Cancer, its Treatment and Curability
A Survey among Nurses in Public Health Service
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11178463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R L Davison, Robin Davison (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-29 |
| Publication date | 1965-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-005X • E-ISSN: 1470-2738 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/jech.19.1.24 |
| PMID | 14261112 |
| OpenAlex | W2009139061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The support of doctors and nurses in their professional and social contacts with laymen is vital to the success of any attempt to foster in the public mind a less fatalistic attitude to those cancers of accessible sites that are potentially curable, and to promote more confidence in the value of early treatment. Moreover, it is important both that the information imparted by doctors and nurses should be of a positive kind likely to relieve needless anxieties, and that their demeanour should reflect their own confidence in the truth of what they say. By virtue of their numbers and their day-to-day duties, nurses in the public health service are in direct contact with a large cross-section of the general public. What they say on matters of health and disease cannot but have a wide influence, and their beliefs and opinions about cancer are consequently of profound importance. In the course of routine in service and initial-training lectures to health visitors, district nurses, and midwives, lecturers from the Manchester Committee on Cancer gained a sub jective impression that many nurses were dissatisfied with the care available to the patient with terminal cancer who is nursed at home, doubtful about the value of much hospital treatment, and despondent about the prognosis even for those cancers of accessible sites that respond well to early treatment. If this impression is well founded, it denotes a serious barrier to any attempt to improve public attitudes to cancer, since such unduly pessimistic views are likely to be passed on to members of the general public. This paper describes the results of an inquiry to test the validity of our impressions of the beliefs and opinions about cancer held by nurses in the public health service
Family medicine · Fatalism · Health care · Pessimism · Politics · Public health · Public opinion · Service (business) · Value (mathematics) · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 1984 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |