Nurses Go Online to Provide Cancer Care

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Nurses Go Online to Provide Cancer Care

Christina Orlovsky, - Many savvy computer users take advantage of online opportunities to research medical symptoms and health concerns. Recognizing the Internet's capability to provide health care content, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing is conducting a pilot study to determine if the computer is also a good communication tool for cancer patients and their nurse caregivers. The Written Representational Intervention to Ease (WRITE) Symptoms study, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, aims to determine if nurse-led education over the Internet can aid in the symptom management of women with recurrent ovarian cancer...

RN.com, 01/26/07

http://w3.rn.com/news_features.asp?articleID=15996

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