TY - JOUR
T1 - Nursing workforce issues
T2 - Strategically positioning nurses to facilitate cancer prevention and control
AU - Dallred, Carol Vreeland
AU - Dains, Joyce E.
AU - Corrigan, Gwen
N1 - Funding Information:
These programs are supported in part by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas through MD Anderson’s Cancer Center Grant #P100153.
Funding Information:
The Professional Education for Prevention and Early Detection (PEPED) program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has developed two approaches to educational programs for nurses who affect community outreach and clinical practice. The first program is supported in part by a grant from The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) so that PEPED may conduct educational outreach programs in communities throughout Texas. The goal is to decrease the burden of cancers in rural and medically underserved areas of Texas by improving cancer screening knowledge, skills, and management practices of nurses and advanced practice nurses in those areas.
PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - The number of cancer survivors is increasing, but at a staggering cost. These costs can be reduced or contained by preventing cancer and its recurrence. Nurses play a critical role in cancer prevention, a role that will rapidly expand as the number of oncology specialists decreases. It is crucial, therefore, that nurses increase their involvement in cancer prevention. To prepare nurses for this larger role, educational programs in cancer prevention and detection must be instituted for all nurses, particularly those in rural and medically underserved areas. The Professional Education for Prevention and Early Detection program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has developed two nurse education programs: outreach programs for nurses involved in the community and in-house programs for those in clinical practice. These approaches have proven to be enormously effective in developing the nursing workforce as agents of cancer prevention.
AB - The number of cancer survivors is increasing, but at a staggering cost. These costs can be reduced or contained by preventing cancer and its recurrence. Nurses play a critical role in cancer prevention, a role that will rapidly expand as the number of oncology specialists decreases. It is crucial, therefore, that nurses increase their involvement in cancer prevention. To prepare nurses for this larger role, educational programs in cancer prevention and detection must be instituted for all nurses, particularly those in rural and medically underserved areas. The Professional Education for Prevention and Early Detection program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has developed two nurse education programs: outreach programs for nurses involved in the community and in-house programs for those in clinical practice. These approaches have proven to be enormously effective in developing the nursing workforce as agents of cancer prevention.
KW - Cancer education
KW - Cancer prevention
KW - Community cancer prevention
KW - Early detection
KW - Kirkpatrick model
KW - Nurses and community
KW - Nursing workforce development
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U2 - 10.1007/s13187-012-0326-3
DO - 10.1007/s13187-012-0326-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 22298196
AN - SCOPUS:84863724766
SN - 0885-8195
VL - 27
SP - S144-S148
JO - Journal of Cancer Education
JF - Journal of Cancer Education
IS - SUPPL. 2
ER -