title: Research and oncology nursing practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To trace the evolution of oncology nursing research and to discuss its contribution to oncology nursing practice and health care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Articles, textbooks, organizational documents, conference proceedings, and personal communication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Placing research in perspective will help suggest where we should go as a nursing specialty to provide excellent cancer care to patients, families, communities, and populations. It will also suggest directions for research priorities and for conceptual, methodologic, and health policy activities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To influence oncology care, it is essential that oncology nurse researchers be responsive to trends that are relevant to both the conduct and utilization of oncology nursing research.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: McGuire
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Ropka
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D009859:Oncology Nursing