The changing hope trajectory in patients with advanced-stage cancer: a nursing perspective.
As patients with advanced-stage cancer move from the initial diagnosis through treatment, remission, recurrence, and advanced-stage disease, the hope trajectory undergoes a dynamic transformation. By identifying the hope trajectory, nurses can help patients focus on obtainable hope objects while balancing the need to present a realistic prognosis. This, in turn, may help patients find meaning and purpose in advanced-stage cancer and facilitate realistic hope when faced with a life-threatening illness.
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of Missouri in Columbia, USA. judithbrownsanders@mchsi.com
Judith Brown
JB
Sanders
Julie S
JS
Seda
Carl G
CG
Kardinal
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research