Evidence-Based Yoga Interventions for Patients With Cancer.

Background: Introducing patients with cancer to the practice of yoga can be beneficial for coping with the side effects of treatment and the psychological aspects of cancer that are often difficult and distressing for patients. Oncology nurses can learn to use simple yoga techniques for themselves and as interventions with their patients.

Objectives: This article provides details about the development and implementation of a yoga class for patients with cancer and provides details about other ways nurses can integrate yoga into oncology nursing and cancer care.

The Mirror Program: Preparing Women for the Postoperative Mastectomy Mirror-Viewing Experience.

Problem: Preparing women for the experiences they will endure during the breast cancer trajectory improves psychological outcomes and quality of life. Women have found that it may be difficult to view themselves in a mirror after having a mastectomy. Supporting women who have had a mastectomy in mirror-viewing and body image is a relatively new yet important intervention in oncology nursing.

Investigator reflections: A final debriefing following emotionally sensitive mirror research.

Peer debriefing in sensitive qualitative research is important for 2 reasons: study rigor and researcher emotional support. In this case study, the authors share a final debriefing following a study of the experience of viewing self in the mirror after a mastectomy. Each author/researcher shares, in her own words, her recollections of prestudy thoughts about the study.

The experience of viewing oneself in the mirror after a mastectomy.

Purpose/objectives: To describe the experience of viewing oneself in a mirror following a mastectomy.

Research Approach: Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology.

Setting: Three hospitals in a nonprofit healthcare system in the southwestern United States.