Mitigation of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea Using Adjunct Music Listening: A Pilot Study.

The persistence of chemotherapy-induced nausea (CIN) underscores the need to consider nonpharmacologic treatments such as music listening as adjunct interventions. This pilot study investigated the feasibility and overall effects of a 30-minute adjunct music listening intervention in 12 patients experiencing CIN. Music listening was started at the time participants took their as-needed antiemetic medication, and it was repeated as needed during the 5 days after chemotherapy.

Barriers to Implementation of Music Listening Interventions for Cancer-Related Phenomena: A Mapping Review.

Despite music listening interventions (MLIs) being recommended in multiple clinical practice guidelines, implementation into oncology clinical practice sites has been slow. This mapping review aimed to critique and identify barriers to MLI clinical implementation, as well as offer practical solutions for both clinicians and researchers. A PRISMA-based mapping review of MLI literature was performed using CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases.

Incorporating Music-Listening Interventions into Clinical Nursing Practice.

A call to expand the study and use of this effective adjunct therapy.

Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting Mitigation With Music Interventions .

Problem Identification: Despite three decades of studies examining music interventions as a mitigant of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), to date, no systematic review of this literature exists.
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Literature Search: PubMed, Scopus, PsycInfo®, CINAHL®, Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar were searched.

Trajectory of Dyspnea and Respiratory Distress among Patients in the Last Month of Life.

Background: The trajectory of dyspnea has been reported among patients approaching the end of life. However, patients near death have been dropped from longitudinal studies or excluded altogether because of an inability to self-report; proxy estimates have been reported. It is not known whether dyspnea or respiratory distress remains stable, escalates, or abates as patients reach last days.

Genetic Influence on Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting: A Narrative Review.

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a phenomenon common to patients being treated for a solid or hematologic malignancy. This adverse effect to cancer treatment persists in about half of all patients receiving highly emetogenic treatment, despite prophylaxis with serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine-3 [5-HT3]) antagonists, steroids, and additional agents. Two broad categories increase risk for CINV: the emetogenic potential of chemotherapeutic drugs and patient-specific risk factors, such as younger age, female gender, low or no alcohol intake, and history of motion sickness or pregnancy-induced nausea.

Cancer as a Platform for Genetics Education in the Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum.

Background: Nursing leaders and governing agencies have long requested more genetic content in the undergraduate nursing curriculum. Despite this, evidence in the literature detailing how to meet this objective is scarce.

Method: Using a familiar health condition such as cancer, undergraduate nursing students are introduced to the multiple genetic abnormalities that underlie the cellular dysregulation leading to carcinogenesis.