Ready to Go Home? Nurses' Perspectives of Prolonged Admission for Patients Undergoing Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer in Denmark.

Enhanced recovery after surgery programs with median postoperative hospitalization of 2 days improve outcomes after lung cancer surgery. This article explores nursing care practices for patients with lung cancer who remain hospitalized despite having recovered somatically. Qualitative focus group interviews were conducted with 16 nurses.

Do enhanced recovery after lung cancer surgery programs risk putting primacy of caring at stake? A qualitative focus group study on nurses' perspectives.

Aims And Objectives: To gain insight into nursing in an enhanced recovery after surgery program for lung cancer, we explored its meaning for nurses in a thoracic surgery unit.

Background: Since nurses play a key role in overcoming implementation barriers in enhanced recovery after surgery programs, successful implementation depends on their care approach during the surgery pathway.

Design: Qualitative focus group study.

What's going on after hospital? - Exploring the transition from hospital to home and patient experiences of nurse-led follow-up phone calls.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the transition from hospital to home and patient experiences of nurse-led post-operative follow-up phone calls after thoracic surgery.

Background: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol places new demands on patients after hospital. Need for a proactive approach to improve the post-operative follow-up process in the home is required.

Understanding Existential Anxiety and the Soothing Nature of Nostalgia in Life With Incurable Esophageal Cancer: A Phenomenological Hermeneutical Investigation of Patient Narratives.

Background: Research has identified how people living with incurable esophageal cancer experience existential concerns.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the phenomenon of existential anxiety when living with esophageal cancer in the context of receiving general palliative care in a hospital setting.

Methods: This qualitative study is inspired by phenomenological and hermeneutical aspects of the philosophies of Ricoeur and Heidegger.

A radical change: A qualitative study of patients' experiences of eating and daily living through the first year after oesophageal resection.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experiences of patients in terms of eating and consequences in everyday life in the first year after oesophageal cancer surgery.

Methods: Thirteen patients participated in qualitative interviews one year after surgery for oesophageal cancer. Descriptions capturing the meaning of the lived experiences of patients were then derived from subsequent analysis and interpretation of the interviews.