The Psychological and Wellbeing Impacts of Quarantine on Frontline Workers during COVID-19 and Beyond.

Objective: The current study investigated the experiences, wellbeing impacts, and coping strategies of frontline workers who participated in "Hotels for Heroes", an Australian voluntary hotel quarantine program during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program was open to those who were COVID-19 positive or exposed to COVID-19 as part of their profession.

Methods: Frontline workers who had stayed in voluntary quarantine between April 2020 and March 2021 were invited to participate in a voluntary, anonymous, cross-sectional online survey including both quantitative and qualitative responses.

Filling the gaps: A mixed-methods study exploring the use of patient diaries in the critical care unit.

Background: Survivors of critical illness often take time to recovery physically and psychologically from their critical care experience. There is tentative evidence suggesting that the use of a patient or family led diary with entries by nurses, doctors and allied health professionals may help the patient 'fill in the gaps' by making sense of a time they have forgotten. Many have confused or frightening memories and a diary can aid patients and their families in the recovery after critical illness.

'Viewing in slow motion': patients', families', nurses' and doctors' perspectives on end-of-life care in critical care.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the meaning of end-of-life care for critically ill cancer patients, families, oncologists, palliative care specialists, critical care consultants and nurses.

Background: End-of-life care for critically ill patients, of whom nearly 20% will die in critical care, remains somewhat problematic (Truog et al. 2008).

Exploring patients' experiences of a nurse-led follow-up service after critical care.

Aim: To explore the impact of critical care experiences on patients' long-term health.

Method: This was a mixed-method interview and questionnaire study that involved patients in the design. Patients were interviewed at different times up to 12 months after critical care discharge.

WISECARE+: Results of a European study of a nursing intervention for the management of chemotherapy-related symptoms.

While the use of chemotherapy has significantly improved survival rates, the symptoms associated with chemotherapy remain a major burden for patients. Preventing or appropriately managing side effects significantly improves patients' functional status and quality of life, ultimately leading to greater patient acceptance of chemotherapy. However, symptom assessment and management are fraught with difficulties such as poor patient recall, retrospective assessment conducted by clinicians and lack of appropriate, clinically relevant and patient friendly symptom assessment and management tools.

The management of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients.

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), encompassing deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a common complication of cancer and an important cause of preventable mortality in people with cancer. Because VTE can be clinically silent, fatal PE generally occurs without warning, and preventive measures are, therefore, necessary in high-risk patients. Clinical guidelines recommend the use of low-molecular-weight heparins in the treatment and prevention of VTE in patients with cancer, in addition to non-pharmacological interventions aimed at reducing thrombotic risk.

After critical care: a study to explore patients' experiences of a follow-up service.

Aims And Objectives: To establish patients' experiences after discharge from critical care and to evaluate implementation of a follow-up service.

Background: Government recommendations advise critical care follow-up to prevent readmission and address problems after discharge. Admission to critical care results in significant psychological and physiological sequelae.

Nursing research at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

The Royal Marsden has a prestigious cancer-related research programme with a commitment to developing nursing research. Nurses are able to make an important contribution to cancer care through their close relationship with patients, which gives them a unique research perspective.

Neutropenia management with granulocyte colony-stimulating factors: from guidelines to nursing practice protocols.

Neutropenia, a problem that oncology nurses face in daily practice, is the major dose-limiting toxicity in patients with cancer who are treated with myelosuppressive chemotherapy. The incidence of chemotherapy dose reductions or treatment delays, which can impact overall dose intensity and compromise treatment outcomes, may be reduced by the proactive use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). National and international guidelines have been developed to promote the cost-effective use of G-CSF.