Hope and Expanding Consciousness: Adolescents and Young Adults With Advanced Cancer.

Adolescents and young adults living with advanced cancer must often discover new rules for living during cancer treatment. Such experiences may lead them to emerge to higher levels of consciousness and find personal meaning in these experiences. Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness was this qualitative research study's framework examining hope's role for adolescents and young adults living with advanced cancer.

An Evolutionary Concept Analysis of Spiritual Competence in Nursing.

Aims: Clarify the concept of spiritual competence in the context of nursing through evidence-based extraction of attributes, antecedents and consequences.

Design: Concept analysis.

Methods: Rodgers' evolutionary method of concept analysis guided this analysis, and we followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews.

"Music Played a Role in Saving My Life and Getting Me Through All of This": A Descriptive Qualitative Study of Hope in Adolescents and Young Adults Living With Advanced Cancer.

Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) living with advanced cancer may experience a heightened risk for existential distress. Addressing AYAs' hopes can stimulate a dialogue about their concerns, values, and goals, provide a path to holistically support their existential needs, and potentially alleviate their distress. This study aimed to evaluate hope's role in a sample of AYAs living with advanced cancer.

Development of a Hospice Perceptions Instrument for Diverse Patients and Families: Establishing Content and Face Validity.

Context: For many, the perception of "hospice" is synonymous with "death." Even clinicians struggle to have conversations that distinguish between hospice and palliative care for fear that discussing hospice may diminish hope. To date, there are no existing measurement tools to evaluate patient and family perceptions of hospice care.

"God is going to help me get through this": spirituality perspectives from Hispanic adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.

Purpose: Describe spirituality's role in a sample of Hispanic adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors.

Methods: This phenomenology-informed convergent parallel mixed-methods study aimed to explore participants' lived experiences with hope during cancer treatments and cancer survivorship. A purposive sample of Hispanic AYAs who completed cancer treatments 2-5 years ago were virtually recruited for participation.