Abstract

ZABALEGUI YARNOZ, Adelaida; GALLART FERNANDEZ-PUEBLA, Albert; CABRERA TORRES, Esther  and  BARDALLO PORRAS, M. Dolores. Strategies in Oncology Nursing Research for the twenty-first century. Index Enferm [online]. 2004, vol.13, n.47, pp.31-34. ISSN 1699-5988.

Oncology nurses have to COPE with the demands of the cancer within a reference framework of quality care. Oncology nursing research is needed to respond to actual or potential cancer patient problems. Besides, professional nursing care requires research as a fundamental activity. All nurses have to participate in research as generators of knowledge by participating in nursing research or as consumers of research results in focusing in four targeted aspects: Greater funding directed towards nursing research, increased production of clinical research, improved dissemination, enhanced consumption of research publications by clinicians.