Home visiting for a posthysterectomy population

Advanced Practice Nurses in Home Care: Is there a Role?

The current challenges affecting home care make the environment ripe for the development of new models of advanced practice nursing in home care. This article explores the barriers and benefits of advanced practice nursing in home care and describes the changes needed to fully integrate the advanced practice nurse into the home care delivery system.

Home care of the patient with gynecologic cancer

This article discusses the major issues in the provision of home care to patients with gynecologic cancer. Nursing roles, including coordination of patient/family services, guidance and support, patient/family teaching, and direct care, are described. Specific needs of patients with gynecologic cancer at home, such as nutrition, pain control, care during radiation and chemotherapy treatments, postoperative recovery and convalescence, and care of the terminally ill, are addressed.