The specialist breast care nurse within an online community: adding the 16th moment of care

Abstract

The presence and active participation of a specialist breast care nurse, as both a member and employed health professional in an online support community, can have positive effects on the knowledge, understanding, and supportive care of online community members who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and their supporters . The nurse in this instance is a SBCN; however, other specialist nurses could undertake a similar role within other disease-specific support websites.

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

2015

Location of the Work

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Faculty

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

Publisher

International Association for Human Caring

School

School of Medical and Health Sciences

RAS ID

19915

Comments

Witney, C., Hendricks, J., & Cope, V. (2015). The specialist breast care nurse within an online community: adding the 16th moment of care. International Journal for Human Caring, 19(1), 33-39. Available here

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.20467/1091-5710-19.1.33