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Providing leadership through patients as partners: improving Australian colorectal survivorship care through perspectives from a nurse who became a cancer patient.

Kriel, Sally-Anne; Paterson, Catherine

Authors

Sally-Anne Kriel

Catherine Paterson



Abstract

To provide contemporary real-world, real-life insights into gaps in supportive care experiences for people affected by colorectal cancer. For the first time, this article includes a patient as a coauthor, with the aim to identify future priorities to improve care and recovery in colorectal cancer survivorship. Electronic databases, peer-reviewed literature, and real-life professional and personal experiences were used. There are several problematic areas in providing supportive care for people affected by colorectal cancer that could be improved by wider access to colorectal specialist nurses, coordinated multidisciplinary teams, patient collaboration, linking survivorship care outcomes to national standards, and developing supported self-management care plans. A patient-led insight has underscored some fundamental failings in current service delivery among people affected by colorectal cancer. Partnering with consumers in research and service redesign is essential to stratify future priorities to optimize care and person-centered recovery.

Citation

KRIEL, S.-A. and PATERSON, C. 2023. Providing leadership through patients as partners: improving Australian colorectal survivorship care through perspectives from a nurse who became a cancer patient. Seminars in oncology nursing [online], 39(1), article 151360. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2022.151360

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 21, 2022
Online Publication Date Nov 21, 2022
Publication Date Feb 28, 2023
Deposit Date Dec 2, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Seminars in oncology nursing
Print ISSN 0749-2081
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 39
Issue 1
Article Number 151360
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2022.151360
Keywords Colorectal; Bowel; Cancer; Partnering with patients; Leadership; Unmet needs; Survivorship
Public URL https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1822706

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