2013 Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 47-55
Abstract
Consultation of Certified Nurse Specialists in cancer is the introduction to their advanced practice, and it is an essential function requiring the spread of uniformly high‒quality cancer nursing. However, comprehension of the meaning of consultation in the nursing field is ambiguous. Therefore, concept analysis of “consultation of Certified Nurse Specialists in cancer” was conducted using the method of Walker ＆ Avant （2005） in order to promote the utilization, evaluation, and education of consultation. As a result, ‘Certified Nurse Specialists in cancer’, ‘General nurses’, ‘Issues of consultation’, ‘Process of relationship’ and ‘Outcomes’ were extracted as attributes, ‘Increasing complexity of life of cancer patients and their families’ and ‘Management system’ were extracted as antecedents, and ‘Improvement of system’ was extracted as a consequence. There is a need to recognize the existence of a gap among nurses in the use of the consultation concept and to explore the relationship of these attributes.
