Nursing Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Developing Knowledge, Competence and Best Practice

This book describes and explains how caring for adolescents and young adults with cancer (AYA) has developed into what is now a recognized and distinct field of nursing practice. It captures current innovative nursing practices and interventions which have developed over the past 25 years across the globe and are supported by research and evidence achieved in many European and international oncology settings. By outlining and describing educational needs of the AYA cancer nursing profession, this book supports its education and professional development for the nursing profession and serves to develop and disseminate nurses? competencies worldwide. 

During the last decade, AYA have gained increased attention in healthcare. Today, it is recognized that AYA with cancer have distinct needs that are different to both children and older adults. Young people are in a unique developmental and transitional phase of their lives; thus, their treatment, perspectives and experie

Preface.- Introduction. Beyond No Man’s Land - The development of AYA Cancer Nursing.- Part 1. History of the speciality and AYA nursing competence development.- Chapter 1. The Development of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Nursing - The UK Experience.- Chapter 2. A personal reflection of my leadership journey in AYA Nursing (a case study).- Chapter 3. Educating and developing AYA Cancer Nurses.- Chapter 4. Exploring professional boundaries in AYA nursing care.- Part 2. Approaches, Interventions and Innovations in AYA cancer nursing.- Chapter 5. Communication with young people with cancer about sensitive topics.- Chapter 6. Balancing risk with resilience: Using holistic psychosocial screening and assessment tools effectively with adolescents and young adults with cancer.- Chapter 7. Cancer rehabilitation of adolescents and young adults.- Chapter 8. Network focused nursing and network meetings in AYA cancer care.- Chapter 9. The Dutch AYA Outpatient Clinic: support and counselling during and after cancer treatment.- Chapter 10. Transition for adolescents and young adults with cancer.- Chapter 11. Nurse Led Ambulatory care.- Part 3. Aspects and challenges for future AYA cancer nursing.- Chapter 12. Challenges for nursing.- Chapter 13. Leadership and the future development of AYA services.

Sam Smith is a qualified paediatric nurse and a specialist practitioner with twenty years of clinical experience, and a nurse consultant for teenagers and young adults. She advises both nationally and internationally on teenage and young adult cancer and is a Board member of various national and international cancer, nursing, policy and research groups. She led and developed UK and European leadership programmes in AYA cancer care; led, developed and published first Nursing competence and career framework in AYA cancer nursing. Sam Smith is also the Editor and author of The Blueprint of Care (AYA Cancer) (2012), and she is an invited speaker at over 50 national and international conferences. She has been awarded by the European Oncology Nursing Society “Lifetime Achievement Award” 2015 in recognition of leading the development of AYA cancer nursing specialty.