Selected by the Editorial Board of The Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing, the recipient of this award is a first author of a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal in the last year and who has had three or more manuscripts published previously.
The primary goal of Dr. Pecanac’s project is to improve the process and experience of surrogate decision-making by identifying effective provider communication strategies when engaging with racially diverse surrogate decision makers.
The primary goal of Dr. Lor’s project is to pilot test a web-based communication training intervention to help Hmong bilingual caregivers document their care recipients’ pain information.
The article details the results of a pilot study which proved that a nurse-coordinated approach shows promise in treating more than just one symptom among patients with cancer.