A qualitative study on healthcare professional and patient perspectives on nurse-led virtual prostate cancer survivorship care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Virtual nurse-led care models designed with health care professionals (HCPs) and patients may support addressing unmet prostate cancer (PCa) survivor needs. Within this context, we aimed to better understand the optimal design of a service model for a proposed nurse-led PCa follow-up care platform (Ned Nurse).

Methods

A qualitative descriptive study exploring follow-up and virtual care experiences to inform a nurse-led virtual clinic (Ned Nurse) with an a priori convenience sample of 10 HCPs and 10 patients. We provide a health ecosystem readiness checklist mapping facilitators onto CFIR and Proctor's implementation outcomes.

Results

We show that barriers within the current standard of care include: fragmented follow-up, patient uncertainty, and long, persi

SUBMITTER: Young K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10622495 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature