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Nursing, Coaching, Oncology and Chronic Diseases: Future Insights and Perspectives
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Nursing, Coaching, Oncology and Chronic Diseases: Future Insights and Perspectives

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 682

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Elsa Vitale

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Scientific Directorate, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: psychiatric nursing; holistic nursing; orthopedic nursing; gender role research
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Dr. Karen Avino

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Guest Editor
Integrative Nurse Coach Academy, International Nurse Coaching Association, Miami, FL 33132, USA
Interests: holistic nursing; nursing; nursing education

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Healthcare will improve future insights and perspectives on oncology and chronic diseases through coaching interventions.

Health coaching represents a new methodological approach in healthcare systems, which improves both patients and healthcare professionals to achieve their desired health outcomes and inspires them to evaluate their related choices, make decisions, identify challenges and ameliorate their health attitudes, encouraging positive emotions and self-care, from the perspective of their own health outcomes and quality of life.

Health coaching requirements focus on individual-centered strategies, establishing relations between the coach and the coached, improving health outcomes and education from a self-care perspective.

These aspects will focus on several nursing role activities, such as education, research, organization and professional training, while considering different nursing care contexts, such as prevention, screening, diagnosis, palliative treatment and rehabilitation.

Key concepts:

  • Coaching perspectives regarding cost resource allocation, healthy policy and management, mental well-being, patient-centered approaches and related safety care;
  • Coaching perspectives on oncology nursing combined with role activities, such as education, research, organization and professional training;
  • Coaching perspectives on oncology nursing care dimensions, such as prevention, screening, diagnosis, palliative treatment and rehabilitation care.

Dr. Elsa Vitale
Dr. Karen Avino
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • chronic disease
  • coaching
  • nursing
  • oncology

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Development of a Course to Prepare Nurses to Train Expert Patients
by Manacés Dos Santos-Becerril, Francisca Sánchez-Ayllón, Isabel Morales-Moreno, Flavia Barreto-Tavares-Chiavone, Isabelle Campos-de Acevedo, Ana Luisa Petersen-Cogo, Marcos Antônio Ferreira-Junior and Viviane Euzebia Pereira Santos
Healthcare 2025, 13(15), 1939; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13151939 - 7 Aug 2025
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Introduction: With the emergence of the expert patient and the expansion of health literacy, the importance of planning and building health technologies aimed at teaching and training health professionals, especially nurses, due to their activities with patients in Primary Health Care, with the [...] Read more.
Introduction: With the emergence of the expert patient and the expansion of health literacy, the importance of planning and building health technologies aimed at teaching and training health professionals, especially nurses, due to their activities with patients in Primary Health Care, with the aim of meeting the real and constant demands of the expert patient, is evident. Methods: Methodological study with a quantitative approach. The course was constructed based on a scope review, scientific reference, and observational visits during the months of September 2021 and August 2022. For validation, an organized electronic form was used with general information about the research and items of the course constructed for later evaluation by the judges with the three-point Likert scale and with the application of the Delphi Technique between the months of September and October 2022; for the agreement of the judges, the Content Validation Coefficient > 0.8 was considered. Results: Based on the content selected in the scope review, the reference contribution, and the observational visits, the course was constructed. Nine judges participated in the validation stage in Delphi I with a total Content Validation Coefficient above 0.90 and with some suggestions for modifications and improvements pointed out by them. In Delphi II, six judges evaluated the course, resulting in a total Content Validation Coefficient of 0.99. Conclusions: The course developed was considered valid to support the training of Primary Health Care nurses in the formation of the expert patient, with a view to promoting patient autonomy in self-care management, optimizing Primary Health Care, and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions. Full article
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