Nursing, Coaching, Oncology and Chronic Diseases: Future Insights and Perspectives
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Nursing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 76
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychiatric nursing; holistic nursing; orthopedic nursing; gender role research
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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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Keywords
- chronic disease
- coaching
- nursing
- oncology
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