Community-Based Oncology Nursing: Status and Prospects

Purpose: It is difficult to determine whether a comprehensive and systematic community-based cancer care project is properly carried out. The purpose of this article is to present the current status and prospects of community-based oncology nursing by reviewing related literature.Methods: A new cancer care model is established through the analysis of existing cancer care models and literature review of community-based cancer prevention, cancer screening, cancer survivor care, cancer patient hospice care.Results: The Comprehensive Cancer Care Model (CCCM) was presented. The CCCM arranges the periods of cancer treatment and the cancer journey on the horizontal axis, and public health centers, oncology hospitals, cancer convalescent hospitals, primary care physicians, and prayer centers on the vertical axis, and describes levels of care participation of human resources in institutions and the degree of interconnection.Conclusion: It is expected that CCCM will be used for holistic, sustainable, and cost-effective cancer management. In community-based oncology nursing, health promotion team nurses of public health centers are in charge of population-based cancer prevention and early detection programs, and visiting health management team nurses of public health centers are in charge of individual-based cancer survivor and hospice programs.