Position Statement on Cancer Nursing Leadership

Julia D Downing1, Angela Adjetey Appiah, Kylie Ash

  • 1Author Affiliations: International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Drs Downing, So, and Yates); International Children's Palliative Care Network, Kampala, Uganda (Dr Downing); Mount Sinai Hospital, New York (Dr Appiah); Palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative, Brisbane, Australia (Ms Ash); Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, United Kingdom (Ms Chante); Churchill Hospital, Oxford Universities NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom (Mr Tysoe); Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Dr Krishnasamy); The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Dr So and Ms Milanti); Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (Drs Yates and Philips); McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Ms Power).

Cancer Nursing
|February 16, 2023
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