Symptom Management in Oncology: Depression and Anxiety - Henry 2022

The goal was to outline cancer nursing care for anxiety and depression. Journal papers, online resources, and personal experience treating cancer survivors with depression and/or anxiety are employed as data sources. Nurses can help cancer patients with depression or anxiety. Nurses can learn nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic depression and anxiety treatments to support patients. Nurses can refer cancer patients to psychiatric and emotional support services. Cancer nurses don't need psychiatric expertise to treat depression and anxiety. Nurses can listen empathically, teach relaxation techniques, and advocate for psychotropic drugs or psychiatric referrals.

Barbara J. Henry, Symptom Management in Oncology: Depression and Anxiety, Seminars in Oncology Nursing, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2022, 151251, ISSN 0749-2081, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2022.151251.