Balancing health care needs in a changing context: nursing highlights from the 2016 European Oncology Nursing Society Congress (EONS10), 17–18 October 2016, Dublin, Ireland

摘要

European cancer nurses have to face many challenges as a result of the rapidly changing economic and political context in which balancinghealth care needs has become strategic for healthcare delivery. Currently, cancer nurses must overcome many obstacles arisingfrom clinical, organisational, and educational issues. Within this scenario, the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) shaped itstenth congress programme to boost discussion and reflections, to share experiences and research, and to see how cancer nurses tryto anticipate and embrace changes. The aim of this was to promote innovative solutions and to address the many issues involved withcancer care.EONS10 was held on 17–18 October in Dublin, Ireland. The congress was attended by more than 500 delegates. The programme coveredthe following themes: caring for families and carers, inequalities and access to cancer care, caring for patients with haematological cancers,palliative care, communication and information exchange, community cancer care (i.e. parallel sessions), roles and responsibility foradvanced nursing practice, International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS)-Academy workshops (i.e. workshops), cancer survivorship,clinical leadership and new roles, oncology nursing research, symptom experiences and management, palliative care (i.e. proffered papers),poster presentations, and satellite symposia. The aim of this paper is to highlight and discuss the contents of the EONS10 congress.