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Spiritual care: an essential component of the nurse practice in pediatric oncology

This is an article that addresses spiritual care in pediatric oncology nursing, as part of the concepts for promotion of health in families who have children and adolescents with cancer. Indicates subjects of nursing education that prepares nurses to offer that kind of care together with knowledge of their own spirituality. It is presented as an opportunity to discuss the theme, offering subsidies to rethink the practice of pediatric oncology nurse, also points to the need for additional research in this area.

Neoplasms; Spirituality; Religion; Pediatric nursing


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