While nurses in this study demonstrated generally positive
attitude to survivorship care for haematological cancer patients,
this study has highlighted discrepancies between role perception,
practice, and the IOM recommendations that reflect potentially
important barriers to providing coordinated, comprehensive survivorship
care. In particular, areas of practice that were implemented
less frequently and were seen to be less important by
nurses, highlight what may be critical gaps if these aspects of care
are not adequately addressed by other members of the health care
team. Health service providers need to clearly delineate whose role
it is to provide various aspects of survivorship care, so that all aspects
of care are attended to (King et al., 2008)