Julie Armoogum's Outputs (42)

A centre specific Quality Improvement Project (QIP) to decrease ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes for inpatients in a haematology and autologous stem cell transplant unit within a UK District General Hospital (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background

Neutropenic sepsis following systemic anti-cancer therapy and autologous stem cell transplant is a life-threatening emergency, with a mortality rate of 40% among haematology patients (Klastersky et al 2016, NICE 2024), due to deeper and... Read More about A centre specific Quality Improvement Project (QIP) to decrease ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes for inpatients in a haematology and autologous stem cell transplant unit within a UK District General Hospital.

Decreasing ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes within a haematology inpatient setting (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Title: Quality Improvement Project to decrease the ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes within a haematology inpatient setting.

Background: Neutropenic sepsis following systemic anti-cancer the... Read More about Decreasing ‘temperature spike to needle time’ for first dose empiric antibiotics to within 60 minutes within a haematology inpatient setting.

Healthcare professionals' knowledge, understanding and confidence to manage chronic pain after cancer treatment: A UK survey (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: Healthcare professionals are vital in preparing people living with and beyond cancer about the risks of chronic pain after cancer treatment. To do so, healthcare professionals need to be knowledgeable and confident about chronic pain af... Read More about Healthcare professionals' knowledge, understanding and confidence to manage chronic pain after cancer treatment: A UK survey.

Chronic pain after cancer treatment: Insights from cancer survivors and healthcare professionals in England, UK to consider how cancer survivors’ experiences can be improved (2024)
Thesis

Chronic pain is a common side effect of cancer treatment. Pain is frequently cited as a top concern and unmet need for cancer survivors. This thesis explored experiences of cancer survivors living with chronic pain after cancer and investigated how... Read More about Chronic pain after cancer treatment: Insights from cancer survivors and healthcare professionals in England, UK to consider how cancer survivors’ experiences can be improved.

Exploring the provision of services to support people with cancer-related pain (2023)
Journal Article

Background.
Cancer-related pain is the most reported symptom across all cancer types. Its impact on the person experiencing it is significant and reduces their quality of life. Cancer-related pain is complex, to ensure optimal management, it requir... Read More about Exploring the provision of services to support people with cancer-related pain.

Chronic post cancer treatment pain – how can we increase unity across pathways? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Chronic post cancer treatment pain is pain that persists or recurs for longer than three months and is caused by surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy . It can occur months or years after cancer treatment has finished. Limited knowl... Read More about Chronic post cancer treatment pain – how can we increase unity across pathways?.

Evaluation of the impacts of patient and public involvement on cancer nursing doctoral study exploring cancer survivors’ experiences of living with chronic post cancer treatment pain (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background. Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) can help shape research. It is important to capture the impacts that PPI have on cancer nursing doctoral research.
Methods: Two Public Contributors, who were cancer survivors living with chronic post... Read More about Evaluation of the impacts of patient and public involvement on cancer nursing doctoral study exploring cancer survivors’ experiences of living with chronic post cancer treatment pain.

Evaluation of a live educational webinar on ‘Managing Chronic Pain’ (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

1: Background
Chronic cancer-related pain (CRP) is frequently reported, yet poorly understood. It is essential healthcare professionals have knowledge and skills to support those impacted with chronic and late effect CRP. However, literature shows t... Read More about Evaluation of a live educational webinar on ‘Managing Chronic Pain’.

Using the 'Evidencing Work Based Learning' module to improve the experience of people with cancer (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Development of online cancer resources to support pre-registration nurses and allied health professionals to increase their knowledge and understanding of cancer care (2023)
Journal Article

Cancer rates are increasing, and more people are living with cancer and its consequences. Healthcare students will be caring for people affected by cancer in all clinical contexts. However, pre-registration programmes can include limited cancer edu... Read More about Development of online cancer resources to support pre-registration nurses and allied health professionals to increase their knowledge and understanding of cancer care.

Virtual reality reduces anxiety and pain in acute hospital palliative care: Service evaluation (2023)
Journal Article

Objectives: Virtual reality (VR) might improve symptom management, but there is limited evidence regarding VR in palliative care. We evaluated the feasibility of VR and impact on anxiety and pain for patients in a hospital palliative care consultatio... Read More about Virtual reality reduces anxiety and pain in acute hospital palliative care: Service evaluation.

'I think it affects every aspect of my life, really': Cancer survivors' experience of living with chronic pain after curative cancer treatment in England, UK (2023)
Journal Article

Aim: To explore cancer survivors’ experiences of living with chronic pain after curative cancer treatment in England, UK. Methods: A qualitative study using telephone interviews with adult cancer survivors experiencing chronic pain after curative can... Read More about 'I think it affects every aspect of my life, really': Cancer survivors' experience of living with chronic pain after curative cancer treatment in England, UK.

The development of clinical recommendations to improve experiences of chronic pain after cancer treatment for people living with and beyond cancer (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Title: The development of clinical recommendations to improve experiences of chronic pain after cancer treatment for people living with and beyond cancer
Objectives/purpose: Development of clinical recommendations to improve experiences of chronic... Read More about The development of clinical recommendations to improve experiences of chronic pain after cancer treatment for people living with and beyond cancer.

Raising awareness of cancer among healthcare students (2023)
Journal Article

One in two people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime (Cancer Research UK, 2018). With such high levels of prevalence, all nurses, regardless of specialty, workplace setting or levels of experience, will be carin... Read More about Raising awareness of cancer among healthcare students.

An exploration of UK healthcare professionals attitudes to and priorities for the delivery of head & neck cancer prehabilitation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: To explore healthcare professionals’ (HCP) views, priorities and training needs relating to head and neck cancer (HNC) Prehabilitation (prehab).
Methods: HCP working with HNC patients in the United Kingdom participated in an internet bas... Read More about An exploration of UK healthcare professionals attitudes to and priorities for the delivery of head & neck cancer prehabilitation.

ACCEND Career pathway core cancer capabilities and education framework (2023)
Other

Advances in diagnosing and treating cancer are having a transformational impact on outcomes for millions of
cancer patients. Our NHS cancer workforce needs to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to deliver for
patients. The diagnosis, treatme... Read More about ACCEND Career pathway core cancer capabilities and education framework.

Exploring the provision of services to support those living with cancer-related pain: A UK perspective (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Addressing the professional and educational issues for the cancer nursing and allied health professions workforce: A collaborative, strategic, UK-wide approach (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
Cancer will affect 1 in 2 of us during our lifetime. Never has the time to focus upon the cancer workforce been more critical. The importance of developing the cancer workforce has been emphasised globally, within Europe and the United Ki... Read More about Addressing the professional and educational issues for the cancer nursing and allied health professions workforce: A collaborative, strategic, UK-wide approach.

Preliminary report: Impact of specialist education (2022)
Report

This report outlines the preliminary findings of a study exploring the impact of specialist cancer education on healthcare professionals’ learning, development and practice. It describes what motivates healthcare students to undertake specialist canc... Read More about Preliminary report: Impact of specialist education.

Health care professionals’ views regarding chronic post cancer treatment pain in cancer survivors: understanding, experience and confidence (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction:
Chronic post-cancer treatment pain (CPCTP) is pain caused by cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery (1). The prevalence of CPCTP affects many cancer ranges from 24 to 48% of people who have finished cancer t... Read More about Health care professionals’ views regarding chronic post cancer treatment pain in cancer survivors: understanding, experience and confidence.