Nurses' Attitudes in Adolescent Oncology Care: Supporting Adolescents While Navigating Emotional Challenges and Fostering Mutual Subjectivity

In adolescent cancer nursing, where nurses tend to experience challenges, it is important to engage with adolescents without rushing to provide answers, to separate oneself from adolescents, and to be present with them while managing emotional wavering. The attitudes of nurses who cared for adolescents with cancer were interpreted as embodying the essence of nursing presence. Further research should incorporate patients' perspectives on nursing presence to help alleviate nurses' sense of difficulty in these interactions.