Paula Koppel, PhD student, and Jennie De Gagne, professor, were featured in "Nurse-Patient Videoconferencing Relationships in Oncology Ambulatory Care" by Lindsay Fischer in Oncology Nursing News. The article references their research protocol, "Exploring Nurse and Patient Experiences of Developing Rapport During Oncology Ambulatory Care Videoconferencing Visits: Protocol for a Qualitative Study," in The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR).

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A new qualitative study will determine what behaviors, communication techniques, and relational practices are vital in the videoconferencing telehealth era. This study will attempt to explore practical guidelines for relationship building and establishing rapport between patients and oncology nurses through screen-to-screen communication.

Data collection is set to begin in the summer of 2021 and the researchers anticipate results by winter of the same year. Researchers well-versed in qualitative methodology will perform a conventional content analysis using the first--and second-level codes extracted from the transcribed text data.