Research into practice: the reality of implementing a non-pharmacological breathlessness intervention into clinical practice.

The work of Corner and colleagues in the non-pharmacological management of breathlessness in patients with lung cancer has aroused considerable interest. Cancer and palliative care nurses are encouraged to incorporate the breathlessness intervention into their clinical practice but this has not always proved easy or straightforward. This paper draws on the authors' experience as lung cancer nurse specialists to explore some of the difficulties nurses in clinical practice may encounter when attempting to translate the research findings into their own areas and suggests ways these difficulties may be overcome.