Table 5.

Ways to improve ability to do job better

Theme/Examples	N = 380
More staff, more time	39%
“More staff, specifically a neuropsychologist, social worker, child life therapist, spiritual counselor and health educator” “Opportunity to stop and integrate learning and skills – basically, time out to think and process, balance clinical and academic time, rather than never-ending time pressures!”
Training and guidelines (18%)	18%
“More training (self-learning or through professional and academic opportunities”) “Access to knowledge, guidelines, opportunity to participate in international congresses”
Collaboration and communication with interdisciplinary members	15%
“More cohesion within the disciplines to brainstorm and share work and interventions” “Having some clearly unified work groups in the organization to work together (eg, quality of life)”
Better salary and/or grant support	8%
“External and internal funding to ease demands on productivity and to be less dependent on insurance” “Guaranteed payment funding for my salary or overtime pay”
Better and/increased or availability for supervision	7%
“More frequent supervision (face to face) rather than phone supervision (1 hour/month currently)” “A good teacher. Supervision with a senior psycho-oncologic clinician”.
More physical space	6%
“More privacy and space – I am in an office with 8 others and have no allocated area to patients for therapy or neuropsychological assessments” see “A better work environment, appropriate space”
Increased institutional recognition	4%
“More visibility and respect from the medical staff” “Infrastructure that recognize psychosocial oncology [in general] and me as a psychologist”