Lisa Barbarotta on Communicating the Importance of Oral Adherence to Patients
Lisa Barbarotta, MSN, APRN-BC, AOCNS, discusses how nurses can explain to patients how important it is that they adhere to their oral anticancer medications.
Lisa Barbarotta, MSN, APRN-BC, AOCNS, of Smilow Cancer Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital, discusses the how nurses can help patients understand the importance of adhering to their oral prescriptions.
Nurses need a systematic way to address adherence as it can be directly related to outcomes and survivals for patients. To improve adherence, nurses can deliver the message that their prescriptions are not "just a pill" early on in treatment. Patients understand the "how" and "why" of the treatment.
Oncology Nurses Provide Patients an Avenue to Supportive Care
November 12th 2019Palliative care is often associated with a patient entering end of life treatment and giving up on their treatment, but that isn't the reality of what id can do for patients. And oncology nurses can help guide patients to the right supportive care for them.
Hyman B. Muss Discusses the Importance of Nurses in Treating Pregnant Women With Breast Cancer
March 23rd 2016Hyman B. Muss, MD, professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, discusses the vital roles that nurses play when it comes to treating pregnant women with breast cancer.
Kimberly J. Van Zee on Nomograms Helping in DCIS Treatment Decision-Making
March 18th 2016Kimberly J. Van Zee, MS, MD, FACS, attending surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the institution's newly-developed nomogram that can help women make treatment decisions about ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).
