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Daily Spiritual Experiences in Nursing Care and ResearchResearch on the role of spirituality in healthcare continues to grow, and for patients with cancer, religious and spiritual values can be especially important to their overall quality of life throughout their cancer journey.
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Feeding Tube Misconnections -- A Safety ConcernIf a nurse inadvertently connects an enteral device to another type of tube such as intravenous line or tracheal tube, it can cause the patient harm. Specialized connectors can prevent this from happening.
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Lauren Berger Discusses Nurse-Directed Programs Offered by the Leukemia and Lymphoma SocietyLauren Berger, MPH, Senior Director of Patient Services Programs at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society discusses some of the programs offered by the foundation specifically for oncology nurses.
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There's an App for That: Keeping Patients and Physicians on TrackUsing mobile apps and other new technologies, clinicians can better monitor and help their patients.
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FDA Recommends Black-Box Warning on Breast ImplantsMakers of breast implants should supplement their labeling to include a boxed warning about health problems that can arise from the devices, along with a patient decision checklist that highlights those concerns, according to final guidance issued today by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Brian Untch on Watchful Waiting for NETsBrian Untch, MD, assistant member, Department of Surgery, Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service, Head and Neck Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the watchful waiting approach for patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).
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Kerry Nichols on a Nurse Navigator-Led Smoking Cessation ProgramKerry Nichols, RN, BSN, OCN, explains their nurse navigator-led smoking cessation program.
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Ibrutinib Shows Promise in Treating GVHD After Stem Cell TransplantIbrutinib has showed clinically meaningful and durable responses in patients with chronic graph-versus-host-disease (cGVHD).
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Multigene Panel Tests Yield Clues to Breast and Ovarian Cancer RiskWhat do patients think about being tested for many genes that may impact their hereditary risk for breast or ovarian cancer, beyond the well-known BRCA mutations?
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Margaretta Page on Caring for the CaregiverMargaretta Page, MS, RN, clinical nurse specialist, UCSF School of Medicine, discusses the importance of caring for the caregiver.
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Oncology Nurse Navigators and Community Health Workers: Building Unique Relationships for Cancer Care, Part II of IIAmy Sebastian-Deutsch describes the potential for a collaborative relationship between Oncology Nurse Navigators and community health workers.
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The Benefits for Nurses of Using Psychosocial Cancer Registry DataRegistries, large databases of patient information collected in a systematic, standardized fashion, most often focus on biologic measures, such as pathology, radiology, and laboratory results, to track incidence and prevalence of disease as well as causative factors.
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Making an Impact for Stomach Cancer Patients With Lawmakers in Washington, DCI was diagnosed with stage IV advanced, incurable stomach (gastric) cancer in April 2008 when I was only 40 years old
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Peer Support Boosts Patients' Morale and Drug AdherenceFor patients facing a devastating illness like cancer, there is a need for support from all modalities – professional, family, and friends. A survivor mentor brings value to the mix.
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Impairment-Driven Cancer Rehabilitation Improves Survivors' Quality of LifeThe lack of comprehensive rehabilitation services is a profound source of unnecessary suffering for survivors.
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The Day PlannerA nurse navigator uses a simple tool to help a forgetful patient overcome a barrier to care.
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Oncology Nursing Practice in 2020: The Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 PandemicEarly on, oncology nurses knew that cancer wasn’t going to stop for COVID-19, and so neither could they.
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The Argument For Better Patient-Centered Care in OncologyAfter 4 years of living with inflammatory breast cancer, Amy Berman, RN, BS, senior program officer at the John A. Hartford Foundation, said she felt fine during her speech at The American Journal of Managed Care's Patient-Centered Oncology Care meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Encorafenib Triplet Elicits Antitumor Activity in BRAF V600E+ mCRCEncorafenib plus cetuximab, along with chemotherapy, was linked to antitumor activity and a manageable safety profile in patients with BRAF V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer.
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Weight Loss Linked to Lower Endometrial Cancer RiskA recent study suggested that intentional weight loss could decrease the risk of endometrial cancer.
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Announcing Finances 101: An Online Toolkit For Young Adults With CancerThe SAMfund and Triage Cancer have partnered to offer financial guidance to cancer patients and caregivers.
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Do You Have a Hula Hoop?A nurse uses her creativity to gain the trust of a patient who was skeptical of an MIBG scan.
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Having Hopeful Conversations with PatientsTo best help your patients, you need to understand what they are going through, and the best way to do that is to have hopeful conversations with them that get them talking.
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Terry Pody on Ensuring the Appropriate Level of Care Post-DischargeTerry Pody, MSN, RN, NE-BC, explains how nurses can ensure that a patient goes to the right point of care after they have been discharged.
