Lost in the Shuffle
Childhood cancer is a family diagnosis. Healthy siblings can often be overlooked when one child has cancer, leading to emotional issues.
We All Need A Little Beauty Sleep
Are you, and your patients, getting enough sleep every night? A good night's sleep can contribute to better health.
Loneliness: The New Smoking, Part 2
This second installment of this blog on loneliness focuses on how loneliness may compromise health and can be combatted against.
Perspective Shift: Patient to Caregiver
Cancer touches the caregiver as much as the patient, and that position comes with it's own, unique emotional tolls.
Leading the Leaders
We have all the tools we need to solve problems, we just need to remind leadership how to use them.
I Made a Mistake
How can nursing professionals take medical errors and learn from them?
Awareness? How about ACTION!
When cancer "awareness" isn't enough, it's time to take action and become advocates.
Can You Just Listen to Me?
Is saying "sorry" enough when someone is grieving? As a nurse, how can you help a grieving patient or family?
Loneliness: The New Smoking
Exploring loneliness and its effect on health. Part 1 of 2.
You Mean I've Got to Live With This?
For patients with cancer especially, dealing with anxiety in a world of unknowns can be difficult.
Tie Up Loose Ends for the Patient's Sake
Nurses don’t have to be Mother Teresa, saints, or martyrs, but sometimes when it comes to empathy, we are the cleanup crew.
Eating Healthy on the Job
Two-thirds of cancers can be prevented by diet and exercise alone. Now is the time to focus on cancer prevention.
Addressing the Need, One Survivor at a Time
For survivors of childhood cancer, survivorship programs can offer assistance for their families as much as for them.
What if it were me?
The best stories bring us to see our lives with whole new eyes
The Value of Clarity
Clarity helps us go where we intend to go.
Perception
How do cancer survivors perceive their cancer?
The Panoramic View
Oncology nurses need to view healthcare through a panoramic lens to best serve cancer patients.
The Elephant of Intimacy
Is the elephant of intimacy making you or your patient uncomfortable?
Oncology for the Holidays
The holidays are here again, and cancer hasn't gone anywhere
Healing Healthcare
Nurses can apply the principles of beneficience and nonmaleficience to heal healthcare.
Accepting the Unacceptable
How can nurses walk through the challenges of palliative care when comforting is uncomfortable?
EASIER: Make a Difference in Patients' Health Behaviors
Nurses can model and encourage patients toward healthy behaviors making it E.A.S.I.E.R in just a few simple steps.
Fast Facts for the Frontline: Inflammatory Breast Cancer
An oncology nurse's overview of inflammatory breast cancer.
Chemobrain: Research the Nurse Can Apply
Just BE
Is there actually an increase of hospital visits when a full moon is present? Does the moon increase the incidence of admissions or injury?
Thank You, No Thank You
Have you every been a part of something so touching that it just puts a big smile on your face, warms your heart, and maybe even brings out a few tears?
Why I Love #CureConnect Chat (and you should, too!)
As the #CureConnect chat community grows, I hope to see some ah-ha moments for participants.
The Power of Touch
What if you could give a patient just a moment to relax and escape the reality of life? Oncology massage is just the way to do it.
Nurses Touching Souls
A survivor recalls the impact oncology nurses can have on their patients.and the "extraordinary power" of love.
One word so much confusion...
Survivor: one simple word surrounded by so much confusion but yet so much meaning.
Mosunetuzumab/Polatuzumab Vedotin Triples PFS in LBCL
Nurses Lead Toxicity Monitoring in Indolent Lymphoma Care
Osimertinib/Chemo Boosts Survival in Frontline EGFR+ NSCLC
Lutetium Lu 177 Dotatate Brings Partial Response in Metastatic BP-NETs