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Location, Location, Location: Red Box Eases Anxiety in the Infusion Room
May 7th 2017As presented at the 2017 ONS Annual Congress, nurses at Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Eastern Medical Center developed an emergency supply box for the occurrence of hypersensitivity reactions during cancer therapy infusions.
A New Core Measure of Sepsis Aims to Improve Screening Criteria and Save Lives
May 5th 2017Nurses at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins implemented an intervention to reduce the missed cases of sepsis in oncology patients, as presented at the 2017 Oncology Nursing Society's Annual Congress
The "Missing Link" in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
September 27th 2016As clinical providers, the ability to meet the science of medicine with its physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial impact it has on patients is often unintentionally overlooked or, at the very least, minimized during the active treatment phase of care; therefore, the purpose and potential benefits that result from integrating palliative care early on in the process is missed.