From Nurse to Patient and Back Again: Lessons Learned

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Listen to the first-ever episode of the CURE Talks Cancer Podcast: Nursing Edition.

Patricia Jakel, RN, MN, AOCN, thought that she was doing perfectly fine in her career as an oncology nurse. Until she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

In the first-ever CURE Talks Cancer Podcast: Nursing Edition, hear what Jakel has to say about how her experience as a patient shaped the way she performs her job as a clinical nurse specialist at UCLA.

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