Jeannine Brant on Assessing Pain in Patients with Cancer
Jeannine Brant discusses the important things to remember when assessing pain in a patient with cancer.
Jeannine Brant, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCN, Billings Clinic, discusses the important things to remember when assessing pain in patients with cancer.
Pain assessment relies on discovering who is having cancer pain and who is not, which relies on communication with the patient. Brant reminds nurses to check on the four A's: response to analgesia, daily activities and functionality, adverse events, aberrant behavior.
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).
