In an ornate U.S. Senate hearing room, ONS, with coalition partners, Once Voice Against Cancer (OVAC) and the National Coalition for Cancer Research (NCCR), held a congressional briefing called “National Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel Report Panel Discussion.”
Having recently been appointed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) point-person on Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative, Richard Pazdur, MD, the FDA’s acting director of the Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), blogged about the agency’s efforts to make sure patients and providers know about the progress in cancer prevention and treatment.
It’s no secret that many retailers use advertising and marketing campaigns to reach minors in an effort to increase sales. Unfortunately, this extends to the tobacco industry as well. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a warning letter to 55 companies with strict regulations on the marketing and sales of tobacco products to minors.
On September 15, 2016, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) released its new strategic plan, “Advancing Science, Improving Lives: A Vision for Nursing Science,” citing forward-thinking research.
In a move to make government sponsored clinical trials publicly known and easily found, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new process for submitting and releasing clinical trials on the government's new clinical trials website.
In January 2016, President Obama appointed Vice President Joe Biden as the chair of a new national initiative to “end cancer as we know it.” Dubbed the Cancer Moonshot, the goal is to make the same advances in five years that would usually take 10 to achieve.
Florence Nightingale, a forerunner of evidence-based practice, linked sanitation to morbidity and mortality rates. Her initiatives, such as simple hand washing, remain standards today. The attention and implementation of quality standards have helped change and shape the way our healthcare system grows to keep patients safe.
Nursing theorist, Jean Watson, RN, PhD, FAAN, once said, “Caring is the essence of nursing.” As we move into the fast-paced era of increasing technology, innovative treatments, and electronic medical documenting, we should remember that small tokens of understanding and little acts of kindness are really what makes nursing such a privilege.
Every nurse has been in a situation where he or she is staring at a discharge document, thinking, “This patient will need an immense amount of outside support to adhere to this treatment plan.”
