Whether virtually or in person, by voice or in writing, people spend up to 80% of their workday communicating. For nurses specifically, communicating about care consumes more than an hour total each shift, with 83% of that hour conversing with interprofessional colleagues. Ensuring those conversations are as effective as possible is critical with today’s staffing challenges.
The vast majority of patients, nurses, and physicians said that insurer policies and practices are reducing access to medical care, driving up healthcare costs, and increasing clinician burden and burnout, the American Hospital Association reported in survey results released in July 2023.
Committing $5.4 million to their first year of study, the Biden-Harris administration announced its inaugural cohort of 11 Cancer Moonshot scholars in August 2023. The White House said that the emerging leaders in cancer research and innovation will use the funding “to help change what is possible.”
Join ONS member Suzanne Mahon, RN, AOCN®, AGN-BC, FAAN, professor at Saint Louis University in Missouri and member of the St. Louis ONS Chapter, as she demonstrates how to examine and explore somatic biomarker testing reports. Understanding these reports is critical when providing patient education, and Mahon’s tips and tricks when identifying report components and their importance are helpful tools for oncology nurses to consider in their practice.
On October 2, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported Hospira, Inc.’s, voluntary recall of several lots of 4.2% sodium bicarbonate injection, USP, 5 mEq/10 ml vial; 1% lidocaine HCl injection, USP, 50 mg/5 ml vial; and 2% lidocaine HCl injection, USP, 100 mg/5 ml vial to the user level because of the potential for presence of glass particulate matter.
When mapping out our career journey, many oncology nurses have found ourselves asking: Should I go back to school and get my master’s degree? How do I juggle it all? I am raising a family and trying to work full-time, but I would also love to grow in my nursing career. How can I be successful at it all?
Race-specific cellular and genomic characteristics in breast and breast cancer tissues may explain racial differences in breast cancer aggressiveness, blood vessel growth, tumor cell migration and metastasis, and the cancer pathways GLI1 and Notch, researchers said in study findings published in npj Breast Cancer. The findings may help guide the development of even more personalized treatments and address some aspects of cancer’s disparate burden on certain populations.
For patients and their care teams, transitions are an integral part of the cancer journey. Patients may be moving from inpatient to outpatient care, an acute care setting to a community-based setting, hospital care to nursing home care, or even active treatment to ongoing survivorship. Care transitions can be times of intense information overload for patients, caregivers, and the healthcare team.
On September 29, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an updated safety communication to consumers, healthcare providers, and facilities about certain surgical N95 respirators and masks manufactured by Owens and Minor (O&M) Halyard. FDA updated its recommendations for the products based on new data and information from O&M Halyard.
In April 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the country’s first formal National Cancer Plan (NCP) under the Cancer Moonshot. It serves as a framework to guide the broad contributions across society in the United States’ work to “end cancer as we know it.”