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Topic Patient Support Oncology Nurse Advisor Navigation Summit Lay Patient Navigators May Provide a Solution for an Overworked Nursing Climate With the growing demand for cancer services and a shrinking workforce, new ideas and innovative approaches are needed. During a session at the Oncology Nurse Advisor Navigation Summit, ONS member Jean B. Sellers, RN, MSN, administrative clinical director at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, discussed the current landscape and future of navigation services. June 15, 2017 Breast cancer Patient Factors Should Guide Breast Cancer Screening Intervals Mammography screening recommendations should be based on risk, rather than age, according to the results of a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. November 15, 2016 Cancer treatments FDA Offers Expanded Access to Patients in Need of Treatment Patients who are seriously ill and have exhausted their treatment options often turn to drugs that have yet to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These investigational drugs can offer alternatives to patients who have physician approval. July 27, 2016 Clinical Practice Screen for Distress in Patients With Cancer Living with cancer is much like a maze, Watson said. Even though cancer care is rooted in generalizable knowledge, including specific types of cancer, the stage and pattern of progression, evidence-based guidelines, and side effects and risk factors, a balance must be struck between the general and the specific by focusing on how each applies to the individual patient. April 30, 2015 Clinical Practice We Need to Focus on Being With Our Patients Recently, I was caring for a patient diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. He was a young man with tattoos and a muscular frame whose strong body was just beginning to fail him. In the course of making my hourly rounds I asked if there was anything he needed that I could provide for him. "I wish you could just tell me I won't die." February 04, 2014 Patient empowerment Dying, Tea, and Pastries: Death Cafes Invite Often-Shunned Discussions It's not a support group. It's not grief counseling. It is, however, a safe place to talk about death and dying. Oh, and there's tea and cookies (or cake!). June 10, 2013 Trending Topics Safety Research Standards Treatments ONS Congress Clinical Practice Immunotherapy U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Cancer research Nursing education View All Topics
Oncology Nurse Advisor Navigation Summit Lay Patient Navigators May Provide a Solution for an Overworked Nursing Climate With the growing demand for cancer services and a shrinking workforce, new ideas and innovative approaches are needed. During a session at the Oncology Nurse Advisor Navigation Summit, ONS member Jean B. Sellers, RN, MSN, administrative clinical director at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, discussed the current landscape and future of navigation services. June 15, 2017
Breast cancer Patient Factors Should Guide Breast Cancer Screening Intervals Mammography screening recommendations should be based on risk, rather than age, according to the results of a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. November 15, 2016
Cancer treatments FDA Offers Expanded Access to Patients in Need of Treatment Patients who are seriously ill and have exhausted their treatment options often turn to drugs that have yet to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These investigational drugs can offer alternatives to patients who have physician approval. July 27, 2016
Clinical Practice Screen for Distress in Patients With Cancer Living with cancer is much like a maze, Watson said. Even though cancer care is rooted in generalizable knowledge, including specific types of cancer, the stage and pattern of progression, evidence-based guidelines, and side effects and risk factors, a balance must be struck between the general and the specific by focusing on how each applies to the individual patient. April 30, 2015
Clinical Practice We Need to Focus on Being With Our Patients Recently, I was caring for a patient diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. He was a young man with tattoos and a muscular frame whose strong body was just beginning to fail him. In the course of making my hourly rounds I asked if there was anything he needed that I could provide for him. "I wish you could just tell me I won't die." February 04, 2014
Patient empowerment Dying, Tea, and Pastries: Death Cafes Invite Often-Shunned Discussions It's not a support group. It's not grief counseling. It is, however, a safe place to talk about death and dying. Oh, and there's tea and cookies (or cake!). June 10, 2013
