Oncology nursing community Oncology Nurses Can Have a Global Impact—in Bhutan and Beyond August 24, 2017
Topic Safe handling Safe handling What Oncology Nurses Need to Know About USP <800> Because of the risks and dangers associated with hazardous drugs, guidelines surrounding their use and handling have been issued since 1981. Since then, several organizations, including ONS (in tandem with the American Society of Clinical Oncology), the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, have released guidelines for various providers who handle the drugs. July 11, 2017 Safe handling What Safe Handling and Administration Requirements Apply to Immunotherapy? In a supplement to the April 2017 issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, ONS released its first set of recommendations for nurse education and safe handling principles regarding immunotherapy administration. ONS recommendations are based on best-available evidence and the anecdotal experiences of professionals at cancer centers with varied experiences in immunotherapy administration. June 27, 2017 Standards How Do I Move Standards of Care Into Practice? April 26, 2017 Safety What Are ONS’s Recommendations for Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs? Research suggests that healthcare workers who handle hazardous drugs may experience acute effects such as skin rashes or more chronic effects including adverse reproductive events and malignancy. This has led numerous government agencies to make recommendations regarding the safe handling of hazardous drugs. April 25, 2017 Safety Do You Know the Best Practices for Targeted Medication Safety? The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has added five new best practices and revised two existing ones for safe medication administration in its recent release of the 2016-2017 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals. February 07, 2017 Clinical practice What Is Chemotherapy Competence Versus Chemotherapy Certification? The ONS clinical inbox frequently receives questions about whether nurses need to be “chemotherapy certified” to give specific chemotherapy and/or biotherapy agents. January 28, 2017 Clinical practice What Is ONS’s Stance on Handling Chemotherapy While Pregnant, Breastfeeding, or Trying to Conceive? One of the questions that ONS commonly receives in the clinical inbox is whether nurses who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or trying to conceive can safely administer or handle chemotherapy and other hazardous drugs. January 03, 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting Incorporating Advanced Practitioners Into Team-Based Oncology Care During a session presented at the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting that discussed team-based oncology care, ONS member Wendy H. Vogel, MSN, FNP, AOCNP®, an oncology nurse practitioner at Wellmont Cancer Institute in Kingsport, TN, discussed how advanced practice providers can be involved in the care team process. June 06, 2016 Patient safety Transparency Makes a Difference When Creating a Culture of Safety Have you ever made a mistake in nursing? Well, I have and want to share my experience, feelings, and outcome. When this happened, all that I kept thinking was, “Did I harm my patient?” Maybe that sounds familiar to you. I think we can all say that we went into nursing to help others, not harm them. June 06, 2016 Patient safety Respecting Hazardous Drugs Protects Nurses, Patients and Eliminates Fear A recent article on the Scrubs website, “Chemotherapy Drugs are Killing Nurses” shared important facts and concerns regarding the handling of hazardous drugs. It also highlighted the need for comprehensive education and collaboration to establish a culture of safety around the use of these drugs by building respect, not fear, for hazardous drugs in the workplace. April 18, 2016 Policies and procedures New Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Guidelines May Require Changes for Your Practice Healthcare workers who prepare and administer hazardous drugs have further incentive to follow the recommended precautions with the February 1, 2016, release of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Chapter 800. Find out more about these recommended precautions. March 01, 2016 Oral adherence No Ordinary Pill Oral agents are changing oncology treatment, and along with it, who’s responsible for the safety of those treatments. “With oral agents, the onus is now primarily on patients and their caregivers,” says ONS member Kathy Leifeste. This is quite a shift from the nurse-administered IV chemotherapy and biotherapy we’ve grown accustomed to. March 01, 2014 Clinical practice The Case of the Hyperthermic Hypodermic Erin arrives in your injection clinic for her monthly injection of fulvestrant. She tells you that her regular nurse always warms the drug before the injection by wrapping it in a warm pack because it lessens the discomfort during the injection. She says her nurse also told her it makes the medication easier to administer. What would you do? August 20, 2013 Chemotherapy Risk of Miscarriage Is Increased for Nurses Handling Chemotherapy April 04, 2012 Chemotherapy Chemotherapy Administration in Non-Oncology Settings What has long been a role solely of oncology nurses is now being performed by nurses around the hospital: April 01, 2012 Trending Topics Treatments Safety Research Standards ONS Congress Clinical practice U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Immunotherapy Cancer research Oncology nursing community View All Topics
Safe handling What Oncology Nurses Need to Know About USP <800> Because of the risks and dangers associated with hazardous drugs, guidelines surrounding their use and handling have been issued since 1981. Since then, several organizations, including ONS (in tandem with the American Society of Clinical Oncology), the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, have released guidelines for various providers who handle the drugs. July 11, 2017
Safe handling What Safe Handling and Administration Requirements Apply to Immunotherapy? In a supplement to the April 2017 issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, ONS released its first set of recommendations for nurse education and safe handling principles regarding immunotherapy administration. ONS recommendations are based on best-available evidence and the anecdotal experiences of professionals at cancer centers with varied experiences in immunotherapy administration. June 27, 2017
Safety What Are ONS’s Recommendations for Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs? Research suggests that healthcare workers who handle hazardous drugs may experience acute effects such as skin rashes or more chronic effects including adverse reproductive events and malignancy. This has led numerous government agencies to make recommendations regarding the safe handling of hazardous drugs. April 25, 2017
Safety Do You Know the Best Practices for Targeted Medication Safety? The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has added five new best practices and revised two existing ones for safe medication administration in its recent release of the 2016-2017 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals. February 07, 2017
Clinical practice What Is Chemotherapy Competence Versus Chemotherapy Certification? The ONS clinical inbox frequently receives questions about whether nurses need to be “chemotherapy certified” to give specific chemotherapy and/or biotherapy agents. January 28, 2017
Clinical practice What Is ONS’s Stance on Handling Chemotherapy While Pregnant, Breastfeeding, or Trying to Conceive? One of the questions that ONS commonly receives in the clinical inbox is whether nurses who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or trying to conceive can safely administer or handle chemotherapy and other hazardous drugs. January 03, 2017
ASCO Annual Meeting Incorporating Advanced Practitioners Into Team-Based Oncology Care During a session presented at the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting that discussed team-based oncology care, ONS member Wendy H. Vogel, MSN, FNP, AOCNP®, an oncology nurse practitioner at Wellmont Cancer Institute in Kingsport, TN, discussed how advanced practice providers can be involved in the care team process. June 06, 2016
Patient safety Transparency Makes a Difference When Creating a Culture of Safety Have you ever made a mistake in nursing? Well, I have and want to share my experience, feelings, and outcome. When this happened, all that I kept thinking was, “Did I harm my patient?” Maybe that sounds familiar to you. I think we can all say that we went into nursing to help others, not harm them. June 06, 2016
Patient safety Respecting Hazardous Drugs Protects Nurses, Patients and Eliminates Fear A recent article on the Scrubs website, “Chemotherapy Drugs are Killing Nurses” shared important facts and concerns regarding the handling of hazardous drugs. It also highlighted the need for comprehensive education and collaboration to establish a culture of safety around the use of these drugs by building respect, not fear, for hazardous drugs in the workplace. April 18, 2016
Policies and procedures New Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Guidelines May Require Changes for Your Practice Healthcare workers who prepare and administer hazardous drugs have further incentive to follow the recommended precautions with the February 1, 2016, release of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Chapter 800. Find out more about these recommended precautions. March 01, 2016
Oral adherence No Ordinary Pill Oral agents are changing oncology treatment, and along with it, who’s responsible for the safety of those treatments. “With oral agents, the onus is now primarily on patients and their caregivers,” says ONS member Kathy Leifeste. This is quite a shift from the nurse-administered IV chemotherapy and biotherapy we’ve grown accustomed to. March 01, 2014
Clinical practice The Case of the Hyperthermic Hypodermic Erin arrives in your injection clinic for her monthly injection of fulvestrant. She tells you that her regular nurse always warms the drug before the injection by wrapping it in a warm pack because it lessens the discomfort during the injection. She says her nurse also told her it makes the medication easier to administer. What would you do? August 20, 2013
Chemotherapy Chemotherapy Administration in Non-Oncology Settings What has long been a role solely of oncology nurses is now being performed by nurses around the hospital: April 01, 2012
