ONS member Zac Pitts, MSN, NP-C, certified family nurse practitioner at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Druid Hills, GA, and member of the Metro Atlanta ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss what advanced practice providers need to know about billing for their services and updates to reimbursement through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The advertising messages in this episode are paid for by Sanofi Ge...
Apr 16, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 151
ONS member Marlon Garzo Saria, PhD, RN, FAAN, director of clinical education and professional practice at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, CA, ONS Leadership Development Committee member, and member of the Greater Los Angeles and South Bay ONS Chapters, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss career planning, which is also the subject of a 2021 ONS Congress™ session he copresented. Click the link in the episode notes to learn more. ...
Apr 09, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 150
ONS member Kayla Miller, MSN, CRNP, nurse practitioner at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania who oversees the nurse ambassador program for integrative health and member of the Pittsburgh ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss mind-body therapies, such as yoga, tai chi, and qigong, as integrative care for patients with cancer. The advertising messages in this episode are paid for by Soothing Scents. Episode Notes Che...
Apr 06, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 146
ONS member Randy Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing in Charlottesville and member of the Blue Ridge of Virginia ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss racial and other health disparities in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer. Astellas and Pfizer Inc. provided support for this podcast episode through an educational grant. Music Credit: " Fireflies and Stardust " by Kevin...
Apr 02, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 149
ONS member Martha Lassiter, MSN, RN, BMTCN®, AOCNS®, clinical nurse specialist of adult bone marrow transplant and hematologic malignancies at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, and member of the North Carolina Triangle ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss the home-based transplant program Duke offers as part of an ongoing clinical trial. The advertising messages in this episode are supported by the American College of Surgeons...
Mar 26, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 148
ONS members Trey Woods, MSN, NP- C, faculty administrator and instructor of radiation oncology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson; Bonnie Shaffer, DNP, RN, CNS, OCN®, clinical nurse specialist at St. Mary's Regional Hospital and Medical Center in Grand Junction, CO; and Marge Karas, MSN, RN, OCN®, CMSRN, staff nurse and nursing supervisor at the Wisconsin Emergency Assistance Volunteer Registry, join Anne Ireland, MSN, RN, AOCN®, CENP, director-at-large on the ONS board o...
Mar 19, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 147
ONS member Rae Norrod, MS, RN, AOCN®, CNS, manager of the oncology service line at Kettering Health Network in Kettering, OH, and member of the West Central Ohio ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss how to safely administer taxane chemotherapy treatments. This episode is part of an ongoing series about chemotherapy administration. The others are linked in the episode notes. Music Credit: " Fireflies and Stardust " by Kevin MacLeod License...
Mar 05, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 145
ONS member Jennifer Turcotte, RN, BSN, OCN®, clinic manager at New England Cancer Specialists in Scarborough, ME, and member of the Southern Maine ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss safety considerations and what nurses need to know when administering FOLFOX chemotherapy regimens. Music Credit: " Fireflies and Stardust " by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing prof...
Feb 19, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 143
ONS member Tammy Glover, MSN, RN, OCN®, nurse manager of home infusion at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia and member of the Bucks Montgomery Counties ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss best practices for home infusions and how oncology nurses can implement programs at their institution. Music Credit: " Fireflies and Stardust " by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing ...
Feb 12, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 142
ONS member Clara Beaver, MSN, RN, AOCNS®, ACNS-BC, oncology clinical nurse specialist at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, MI, and member of the Metro Detroit ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss issues in care coordination experienced in patients with advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer. Seagen Inc. provided support for this podcast episode through an educational grant. Music Credit: " Fireflies and Stardust " by Kevin MacL...
Feb 05, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 141
ONS member Debra Reis, MSN, RN, CNP, program coordinator for the healing care program at ProMedica Cancer Institute in Sylvania, OH, and member of the Toledo Area ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss how aromatherapy can mitigate cancer symptoms and treatment adverse events to help improve patients' quality of life. Music Credit: " Fireflies and Stardust " by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 Earn 0.5 contac...
Jan 29, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 140
ONS member Cecily Snyder, BSN, RN, OCN®, BMTCN®, transplant case manager of the blood and marrow transplantation program at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha and member of the Metro Omaha ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss T-cell therapy and how it's changed approaches to cancer treatment and patient management for oncology nurses. Music Credit: " Fireflies and Stardust " by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 Earn...
Jan 22, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 139
ONS members Joan Such Lockhart, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, professor and director of the MSN nursing education program at Duquesne University's School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, PA, and member of the Greater Pittsburgh ONS Chapter, and Melinda Oberleitner, DNS, RN, FAAN, dean at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's College of Nursing and Allied Health and member of the South Central Louisiana ONS Chapter, join Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss why al...
Jan 15, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Tony Ellis, CAE, executive director of the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC), joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss changes to ONCC certification for 2021. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by January 8, ...
Jan 08, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 137
ONS members Janet Van Cleave, PhD, of New York University's Rory Meyers College of Nursing in New York City, and Micah Skeens, PhD, RN, CPNP, of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH, the 2020 recipients of the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge in Oncology, join Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss how they made their projects a reality using the grant funding and how any nurse can work to make their innovative ideas a reali...
Jan 01, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 136
ONS member Betty Ferrell, PhD, MA, FAAN, FPCN, principal investigator of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project, director of the Division of Nursing Research and Education at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, and member of the Greater Los Angeles ONS Chapter, joins ONS President Nancy Houlihan, MA, RN, AOCN®, to discuss ELNEC's history and milestone of training more than one million nurses in palliative and end-of-life care. Then, ONS members share persona...
Dec 25, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 135
ONS members Meghan Coleman, DNP, CRNP, and Alison McDaniel, BSN, RN, OCN®, join Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss their Evidence-Based Quality Understanding in Pathology (EQUIP) project to solve unequal access to germline and somatic biomarker testing, which earned first place in the inaugural ONS Hackathon. The ONS Hackathon took place over two weeks in November 2020 and gave nurses a platform to develop innovative ways to address challenges in the deli...
Dec 18, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 134
Meet the candidates running for office on the ONS Board of Directors in the 2021 election in this bonus episode of the Oncology Nursing Podcast . Katrina Loutzenhiser, director of learning and development at ONS, explained the ONS Leadership Development Committee's application and evaluation process, then introduced the final slate of candidates. Each candidate shared a brief message on how, as a board member, they would advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. Candidates are presented in alpha...
Dec 15, 2020•12 min
ONS member Barbara Zoltick, CRNP, nurse practitioner at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and member of the Bucks-Montgomery Counties ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss nursing considerations for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer. Seagen Inc. provided support for this podcast episode through an educational grant. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Cre...
Dec 11, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 133
ONS member Joaquin Buitrago, PhD, MS, RN, OCN®, nurse educator at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and member of the Houston ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss multiple myeloma and its implications for nursing care, including the pathophysiology of the disease, treatment considerations, and clinical practice recommendations to promote the best patient outcomes. The development of this episode was supported by...
Dec 04, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, joins Nancy Houlihan, MA, RN, AOCN®, ONS president, to discuss PubMed, NLM's free database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics, and NLM's strategic plan for leveraging the library's resources to accelerate data-driven health care. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creat...
Nov 27, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 131
ONS member Deborah Thorpe, PhD, APRN, founder of and nurse supervisor at the Inn Between assisted living facility in Salt Lake City, UT, and member of the Intermountain ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss the ONS Guidelines™ for Opioid-Induced and Non-Opioid–Related Cancer Constipation, which published in November 2020. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 The planners...
Nov 20, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 130
ONS member Susan Yaguda, RN, MSN, nurse coordinator of integrative oncology at Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte, NC, and member of the Greater Charlotte Area ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss acupuncture and acupressure and what nurses need to know about those integrative therapies for patients with cancer. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 The planners and fa...
Nov 13, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 129
ONS member Lauren Suarez, RN, MSN, OCN®, CBCN®, nurse manager of radiation oncology at Miami Cancer Institute in Florida and member of the Miami-Dade ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss the ONS Guidelines™ for Cancer Treatment–Related Radiodermatitis and how oncology nurses can manage this treatment side effect. Suarez was also a member of the advisory panel that developed this clinical practice guideline, which published in November 202...
Nov 06, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 128
ONS member MiKaela Olsen, DNP, APRN-CNS, AOCNS®, FAAN, clinical nurse specialist in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Greenspring Oncology in Baltimore, MD, and member of the Mid-Chesapeake Bay Chapter ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss extravasation of antineoplastic agents used in cancer care and what oncology nurses need to know about administering vesicant chemotherapy. Olsen was the lead ed...
Oct 30, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 127
ONS member Moe Schwartz, PharmD, BCOP, professor of pharmacy practice in the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, ONS associate member, and member of the Cincinnati Tri-State ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss cancer drug trials, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals in 2020, and what oncology nurses need to know about the process for oncology drug development. The advertising messages...
Oct 23, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 126
ONS member Cathy Ollom, RN, MSN, AOCNS®, retired clinical nurse specialist and nurse educator at Miami Cancer Institute Baptist Health South Florida and retired member of the Miami-Dade ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss nurse education and training; the Oncology Academy, which Ollom created for experienced nurses entering the oncology field at her institution; and how to develop similar programs at your own workplace. Music Credit: "Fireflies a...
Oct 16, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 125
ONS member Diana McMahon, MSN, RN, OCN®, director for professional practice at the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University and member of the ONS Columbus Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss managing a multigenerational nursing staff and seeing beyond stereotypes to provide optimal care for patients with cancer. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attr...
Oct 09, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 124
ONS member Marcia Beck, ACNS-BC, CLT-LANA, clinical nurse coordinator of lymphedema at the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City and member of the ONS Greater Kansas City Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss the ONS Guideline™ for the Management of Cancer Treatment-Related Lymphedema. Marcia was a member of the panel that developed the guidelines, which published in September 2020. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin M...
Oct 02, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Norman "Ned" Sharpless, MD, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), joins Lisa Kennedy Sheldon, PhD, ANP-BC, AOCNP®, FAAN, ONS's clinical and scientific affairs liaison, to discuss NCI's COVID-19 coronavirus research efforts, how the agency is partnering with oncology nurses to understand the best care for patients with COVID-19 and cancer, nursing innovation during the pandemic, and the implications of delayed screening and care on future cancer incidence rates. Music Credit: "Fireflie...
Sep 25, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 122
