"Since gastrointestinal complications are so broad, you will see these types of complications in really any oncology setting," ONS member Kara Freedman, MS, RN, AGCNS-BC, PCCN, OCN®, clinical nurse specialist in ambulatory GI surgery/medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a discussion about managing gastrointestinal complications. You can earn free NCPD contact hours after liste...
Jul 21, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 269
"If we're not driving our own research agenda and we're not asking the questions we see as important, we are not realizing the full potential of nursing. We know, because we are with patients, what the issues are for patients, for families, and for communities. We have to be able to say, 'Nope, this is the question.'" Margaret (Peg) Rosenzweig, PhD, FNP-BC, AOCNP®, ONS's scholar-in-residence and professor at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCN...
Jul 14, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 268
"I think the take-home message here, though, is to have very specific guidelines at your institution to manage both CRS and ICANS. The protocols should be readily available to all practitioners who may participate in the care of these patients," ONS member Phyllis McKiernan, MSN, APN, OCN®, advanced practice provider at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, told Lenise Taylor, MN, RN, AOCNS®, BMTCN®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS. McKiernan's...
Jul 07, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 267
"We need to continue to remind everyone that reporting culture improves safety, that events are usually because of a system or process gap, and there is a clear difference between a system gap and neglectful or at-risk behavior," ONS member Klara Culmone, MSN, RN, OCN®, assistant nurse manager at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, NY, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a discussion about oncology nurses' and leaders' responsibilities in...
Jun 30, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 266
"Sometimes you think, 'Oh, these are just bladder patients; it's different.' But it might not be different. They still have a cancer diagnosis; this is still going to be a very fearful and unsettling time for that patient and their caregivers," Tiffany Kurtz, MSN, RN, OCN®, manager of outpatient oncology at Summa Health Cancer Institute in Akron, OH, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS. Kurtz discussed intravesical administration and oncology nurses'...
Jun 23, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 265
"The mental and physical health of the healthcare team, especially the nurses, has to come first because if you are not physically and mentally and spiritually in a good place, you cannot help other people. We're going to have less good health care, we are going to have more errors, we're going to have less safety, and we are going to have another 100,000 nurses leaving the field," Matthew Loscalzo, LCSW, executive director of People and Enterprise Transformation, emeritus professor of supportiv...
Jun 16, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 264
An essential act of well-being, the practice of storytelling creates a social connection that fosters a sense of community and mutual support in both the storyteller and listener. During the Second Annual ONS Storytelling session held at the 48th Annual ONS Congress® in April 2023, ONS members Sarah Lewis, MNE, RN, OCN®, palliative care nurse navigator at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland; Crystal Johnson, RN, BSN, OCN®, patient engagement liaison at Genmab who lives in Ohio; Susi...
Jun 09, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 263
"Being an ally means you're coming from a place where you know what issues are going on, you stay up to date about what's happening in the world, and just because you don't identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, doesn't mean that you can't teach about what's going on," Beau Amaya, MSN, RN, OCN®, associate director of patient and caregiver education at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS. Am...
Jun 02, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 262
"Just like with anything we do in oncology, a lot of education is required. Nurses and coordinators are critical to start the education and provide effective resources that are reinforced throughout the treatment," ONS member Beth Faiman, PhD, MSN, APN-BC, AOCN®, BMTCN®, FAAN, FAPO, advanced practice provider at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, told Lenise Taylor, MN, RN, AOCNS®, BMTCN®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about how to address knowledge gaps and barriers to pract...
May 26, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 261
"I think it's important to ensure that you consider each person uniquely. Because no matter how much I know or the nurse knows about the population, everybody is a little bit different. It's really important to personalize every approach and ask them what they know and meet them where they are," ONS member Reneé Kurz, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, AOCNP®, director of clinical research operations at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology...
May 19, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 260
"I think there's a big misconception that health literacy means someone's ability to read or write, and really it's much more than that," ONS member Regina Carlisle, MS, BSN, RN, OCN®, senior cancer information nurse at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, OH, and member of the Cleveland ONS Chapter, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS. Carlisle discussed developing and providing patient education across various formats for patien...
May 12, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 259
"The reason that oncology nursing developed at the moment it did was from you and the other few people who were real leaders in your field. . . . It happened in that particular moment because of you and [the other founding members of ONS]," George Hill, MD, MA, DLitt, Captain, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy Reserve (retired), told Cindi Cantril, MPH, RN, OCN®, CBCN, founding board member and first vice president of ONS. Hill was a monumental supporter of ONS's founding and incorporation in 1975, and t...
May 05, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 258
"The bell can have so much more meaning and significance than just the end of treatment. So, work with your patients to define what the significance of that bell can mean," ONS member Monica Cfarku, RN, MSN, BMTCN®, CCM, NE-BC, associate vice president and chief of oncology nursing at Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, NC, and member of the North Carolina Triangle ONS Chapter, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS. Cfarku discussed the ethics of the bell...
Apr 28, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 257
"When someone is faced with a cancer diagnosis, you want to really try to work to make that patient an active part of their care team. Understand that there are things out of their control, but there are also things that are within their control. You can teach them how to manage fatigue associated with anemia, or how to prevent falls. These are the things you can do to prevent infection; these are the nutrition things you should focus on to help you feel your best," ONS member Kimberly Miller, B...
Apr 21, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 256
Oncology nurses provide remarkable care every day, without even realizing the impact it has on their patients and families. Organizations like the DAISY Foundation provide a meaningful way for patients and nursing peers to recognize and thank the inspiring oncology nurses who've gone beyond their typical role. Erica Fischer-Cartlidge, DNP, RN, AOCNS®, EBP-CH, chief clinical officer at ONS, sat down with ONS member and DAISY Award recipient Laurie Rudolph, BSN, RN, OCN®, CBCN®, her nominator, Jam...
Apr 14, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 255
"Certification increases nurses' knowledge, ensures that they are up to date on cancer care, and helps them to be prepared to effectively manage symptoms associated with cancer and cancer treatments. They will acquire effective therapeutic communication skills while caring for people with cancer, their caregivers, and other members of the interprofessional team," ONS member Kerstin Scheper, DNP, RN-BC, OCN®, CHPN, interim assistant vice president at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Som...
Apr 07, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 254
"Nursing ethics is relationship centered because when your friend, family member, or colleague becomes a patient, that relationship can't be uninformed by how you know that person before they got sick. The first thing is to recognize you know them, and caring or them poses some fairly unique challenges in terms of, 'How do I maintain professional boundaries?'" Lucia D. Wocial, PhD, RN, FAAN, HEC-C, senior clinical ethicist at the Lynch Center for Ethics at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center ...
Mar 31, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 253
"Before you even get started, you have to do your checks. Just like you do with a regular systemic infusion. You're going to be doing your physical assessment prior to starting your patient, looking at your orders to make sure everything looks right, looking at the lab work," ONS member Emoke Karonis, MSN, RN, CRNI, clinical nurse specialist fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, said. "You have to be absolutely sure that day that patient is presenting to you in your s...
Mar 24, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 252
"The idea of early palliative care was really a strategy for preventing people from going through unnecessary and unwanted suffering, treatments, and things that were not consistent with their values and preferences. . . . For people who have a serious illness, it's not good to wait until you're facing these very critical decisions. You need to plan upfront," ONS member Marie Bakitas, DNS, APRN, FAAN, AOCN®, professor and associate dean for research and scholarship at the University of Alabama a...
Mar 17, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 251
"Sometimes when we talk about skin toxicities, it can get lost in translation for these patients when we start talking about nausea, vomiting, all those other things. . . . They don't take into consideration how serious these skin toxicities can be and how they can quickly get out of control if they're not reported to the medical team in a timely manner," ONS member George Ebanks, MSN, RN, OCN®, a medical oncology nurse in the Cutaneous Oncology Clinic at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL, told...
Mar 10, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 250
"We as oncology nurses have to understand who is this patient, where do they come from, and who is going to touch that patient, so that we can provide comprehensive, good care without these barriers, or at least to eliminate as many of these barriers as much as we can," ONS member Idalina Colburn, RN, OCN®, ONN-CG, nurse navigator at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a discussion about nursing...
Mar 03, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 249
"Evidence-based practice is asking the right clinical question, searching the evidence and then really appraising and determining what is the quality of the evidence, and synthesizing it to move forward with a recommendation or a possible implementation plan," Caroline Clark, MSN, APRN, OCN®, AG-CNS, director of evidence-based practice and inquiry at ONS, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGNCS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a discussion about the nurse's role in evidence-base...
Feb 24, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 248
"It's the oncology nurse who might be the only cheerleader this person has to keep them motivated moving forward. We need to make sure our patients' motivation and competence stay high so that they can stay on this journey of quitting," ONS member Maureen O'Brien, MS, RN, PMHCNS, NCTTP, a certified tobacco treatment specialist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGNCS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a discussion about...
Feb 17, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 247
"I love the motto, 'If you see a problem, you can solve a problem.' So, no matter what level you fall on on the clinical ladder or within your administration, you always have the opportunity to promote and create positive change and do that with the leadership support," ONS member Klara Culmone, MSN, RN, OCN®, assistant nurse manager at the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a d...
Feb 10, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 246
"The way I approach patient education conversations is to discuss it, address it, but not to emphasize it. I really like to focus on what the drug is. I mention if it's a biosimilar, I explain it, I give resources if they want it, but I really try to focus on the things that they're going to need to know in order to help be part of their care, but have readily available information to give them if they want more," ONS affiliate member Rowena (Moe) Schwartz, PharmD, BCOP, professor of pharmacy pr...
Feb 03, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 245
"When I draw the interprofessional team for the management of cardio-oncology patients, I always place nurses in the center of it, besides the patient, because nurses are the eyes and ears of interprofessional care 24 hours a day," ONS member Anecita Fadol, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FHKAN, associate professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about getting to "t...
Jan 27, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 244
"Cultural competence is about being able to deliver care while respecting and valuing the differences people bring with them to the table. Did we consider their uniqueness? Have we done our best to care for them in a way that's individualized?" Erica Fischer-Cartlidge, DNP, RN, AOCNS®, EBP-CH, chief clinical officer at ONS, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about cultural considerations that can arise in cancer care and how o...
Jan 20, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 243
"It's incumbent on us as nurses to stay informed about these newly approved drugs or new indications in drugs because we're the front line in helping these patients manage adverse events," Teresa Knoop, MSN, RN, AOCN®, nurse consultant in Nashville, TN, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about the latest updates and approvals in oncology pharmacology. You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and com...
Jan 13, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 242
"It's important for all nurses to advocate—for themselves, for their practice, for their profession, for their patients. Without the nursing community advocating for itself, no other entity will. It is the nurses' responsibility to be their own advocate," Alec Stone, MA, MPA, ONS director of government affairs, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about how you can advocate for oncology nursing with ONS. You can earn free NCPD c...
Jan 06, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 241
"When we are able to connect with the things that give us meaning in our life, it makes us stronger, it makes us happier, it makes our life more fulfilled," Caroline Peacock, ACPE certified educator, LCSW, Episcopal priest, and director of spiritual health and community care at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, GA, said in a conversation with Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS. Peacock discussed how oncology nurses can support ...
Dec 30, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 240
