The ONS Podcast

“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 i…

“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 …

“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 …

“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, …

“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…

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 patien…

“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.…

“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 sic…

“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 …

“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…

“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 consi…

“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,…

“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 forw…

“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 c…

“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 promo…

“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 …

“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 interpr…

“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 c…

“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 Kno…

“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 …