The ONS Podcast

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 subje...

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...

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...

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 cl...

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 Assi...

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 other...

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...

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 Kevi...

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...

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: " Fireflie...

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:...

ONS members Joan Such Lockhart, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, professor and director of the MSN  n ursing  e ducation  p rogram at Duquesne University 's  S chool 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 Cent...

Tony Ellis, CAE, executive director of the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporatio n (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 deve...

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 p...

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 o...

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...

Meet  the candidates running for office on the ONS Board of Directors in the 2021 election  i n  this bonus episode  of the  Oncology Nursing Podcast .  Katrina Loutzenhiser, director of learning and development at ONS,  explain ed  the ONS Leadership Development Committee's  application and evaluation process, then  introduce d   the final slate of  candidates . E ach  candidate  shared a brief m...

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 thro...

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...

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD,  d irector of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the 27  i nstitutes  and  c enters  of the National Institutes of Healt h , 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  resour...

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:  "Fir...

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...

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...

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...

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 on...