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This month is Lung Cancer Awareness Month!
Lung Cancer Awareness Month is an interesting time for me. Up until only a few months ago, I was working in a healthcare market research agency doing analytics in different online disease communities. This...
NP with breast cancer: “Listen to your patients”
By Julie Cullen, Managing Editor, American Nurse Today
In 2015, Bridgett Spillers, FNP-C, was diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer. Bridgett recently shared a bit of her story with American Nurse Today. We specifically wanted to...
Hyperbaric oxygen may relieve radiation cystitis symptoms
A recent study published in The Lancet Oncology may reveal a new way to treat patients with radiation cystitis symptoms.
The researchers explored the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to relieve radiation cystitis symptoms for...
Male breast cancer: Putting a spotlight on a rare condition
Efforts to fight breast cancer have been ongoing for years, and for good reason: It’s the leading second cause of cancer death in women. Men, however, frequently are overlooked when it comes to discussions...
Supporting patients with end-of-life conversations
To: Ethics inbox
From: Widowed nurse Subject: Medical aid in dying
I’m an operating room RN who has worked in a hospital environment for over 25 years. Five years ago, my husband died from pancreatic cancer....
Academy designates five nurse leaders as Living Legends
The American Academy of Nursing will officially designate five exceptional leaders as Living Legends at the Academy’s Transforming Health, Driving Policy conference in Washington, DC, on October 24. As change agents and champions, these...
Creating the future through bold decision-making
ONS leaders employ an innovative approach to strategic planning.
DEVELOPING and articulating a clear vision that drives action for an organization are key leadership competencies for executive leaders in every sector of healthcare. Our systems,...
Your brain on optimism
Positive nursing role models know how to train their brain to be more optimistic.
SPENDING TIME around positive nurses is contagious and heartwarming. The more you encounter them, the more you want of their time....
FDA announces Project Orbis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced Project Orbis, a new initiative from the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), which will provide “a framework for concurrent submission and review of oncology...
An innovative care approach to full code hospice patients
What may seem like a contradiction to you may be a comfort to patients.
Takeaways:
Hospice is not synonymous with “do not resuscitate.”
Despite potential contradictions to full code and hospice, you can promote comfort...
Music and the power to heal
By Julie Cullen, Managing Editor, American Nurse Today
The other day I read an article in The New York Times about music therapy. The article included the story of a nurse who had been diagnosed...
Total pancreatectomy with islet cell autologous transplantation: A treatment modality for patients with chronic...
ONE IN FIVE patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis will develop recurrent acute pancreatitis, and one in three of them will develop chronic pancreatitis (CP), which increases the risk for pancreatic cancer.
Chronic pancreatitis also may...
Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation Year Two Highlights
On May 1, 2017, ANA Enterprise launched a bold initiative—Healthy Nurse, Healthy NationTM (HNHN) Grand Challenge—to transform the health of our nation by first improving the health of its 4 million RNs. As we...