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The Outstanding Employer Award acknowledges employers who honor and show exemplary support for their oncology nurses

Raleigh, NC

Oral anticancer medications (OAMs) have been used for decades to treat and reduce the risk of a variety of cancers. With the exponential increase in the number of oral medications developed, including cytotoxic agents, hormonal agents, small-molecule inhibitors, and agents targeted at receptors that regulate cellular differentiation and growth, cancer programs are developing workflows, education, and symptom management programs to ensure that patients follow their prescribed treatments. As a result, clinicians need evidence-based guidelines to assist patients in achieving the best possible outcomes as nonadherence to OAMs can lead to suboptimal responses to therapy.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2008) defined palliative care as “patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, minimizing, and treating suffering. Palliative care throughout the continuum of illness involves addressing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and to facilitate patient autonomy, access to information, and choice” (p. 32204).