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ONS member Christine Rimkus, RN, MSN, AOCN®, clinical nurse specialist for the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and member of the St. Louis ONS Chapter, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS staff writer/producer, to discuss doxorubicin—otherwise known as the red devil—chemotherapy administration, what nurses need to know about vesicants in practice, and how to support and advocate for patients receiving doxorubicin treatment.

ONS Past President Pamela (PJ) Haylock, PhD, RN, FAAN, editorial board member for the American Journal of Nursing, member of the San Antonio ONS Chapter, and coeditor with ONS Past President Carol Curtiss, MSN, RN-BC, of Cancer Survivorship: Interprofessional, Patient-Centered Approaches to the Seasons of Survival, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS staff writer/producer, to discuss how nurses can prepare patients for cancer survivorship, understand the different seasons of survival, and overcome challenges along the way.

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 others are linked in the episode notes.

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.

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. 

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 this podcast episode through an educational grant. 

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. 

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.

ONS members Joan Such Lockhart, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, professor and director of the MSN nursing education program at Duquesne University’s School 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 Central Louisiana ONS Chapter, join Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss why all oncology nurses should consider pursuing higher education. 

Tony Ellis, CAE, executive director of the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC), joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss changes to ONCC certification for 2021.