I Wish I’d Said It

I’m glad laughter is the best medicine. It might be all the health care I can afford. -bumper sticker

New This Week at TheONC & at Scrubs Magazine

This week for TheONC I blog about nurses helping patients stuck at anger in their grief process. These nonviolent patients are…

Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note carefully just what it is about your work that the critics…

Note: A reader emailed a request I write about bringing beauty and creativity to nursing practice. Here goes… Finding beauty…

Hindsight is an exact science. Guy Bellamy

In oncology, nurses are often faced with hanging chemotherapy, assisting with surgeries, or radiation treatments for grim diagnoses most likely…

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. – Gandhi

Whether you’re an aspiring artist, writer, or cancer patient, support groups can offer encouragement and resources to help you on…

Diplomacy is as necessary to successful nursing as IV skills, medication administration accuracy, and critical thinking. In fact, diplomacy is…

Telling Our Stories to Benefit Others is my latest blog post for TheONC; the online community for oncology care teams. Registering…