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Home Isolation Feels Familiar: Self Portrait of The Artist

  This is a little pencil sketch I made years ago, after completing chemotherapy, and my hair grew back in … More

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art and nursing, artist, cancer, COVID 19, Home Isolation, self portrait

Fast Food Nation: When Customer Service Competes with Patient Safety

Calculating chemotherapy doses by surface area (m2) or kilograms was a smooth transition for me, a former pediatric intensive care … More

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cancer, chemotherapy, customer service, drive-thru health care, fast food, health care, nurse bloggers, oncology nurse blogs, oncology nursing

Nurses & Doctors: Make Appreciation Reciprocal

Few life-threatening or terminal diseases present themselves in otherwise healthy, alert, and charming hosts the way cancer does. From the … More

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appreciation, cancer, cancer diagnosis, communication, doctors and nurses, effective workplace communication, help for new nurses, nurse blogs, nurse lifestyle, oncologists, oncology nursing, professional relationship

Helping Families Manage End of Life Pain at Home

In the oncology infusion clinic, sometimes I provide care for patients whose pain medication management is not under their control. … More

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cancer, Julianna Paradisi, long acting and short acting pain medications, narcotics and opioids for pain control, nurse blogs, oncology nursing, oncology rn blog, pain management, pain medication

Alopecia And The Pirate

As I write this post, some scientists are searching for ways to prevent male baldness through genetic manipulation. Others are … More

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alopecia, breast cancer patient, cancer, goddess, identity, nurse bloggers, oncology rn blog, patient education, pirate style, pirates, rn blog, side effects of chemotherapy

Nurses: Telling Our Stories Can Help Others

In art school, I once presented a painting entitled, “Recuerdo (I Remember)” for class critique. The painting was inspired by my … More

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Art, art and nursing, breast cancer, breast cancer patient, cancer, class critique, health, intensive care nurse, oncology nursing, oncology rn blog, painting, pediatric intensive care nursing, pediatric nursing, rn blog, stillbirth, story telling

Diet As Tolerated: This Week’s Post for TheONC

In yesterday’s post A Social License III: Nursing Synchronicity I write about an impromptu discussion with a young woman in a … More

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cancer, health, nurse blogs, oncology nurses, oncology nursing, oncology rn blog, rn blog, synchronicity, TheONC

A Social License III: Nursing Synchronicity

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves” Carl Jung I love … More

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cancer, Carl Jung, health, nurse blogs, oncology nursing, RN blogs, significant coincidence, synchronicity

TheONC.org: Resources and More for Oncology Nurses

By now, readers know I blog weekly for TheONC. This week I write about dual identities as nurse and artist/writer … More

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blogging, cancer, oncology nursing, oncology resources, TheONC

A Get Well Card for Warren Buffet

As an oncology nurse, if I listened to the family members of an affluent, elderly patient debating at his bedside … More

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cancer, humanity in healthcare, oncology nurse blogs, patient advocacy, politics of health care, prostate cancer, Warren Buffet

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JParadisiRN is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in painting and writing. Her paintings and short stories have been published nationally. She has exhibited artwork in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Julianna frequently contributes illustrated blog posts to Off The Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing. She has been a nurse for 33 years, specializing in Pediatric Intensive Care, Oncology Infusion, and as an Oncology Nurse Navigator.

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