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