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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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