Showing posts with label Oncology Patients. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Nurse as Writer, Writer as Nurse Theresa Laurel Brown, BA, MA, PhD, BSN, RN, OCN®

Nurse as Writer, Writer as Nurse

Theresa Laurel Brown, BA, MA, PhD, BSN, RN, OCN®

 

The first column I ever wrote for The New York Times, called “Perhaps Death Is Proud, More Reason to Savor Life,” generated a firestorm of attention. Literary agents sent me e-mails, my piece hit The New York Times “most e-mailed” list, and within three days I’d been offered a book contract with a major publisher.

 

The column described a sudden and grisly cardiac arrest where a patient with lung cancer exsanguinated. I felt happy and lucky when The New York Times accepted it. I thought the piece would come out and my friends would read it, and that’s where the endeavor would end. Instead, from that one piece, I ended up becoming a professional writer about nursing. My book, Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between (HarperCollins), was published in June 2010 and comes out in paperback in April 2011. In addition, I am a regular contributor to The New York Times’ Well blog.

 

Whenever I talk about my two careers, people often ask the same questions. I have answered some of those recurring questions here, in part, because that is what interests other nurses, but also because those questions get at the heart of how I combine these two very different jobs.

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Oncology (Cancer) Nurses on: The Nurse Friendly

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Alicia Sable Hunt, Founder & President of Sable's Foods, @SablesFoods Connecticut:""As a Registered Nurse, it is my role to collaborate with the healthcare team to educate the patient and provide them with the skills they need to travel the cancer journey. After years of working with cancer patients, I decided to develop a handcrafted bar focusing on their nutritional, taste and texture needs. I am proud to offer my bars to the cancer population as part of a nutritionally balanced diet." – Sable, RN and Founder"
"Nutritious Foods Created For The Cancer Community. Founded, owned & run by an Oncology Nurse."
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Annette Tersigni RN, Yoga Nursing®:"I am the founder of Yoga Nurse Medical Yoga and Stress Management and am the creator of the enlightening new field of Yoga Nursing® and the Yoga Nursing Institute. Yoga Nursing is the marriage of modern nursing science with the ancient science of yoga. My programs are endorsed by lots of doctors and health care providers as a safe therapy to decrease pain and suffering and help folks to find peace instead of going to pieces. I have dedicated the past 16 years educating people around the world on leading healthier, spiritual lifestyles and with a dose of tough love and loads of laughter helped them to WAKE UP and GET CONSCIOUS NOW.

I am a sought after no barriers heart felt speaker, coach, teacher and writer and am featured extensively in the media including in the Associated Press and on NBC, CBS, Fox News affiliates and have been interviewed on national TV by Arielle Ford as one of America's Experts. I am producing, writing, and acting in several DVD documentary/educational projects: I am training and coaching other nurses, yoga teachers and health professionals throughout the USA and Canada to be Yoga Nursing Therapists and I lead fantabulous Yoga and Juice fasting Makeover Retreats on the magnificent Pyrate laden Crystal Coast of North Carolina. My programs our hip, conscious, filled with hilarious humor, enlightening and designed to inspire and leave a legacy. This is the most prolific, jamming and juicy time of my life and I get to do it all by serving others. SERVING RULES!"
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See also: Breast Cancer Debra L. Fore, RN, MSN, Vista HealthCare Consulting:"Legal Nurse Consultant, primarily Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury, Social Security Claimants' Representative."
Specialty areas: Adult Critical Care, Disability, Legal Nurse Consultant, Medical Malpractice, Oncology, Personal Injury, Renal Dialysis, Social Security Claims Telemetry-Step Down
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Ann Wallace, BA, RN: Legal Nurse Consultant, Tennessee, Emergency Department, Nurse Consultant, Neuro Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Oncology
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Joni Watson @joniwatson Austin, Texas:"Nonprofit Director, RN, OCN, wife, mom, Christ lover, shoe junkie, reader, blogger, and oh, so much more."
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/joniwatson
http://www.nursetopia.net

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Claire Westwood, RGN, RSCN, BA Health Studies (UK), happynurses.co.uk:"Claire Westwood is a trained nurse and inspirational life coach. She has been a nurse since 1985 and has worked in a variety of areas in adult and paediatric care. She is now a life coach and the founder of “happynurses” with a mission to create a million happy nurses. Claire works with individual nurses who feel overwhelmed and ‘stuck’ in life, enabling them to create fulfilling, balanced lives for themselves. She also enables employers who have high levels of absence or high staff turnover to raise their staff morale and reduce sickness and stress amongst their teams."
happynurses.co.uk
Claire Westwood, RGN, RSCN, BA Health Studies (UK)
Kenilworth House
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK
E-mail Address: claire@happynurses.co.uk
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/westwood/

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Oncology Nursing, Johns Hopkins Nursing:"As one of the National Cancer Institute's designated comprehensive cancer centers, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins is recognized as one of the world's best. Nurses use knowledge and research to set standards for oncology care. Our unique environment affords nurses the opportunity to practice ambulatory, acute, critical, and palliative care using state-of-the-art technology. Emphasis is placed on providing individualized patient and family-centered care. We offer support to patients which focuses on living with cancer."
Johns Hopkins University and Health System
720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
1-800-765-5447, careers@jhmi.edu
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/nursing/specialties_units/oncology/index.html

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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Monday, March 21, 2011

A Day in the Life of an Oncologist: “How Do You What You Do?” | GRACE :: Coping with Cancer / Social Work

On the rare occasion I’m in a social situation with people who aren’t in medicine (yes, I’m sure you know I don’t get out much, so this is largely from remote memory), the most common question that follows my answer to what I do for a living is, “How can you do what you do?”.   People imagine the obvious low points of telling people about a new cancer, about delivering bad news and discussing people’s difficult cancer-related symptoms and potential to decline despite our best efforts.  It’s fair to wonder what keeps us going.  So I thought I’d provide a brief sketch of a day in my clinic, which offers several ups along with the downs everyone might envision as dominating life in the oncology clinic.

   Work starts at about 7AM. At least the drive in avoids the big traffic.  I review my schedule, briefly reviewing the recent records of the people coming in that day, including a more detailed review of the records of new patients, including reviewing their scans that are usually delivered in anticipation of their arrival in my clinic.  Check e-mail, sign head shots in response to fan mail*, etc. (*in truth, it is perhaps technically more accurate to say that I sign dozens of orders for prescription refills and lab orders).

   Before clinic starts, I head to the hospital to round on inpatients of mine in the hospital.  One is a young man with testicular cancer who is doing fine on his chemo, though he’s grown weary of the hospital food after three admissions lasting 5 days each for inpatient chemo.  Fortunately, this is his last planned round of chemo, so the end is in sight.  And he knows I’m not responsible for the food.  At least his nausea is so well controlled that he’s interested in eating.

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Friday, February 18, 2011

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