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10/08/21 • 38 min
ONS member Theresa Latchford, RN, MS, AOCNS®, BMTCN®, clinical nurse specialist at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, CA, and member of the Silicon Valley ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss cytokine release syndrome and its associated immunotherapies. This episode is part of a new series about oncologic emergencies. We’ll add a link to future episodes in the show notes after the second episode next month.
Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod
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The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities.
Theresa Latchford discloses receiving a speaker honoraria from Kite Gilead and Bristol Myers Squibb. The financial relationship has been mitigated. No other planners or faculty members have anything to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of NCPD by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Episode Notes
Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- NCPD contact hours are not available for this episode.
- More Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes on oncologic emergencies
- ONS Voice article: A Body of Evidence Helps Nurses Manage CAR T-Cell Therapy Toxicities
- ONS Voice article: Learn the Nursing Considerations for Cytokine Release Syndrome
- ONS Voice article: Nurses Help Patients Weather the Storm of CAR T-Cell Therapy
- ONS Voice article: Oncology Drug Reference Sheet: Tocilizumab
- Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing article: Cytokine-Release Syndrome: Overview and Nursing Implications
- Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing STAT sheet on cytokine release syndrome
- ONS book: Understanding and Managing Oncologic Emergencies: A Resource for Nurses (third edition)
- ONS clinical practice resource on cytokine release syndrome
- ONS course: Essentials in Oncologic Emergencies for the Advanced Practice Provider
- ONS course: Oncologic Emergencies
- ONS course: Treatment and Symptom Management—Oncology RN
- ONS Huddle CardsTM
- ONS video: Cytokine Release Syndrome
- BMT Infonet
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- 2021 study on cytokine release syndrome and associated neurotoxicity in cancer immunotherapy
To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities.
To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email [email protected].
03/14/25 • 43 min
“You can give someone a survivorship care plan, but just giving them doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen. Maybe there’s no information about family history. Or maybe there’s information and there’s quite a bit of family history, but there’s nothing that says, ‘Oh, they were ever had genetic testing,’ or ‘Oh, they were ever referred.’ So the intent is so good because it’s to really take that time out when they’re through with active treatment and, you know, try to help give the patient some guidance as to what to expect down the line,” Suzanne Mahon, DNS, RN, AOCN®, AGN-BC, FAAN, professor emeritus at Saint Louis University in Missouri, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a conversation about breast cancer survivorship.
Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0
Earn 0.75 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at courses.ons.org by March 14, 2027. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learning outcome: Learners will report an increase in knowledge related to breast cancer survivorship.
Episode Notes
- Complete this evaluation for free NCPD.
- Previous ONS PodcastTM site-specific episodes:
- ONS Voice articles:
- ONS books:
- ONS course: Breast Cancer Bundle
- ONS Learning Libraries:
- ONS GuidelinesTM and Symptom Interventions:
- Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing article: Survivorship Care: More Than Checking a Box
- Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing supplement:
Episode 340: What It’s Like to Plan an ONS Conference
The ONS Podcast
12/06/24 • 18 min
“Don’t be afraid of applying, even if you’ve never planned a conference before, and you think, ‘Well, I have no idea what I’m doing.’ You probably know more than you think you do. You probably have more connections than you think you do, and it is such a worthwhile experience,” Colleen Erb, MSN, CRNP, ACNP-BC, AOCNP®, hematology and oncology nurse practitioner at Jefferson Health Asplundh Cancer Pavilion in Willow Grove, PA, told Lenise Taylor, MN, RN, AOCNS®, BMTCN®, conferences oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about serving on a planning committee for an ONS conference.
Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod Episode Notes
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Episode Notes
- This episode is not eligible for NCPD contact hours.
- Oncology Nursing PodcastTM episodes:
- ONS Voice articles:
- What Brings You Value in ONS? You Can Thank a Volunteer for That
- The Power of Connection in Oncology Nursing
- Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing article: What Is It Like to Chair the ONS BridgeTM Content Planning Team?
- ONS Volunteer Opportunities
- ONS Congress
- ONS Evidence-Based Practice Learning Library
To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities.
To find resources for creating an Oncology Nursing Podcast Club in your chapter or nursing community, visit the ONS Podcast Library.
To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email [email protected].
Highlights From This Episode
“I saw a link on the ONS website looking for volunteer opportunities and applied, not thinking that I’d actually get chosen because I had never done anything like this before. I had spoken at conferences, but I had never been part of the planning committee. The application [had] some open-ended questions about what your expertise is and where your interests lie. ... And then I got a phone call from the planning chair for that year, and we talked a little bit more in depth about the questions that were on the application, and my interests, and how I thought I would fit on the team.” TS 2:05
“The main part [of the work] was topic selection and then speaker selection once we narrowed down the topics. I feel like there was a lot of brainstorming and group effort to both of those things. You don’t have to individually have an exact topic or an exact speaker. There was a lot of ‘I think this general broad topic would be good,’ and then we narrowed it down as a group to something that would fit into a 45-minute presentation.” TS 4:30
“We talked about interventional radiology and how it seemed like it was taking on much more of a bigger role in oncology and how that could fit into the conference and whether we wanted to have a specific topic or an overview of the things that interventional radiology can offer for oncology patients. And we ende...
04/18/25 • 27 min
Episode 359: Lung Cancer Screening, Early Detection, and Disparities
“I was actually speaking to a primary care audience back a few weeks ago, and we were talking about lung cancer screening. And they said, ‘Our patients, they don’t want to do it.’ And I said, ‘Do you remind them that lung cancer is curable?’ Because everybody thinks it is a death sentence. But when you’re talking about screening a patient, I think it’s really important to say, ‘Listen, if we find this early, stage I or stage II, our chances of curing this and it never coming back again is upwards of 60% to 70%,’” ONS member Beth Sandy, MSN, CRNP, thoracic medical oncology nurse practitioner at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a conversation about lung cancer screening.
Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0
Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at courses.ons.org by April 18, 2027. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learning outcome: Learners will report an increase in knowledge related to lung cancer screening.
Episode Notes
- Complete this evaluation for free NCPD.
- ONS PodcastTM episodes:
- Episode 313: Cancer Symptom Management Basics: Other Pulmonary Complications
- Episode 295: Cancer Symptom Management Basics: Pulmonary Embolism, Pneumonitis, and Pleural Effusion
- Episode 247: Tobacco Treatment for Patients With Cancer
- ONS Voice articles:
- Lung Cancer Screening and Early Detection Drastically Improves Survival Rates
- Pack-Year History Is a Biased and Inadequate Criterion for Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility, Researchers Say
- CMS Expands Eligibility Criteria for Lung Cancer Screening With Low-Dose Computed Tomography
- Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment, Side Effects, and Survivorship
- Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing articles:
- Nurse-Led Tobacco Cessation for Veterans Using Motivational Interviewing in a Lung Cancer Screening Program
- Identifying Primary Care Patients at High Risk for Lung Cancer: A Quality Improvement Study
- Oncology Nursing Forum article: Patient–Provider Discussion About Lung Cancer Screening Is Related to Smoking Quit Attempts in Smokers
- ONS Tobacco, E-Cigarettes, and Vaping Learning Library
- American Cancer Society Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines
- American Lung Association lung cancer resources
To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities.
To find resources for creating an ONS Podcast Club in your chapter or nursing community, visit the
Episode 134: Nurse Innovators Increase Access to Biomarker Testing During ONS Hackathon
The ONS Podcast
12/18/20 • 45 min
ONS members Meghan Coleman, DNP, CRNP, and Alison McDaniel, BSN, RN, OCN®, join Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss their Evidence-Based Quality Understanding in Pathology (EQUIP) project to solve unequal access to germline and somatic biomarker testing, which earned first place in the inaugural ONS Hackathon. The ONS Hackathon took place over two weeks in November 2020 and gave nurses a platform to develop innovative ways to address challenges in the delivery of quality cancer care. For more information, read the ONS Voice article linked in the episode notes.
Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0
Earn 0.75 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by December 18, 2022. The planners and faculty for this episode have no conflicts to disclose, and the episode has no commercial support. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Episode Notes
Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities.
- ONS Voice article: An Oncology Nurse’s Primer on Genomics and Biomarker Terminology
- ONS Voice article: Winning Team Reduces Disparities to Biomarker Testing in First-Ever ONS Hackathon
- Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing article: Shifting to a Biomarker Paradigm Across Cancer Care
- ONS Genomics and Precision Oncology Learning Library
- American Cancer Society information on cancer biomarker testing
- American Society for Clinical Pathology
- College of American Pathologists
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Biomarkers Compendium
- NCCN additional information on biomarker testing
Episode 333: Pharmacology 101: CDK Inhibitors
The ONS Podcast
10/18/24 • 35 min
“CDK4/6 inhibition is considered to be a milestone in the realm of targeted breast cancer therapy. The combination of CDK4/6 inhibitors with the endocrine therapy has really emerged as the foremost therapeutic modality for patients diagnosed with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, advanced breast cancer,” ONS member Teresa Knoop, MSN, RN, AOCN®-emeritus, independent nurse consultant in Nashville, TN, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during the latest episode in our series about anticancer drug classes.
Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0
Earn 0.75 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at courses.ons.org by October 18, 2026. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learning outcome: Learners will report an increase in knowledge related to CDK inhibitors.
Episode Notes
- Complete this evaluation for free NCPD.
- Oncology Nursing PodcastTM episodes:
- Pharmacology 101 series
- Episode 329: Pharmacology 101: BRAF Inhibitors
- Episode 313: Cancer Symptom Management Basics: Other Pulmonary Complications
- Episode 295: Cancer Symptom Management Basics: Pulmonary Embolism, Pneumonitis, and Pleural Effusion
- Episode 80: Patients Need Checkpoint Inhibitor Education
- Episode 5: New Guidelines for Managing Immunotherapy-Related Adverse Events
- ONS Voice articles:
- Combination CDK4/6 and Fulvestrant Has Survival Benefits in Late-Stage Breast Cancer
- FDA Approves Inavolisib With Palbociclib and Fulvestrant for Endocrine-Resistant, PIK3CA-Variant, HR-Positive, HER2-Negative, Advanced Breast Cancer
- FDA Approves Ribociclib With an Aromatase Inhibitor and Ribociclib and Letrozole Co-Pack for Early High-Risk Breast Cancer
- FDA Expands Early Breast Cancer Indication for Abemaciclib With Endocrine Therapy
- FDA Warns of Rare Lung Inflammation With Certain CDK4/6 Inhibitors
- Manage Immunotherapy-Related Diarrhea and Colitis
- Oncology Drug Reference Sheet: Ribociclib
- The Case of the CTCAE Assessment for CDK4/6 Adverse Events
- ONS book: Clinical Guide to Antineoplastic Therapy: A Chemotherapy Handbook (fourth edition)
- Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing article: Targeted Therapies: Treatment Options for Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer
- ONS Symptom Intervention:
Episode 27: How Self-Care Can Impact Your Nursing Practice
The ONS Podcast
12/14/18 • 28 min
ONS member Deborah Christensen, MSN, APRN, AOCNS®, oncology nurse navigator at Southwest Cancer Clinic in St. George, UT, joins Erin Dickman, MS, RN, OCN®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss why we need self-care as nurses and as people, how self-care can benefit your practice, the best ways to implement self-care in your daily routine, and much more.
Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode Notes:
Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities.
- Deborah Christensen at ONS Voice
- Self-Care Topics at ONS Voice
- Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Brené Brown
Episode 136: Nurse Innovators Use Telehealth to Improve Adult and Pediatric Symptom Reporting
The ONS Podcast
01/01/21 • 35 min
ONS members Janet Van Cleave, PhD, of New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing in New York City, and Micah Skeens, PhD, RN, CPNP, of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH, the 2020 recipients of the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge in Oncology, join Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss how they made their projects a reality using the grant funding and how any nurse can work to make their innovative ideas a reality. Additionally, Van Cleave discusses her Oncology Nursing Foundation-funded study to measure her project’s outcomes. The challenge supports the development of nurse-led innovative projects to improve oncology care, including prevention, early detection, treatment, and care for cancer survivors. For more information on the challenge, read the ONS Voice article linked in the episode notes.
Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0
Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by January 1, 2023. The planners have no conflicts to disclose and the episode has no commercial support. The faculty for this episode, Dr. Van Cleave and Dr. Skeens, disclosed grant funding from Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Dr. Van Cleave also disclosed grant funding from the Oncology Nursing Foundation and NYU Mega-Grants Initiative. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Episode Notes
Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities.
- ONS Voice article: Oncology Nursing Society Announces Awardees of Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge in Oncology
- ONS Voice article: To Drive Clinical Excellence and Resources, ONS Launches Center for Innovation
- Oncology Nursing Podcast Episode 134: Nurse Innovators Increase Access to Biomarker Testing During ONS Hackathon
- Oncology Nursing Foundation grant funding
11/10/23 • 36 min
“I think oftentimes people think this is just a radiology procedure that is rather benign. That’s really the role of the oncology nurse, just to be [an educator], support, emotional support, and a coach,” Lisa Parks, MS, APRN-CNP, ANP-BC, nurse practitioner in hepatobiliary surgery at The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a discussion about what oncology nurses should know about transarterial chemoembolization administration and their role surrounding that procedure. This episode is part of a series about non-IV chemotherapy administration; the others are linked below.
You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and completing the evaluation linked below.
Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust” by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0
Earn 0.75 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD), which may be applied to the oncology nursing practice or treatment ILNA categories, by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by November 10, 2025. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of NCPD by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learning outcome: The learner will report an increase in knowledge related to transarterial chemoembolization.
Episode Notes
- Complete this evaluation for free NCPDComplete this evaluation for free NCPD.
- Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes about non-IV chemotherapy administration:
- Oncology Nursing Forum articles:
- ONS Chapters
To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities.
To find resources for creating an ONS Podcast Club in your chapter or nursing community, visit the ONS Podcast Library.
To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email [email protected].
Highlights From Today’s Episode
“So, TACE was commonly used to treat liver metastatic cancers, primarily metastatic colon cancer, until research showed that some of these cancers were not responding to TACE. Therefore, it is no longer really used in metastatic colon cancer. TACE is used in hepatocellular cancer. It also was used more than 10 years ago to treat metastatic neuroendocrine cancers. But recent research has showed that neuroendocrine cancers respond to this embolization without the use of chemotherapy. By eliminating chemotherapy, we also eliminate the potential for side effects.” TS 3:29
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How many episodes does The ONS Podcast have?
The ONS Podcast currently has 368 episodes available.
What topics does The ONS Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Cancer, Nursing, Medicine, Podcasts, Education, Oncology and Healthcare.
What is the most popular episode on The ONS Podcast?
The episode title 'Episode 121: Home Infusion of Antineoplastics During COVID-19' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The ONS Podcast?
The average episode length on The ONS Podcast is 34 minutes.
How often are episodes of The ONS Podcast released?
Episodes of The ONS Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of The ONS Podcast?
The first episode of The ONS Podcast was released on Oct 18, 2017.
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