Up Front

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?

The Unique Needs of GLBT Patients With Cancer

Does "don't ask, don't tell" apply to health care? one ONS member questions. Learn how to provide culturally competent care to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) patients with cancer from an ONS member and a GLBT cancer advocate.

RE:Connect

A blog written by oncology nurses for oncology nurses

RE:Connect

Lessons From Leadership: Impressions From ELNEC-Core

Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend a train the trainer course presented by the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) in beautiful Chicago, IL. The ELNEC-Core curriculum is designed to provide nurses with the tools and knowledge to disseminate much needed education regarding end-of-life care.

One Nurse's Perspective

How Do You Navigate GLBT Patients Through Cancer Care?

In my expe­ri­ence, most gay, les­bian, bisex­ual, and trans­gen­der patients look for signs in your clinic and staff to show them that you are a friendly envi­ron­ment that will allow them to be and express who they are. Sim­ply chang­ing your intake forms to include “part­nered” or “in a rela­tion­ship” along with mar­riage sta­tus goes a long way.

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You Tell Us

How Does Your Institution Address the Needs of GLBT Patients?

We don’t have a spe­cific pro­ce­dure to address spe­cial needs for these patients. I believe in the human policy—that is, we are all human beings, unique in our own way.

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Editor's Note

How Culturally Competent Are You?

Cul­tural com­pe­tence is being respect­ful of dif­fer­ences between peo­ple, accept­ing and valu­ing dif­fer­ences, self-​​monitoring, and tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for thoughts, behav­ior, and out­comes. This month we chose to look at sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion as a cul­tural group with unique can­cer care needs. There are legal issues, screen­ing bar­ri­ers, and insur­ance needs unique to gay, les­bian, bisex­ual, and trans­gen­der (GLBT) patients. Regard­less of your per­sonal beliefs regard­ing sex­ual iden­tity, your GLBT patients with can­cer need your exper­tise and sup­port while under­go­ing can­cer treatment.

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Five-Minute In-Service

How Much Time Do Nurses Need to Give Chemotherapy?

Most can­cer drugs are asso­ci­ated with admin­is­tra­tion pro­to­cols that oncol­ogy nurses must fol­low. Although they are nec­es­sary, they add to nurses’ work­load and con­tribute to the over­all cost of chemother­apy admin­is­tra­tion. In their arti­cle in the Decem­ber 2010 Clin­i­cal Jour­nal of Oncol­ogy Nurs­ing, de Raad et al. reported the results of a study of nurs­ing time and asso­ci­ated admin­is­tra­tion costs at six chemother­apy cen­ters in Australia.

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Just In

Protein Test Predicts Cancer Therapy-​​Induced Heart Damage

A new study of women with HER2-​​positive breast can­cer has found that patients with ele­vated blood lev­els of tro­ponin I had sig­nif­i­cantly higher rates of heart dam­age dur­ing treat­ment with trastuzumab.

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