Carol Cannon

ccannon Carol Cannon, RN, BSN, OCN currently works as a Clinical Research Nurse on an oncology/hematology/stem cell transplant unit. This is her first experience in oncology nursing, with previous experience in cardiology and critical care. She is constantly amazed at the level of education, empathy, and stamina that oncology nursing demands every day. She lives with her husband and their German Shepherd in Bethesda, MD, where she enjoys cooking and reading. --

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Feeling the Post-​​Congress Glow

It’s a week later, and I am still bask­ing in the glow of my first ONS Con­gress. What a ride! On Thurs­day morn­ing, when I walked into the mas­sive New Orleans con­ven­tion cen­ter and spot­ted the long line for pre-​​registered nurses, I felt a lit­tle knot form in my stom­ach. But it was impos­si­ble to stay ner­vous after the open­ing ceremonies.

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Congress Amateur No More

So, I am at my gate approx­i­mately 3 hours and 15 min­utes early ready to fly to New Orleans. It’s my first ONS Con­gress, and I have all the signs of an ama­teur. Besides being absurdly early and overly excited to find an elec­tri­cal out­let for my lap­top, I am dis­ap­pointed to learn that the Baltimore-​​Washington Air­port does not have free wire­less inter­net. Is this a new thing?

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Nursing Team Award Boosts Morale

Every spring, my insti­tu­tion chooses one nurs­ing team to receive a team award to be pre­sented dur­ing Nurses Week. Any­one can write some­thing about why his or her team deserves the award, and I thought I’d share what I wrote with you all. Inpa­tient units often go through cycles of high patient acu­ity, often accom­pa­nied by low staff morale.

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Nursing Demands Open Minds

I just spent some time in a city very dif­fer­ent from my home. Being there made me appre­ci­ate the diver­sity where I live and work. I was talk­ing with a teacher about it who told me about the ice­berg the­ory of diver­sity. The ice­berg the­ory of cul­ture is such an impor­tant con­cept to teach peo­ple, par­tic­u­larly in the health­care field.

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Embrace Your Entire Work Family

I worked this past Easter week­end; I had always assumed that work­ing hol­i­days came with the job. Because of this, my cowork­ers have become a sort of fam­ily with whom I share the hol­i­days. Dur­ing hol­i­days, we typ­i­cally have a pot luck of sorts, and each per­son work­ing that day contributes.

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