Crystal F. Spellman

cspellman Crystal Spellman, RN, BSN, OCN®, is a research coordinator for Phase I clinical trials in hematology/oncology for the University of Cincinnati’s Experimental Therapeutics Program in Ohio and is currently pursuing her DNP in the Adult/Gerontology CNS tract at the University of Kentucky. Crystal first earned a BFA in painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2001, and brings that foundation to the art of nursing. She is a newer oncology nurse but has already found that the richness and rewards of caring for patients with cancer and their families is her passion. --

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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.

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I Wish Everyone a Straight-​​A Kind of Week

It’s finals week around these parts—my favorite rit­ual of edu­ca­tion. Noth­ing else is capa­ble of induc­ing the con­flict­ing feel­ings of anx­i­ety, ela­tion, antsy­ness, and (when done right) accom­plish­ment. By the end of this week, I will have the first year of grad­u­ate school under my belt.

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A Chef, a Cardiologist, and an Epidemiologist Walk Into a Room

It’s hard to talk seri­ously about nutri­tion with patients when you are hand­ing them their sec­ond ice cream at mid­night. Hos­pi­tals have cho­sen to get clear about pro­mot­ing a tobacco-​​free image across their cam­puses, yet still send mixed mes­sages about the role of nutri­tion in heal­ing and health.

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Lessons From Leadership: Your Mission

In his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effec­tive Peo­ple, Steven Covey states “all things are cre­ated twice.” The blue­prints must be just so before the house is built. When the leader chooses to con­sciously craft the blue­print of the plan to include all the ele­ments nec­es­sary for suc­cess, the final prod­uct will reflect that level of care and atten­tion to detail.

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The HPV Vaccine: Current Recommendations and Barriers

At the Soci­ety of Gyne­co­logic Oncology’s 43rd Annual Meet­ing on Women’s Can­cer held in Austin, TX last month, Nobel Prize win­ning virol­o­gist Har­ald zur Hausen issued a call to action regard­ing the impor­tance of vac­ci­nat­ing young men and women against the human papil­loma virus (HPV) in the fight to erad­i­cate cer­vi­cal cancer.

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