Christine Merenda

Contributing Editor Christine Merenda, MPH, RN, OCN®, is a commissioned officer with the U.S. Public Health Service assigned to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Special Health Issues as a health programs coordinator in Silver Spring, MD. --

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Pioneers of Oncology Nursing

“Pio­neer . . . does that mean old?” asks ONS mem­ber Bertie Ford, RN, MS, AOCN®, an oncol­ogy nurse with 28 years of expe­ri­ence who is a clin­i­cal oncol­ogy spe­cial­ist for Genen­tech BioOn­col­ogy. Although some might think pio­neer means old, in the field of oncol­ogy nurs­ing, the term rec­og­nizes the nurses who started and devel­oped the profession.

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Exploring the Role of Oncology Nurse Navigators

The needs of patients with can­cer are as var­ied as the patients them­selves, and so are their nav­i­ga­tors. That is cer­tainly the case today. The land­scape and role of oncol­ogy nurse nav­i­ga­tors has evolved and been shaped by research and patients’ and facil­i­ties’ needs. Today you are apt to find nurse nav­i­ga­tors in hos­pi­tals and clin­ics, work­ing with patients with all can­cer diag­noses and treat­ment plans.

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