Advocacy, an important component of nursing professional practice, is pivotal to ensuring that nurses’ experience and insight influence public policy. Understanding how to become engaged and receive training to inform that process can support nurses’ professional development. Such engagement...

This issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing ( CJON ) contains the inaugural installment of STAT, a visually compelling one-page review about oncologic emergencies or other clinical care issues that require urgent nursing attention. The reasons for STAT are simple. The need for nurses to...

This past summer, while attending a genetics conference in Bar Harbor, Maine, I was informed that I would be the incoming editor of the Oncology Nursing Forum ( ONF ). Since then, I have tried to coalesce my thoughts to write my first editorial. Bar Harbor in July is as idyllic a setting for...

Background: Shared decision making (SDM) is beneficial for interprofessional teams but also challenging to implement correctly. Oncology nurses are at the forefront of patients’ treatment and, therefore, one of the most essential components of the SDM process. Objectives: The aim of this pilot...