Outpatient medical oncology has been my nursing focus for the past 34 years. I spent the first 17 years exclusively at the chairside in the outpatient cancer treatment center, practicing primary oncology nursing, honing my expertise in administering infusion therapies to individuals with blood and...

Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) member, leader, and past editor of the Oncology Nursing Forum (ONF), Susan B. Baird, RN, MPH, MA, died on March 30, 2022, at the age of 79. Baird was a 40-year member of ONS, and from 1980–1990, she transitioned ONF to a journal, guiding it to the evidence-based...

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April 2022 can be a time to recalibrate, particularly after we have experienced this period of COVID-19–related anxiety, isolation, illness, and loss. Some will say April heralds a bright, hopeful spring, accompanied by readiness that supports warmer, sunnier perspectives. Others—hardened by more...