From left: KATHLEEN SHUEY, M.S., RN, ACON, ACNS-BC and LISA CHARTRAND, B.S.N., RN, NE-BC PHOTOS BY KAT RITENOUR
My nominee is the primary individual you suppose to name to ask a query, ask for help or choose her mind for her huge experience and data in oncology. Kathleen Shuey, M.S., RN, SCON, ACNS-BC, listens and guides us in the suitable course in caring for our oncology inhabitants. She is available to help us after we want her. She helps the crew by coming to our unit to ask questions, examine on issues, meet with the crew and supply training or checkoffs. She is the primary to acknowledge a chance for a mission that may profit our sufferers and get us began on monitor to finish the mission, usually checking in to see if now we have questions. She doesn’t do the work for us however leads us to finish the work wanted to make lasting enhancements that profit everybody.
She facilitates our oncology nurse boards and our oncology service line apply council. Kathleen has greater than 25 years of oncology nursing expertise, and you may rely on her assist and experience.
KATHLEEN SHUEY, M.S., RN, ACON
It’s troublesome to recount all of the issues she has been a part of each day. In oncology, you may count on all kinds of experiences every day. She has supported our palliative care initiative and the opening of palliative care beds on our unit. She was there to assist, information, mentor and educate. Much more lately, Kathleen arrange oncology licensed nurse evaluate programs at our facility to help with certification for our groups. She accomplished all of the slides for and manages the chemotherapy biotherapy renewal course for our groups to make sure the nurses are present in apply. After we had no oncology educator out there, she arrange the oncology nurse internship courses. She updates us on all new drug regimens, and she or he is part of disseminating training for the analysis trials we’re conducting at our facility. When now we have a brand new analysis affected person, she involves the unit and makes positive we’re doing all the things appropriately. She helps nurses with their initiatives and poster shows and encourages them to succeed. She demonstrates compassion for the crew when coping with difficult points and affected person care wants. We’ve had new supervisors on the oncology models, and Kathleen comes by to mentor and examine on them in addition to reply any questions.
Should you ask her a query that isn’t in her wheelhouse, she is going to work to seek out the reply or direct you to the suitable questions. You will need to acknowledge those that assist the function of the oncology nurse. She retains everybody on monitor whereas conserving the affected person on the heart. Many new graduate nurses on our models might not have plenty of oncology training at school. It is necessary that somebody evaluations the training and assist wants of the crew.
There are such a lot of good issues to say about Kathleen; I’m positive I’ve disregarded one thing when speaking about how a lot I respect and worth her on our crew.
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