ASHLEY TULLIO, B.S.N., RN
I want to nominate Ashley Tullio, RN, for the Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing. She has been an instrumental a part of the melanoma clinic on the College of Colorado Most cancers Middle. She began as a clinic nurse, and in that function she improved the expertise of all our sufferers.
From the start, she labored tirelessly, typically later within the night than she was alleged to. She would verify in on sufferers even on the weekend when there have been sudden issues. She was ravenous to find out about melanoma in any respect of its phases and subtypes. She was wanting to study concerning the “new” therapies we had at the moment (the immune checkpoint inhibitors) and the rising toxicities now acknowledged as immune-related toxicities.
When she first began, she learn the revealed scientific trials that led to the scientific approvals of Yervoy (ipilimumab), Opdivo (nivolumab), Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and the mixture of Yervoy and Opdivo on her personal. She registered for on-line instructional webinars and was always and earnestly studying and studying as a lot as she may.
ASHLEY TULLIO, B.S.N., RN
All of the whereas, she bonded simply with sufferers and have become their go-to particular person as they went by way of the anticipated phases of shock, worry, nervousness and acceptance of being recognized with melanoma. She was a fierce advocate for sufferers and made positive they acquired as many assets as attainable.
She was promoted to cost nurse, and in that function, she continued to function a affected person advocate but in addition fought to enhance the work expertise for the entire clinic employees. She additionally improved among the processes in place with our scientific analysis employees to make sure there was nonetheless nursing involvement in affected person assessments and look after sufferers on scientific trials. She has began a brand new place as our tumor infiltrating lymphocyte remedy coordinator. It is a remedy method that was not too long ago accredited and doesn’t have a scientific course of in place. She has been concerned in creating and refining our program and creating affected person schooling. She has been instrumental in getting our program off the bottom. Numerous sufferers have expressed their gratitude for the compassion and empathy Ashley has offered.
She is very revered by her friends and colleagues. As a supplier, I’ve trusted her insights to make sure we meet and exceed the wants of our sufferers. Ashley is a nurse who offers greater than she will get again day-after-day. She goes above and past and is tireless in making an attempt to enhance the day by day expertise for sufferers, members of the family and employees.
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