Advanced Practice Nursing

Transitioning a pediatric rheumatology patient to adult care, ideally, should be a holistic process that begins in early adolescence, according to speakers in a panel at the 2021 Rheumatology Nurses Society annual conference.

Patients who received rheumatology care from nurse practitioners or physician assistants rated their overall experience similarly to those who saw a rheumatologist, according to survey data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

APPs are integral to cancer care delivery, working across the cancer continuum from prevention, risk reduction, screening and diagnosis to all modes of treatment, post-treatment survivorship and surveillance, and end-of-life care.

Palliative care is an important piece of cancer care that improves the quality of life for patients with cancer.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center appointed two nursing executives to leadership roles.

Colleen Tetzlaff, MHS, PA-C, has been named president of Association of Physician Assistants in Oncology.

With the advent of the novel coronavirus, the delivery of health care has dramatically changed across the spectrum, requiring physicians, pharmacists and nurses to get creative with patient care.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States is rapidly closing in on a half-million.

More than 1.7 million people in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer and approximately 607,000 are expected to die of the disease this year, according to data from the American Cancer Society.