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ONS member Kim Miller, RN, BSN, BMTCN^®, transplant case manager at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS staff writer, to discuss patients receiving blood and marrow transplants (BMT), the complexities of working with the BMT population, and the role of nurses play in BMT patient care.

ONS member Naomi Cazeau, RN, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP^®, nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s outpatient bone marrow transplant unit in New York City and member of the New York City ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss haploidentical stem cell transplants to increase donor options for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).

ONS member Joanne Kelly, RN, BSN, OCN^®, blood and marrow transplant coordinator at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in Missouri and member of the St. Louis ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss what oncology nurses need to know about hematopoietic stem cell transplant donor selection and testing.  

ONS member Ellen Olson, RN, MS, CPNP, BMTCN^®, CPHON^®, bone marrow transplant pediatric nurse practitioner at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Aflac Cancer and the Blood Disorder Service in Emory University’s Department of Pediatrics in Georgia and member of the Metro Atlanta ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss stem cell transplantation as a treatment option for pediatric sickle cell disease.  

ONS member Joaquin Buitrago, MS, RN, OCN^®, nurse educator at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and member of the Houston ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss multiple myeloma and its implications for nursing care, including the pathophysiology of the disease, treatment considerations, and clinical practice recommendations to promote the best patient outcomes. The development of this episode was supported by a sponsorship from Janssen Oncology. 

ONS member Martha Lassiter, MSN, RN, BMTCN^®, AOCNS^®, clinical nurse specialist of adult bone marrow transplant and hematologic malignancies at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, and member of the North Carolina Triangle ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss the home-based transplant program Duke offers as part of an ongoing clinical trial. The advertising messages in this episode are supported by the American College of Surgeons Cancer Programs. 

“I think the most amazing thing we see is the softening of the skin, which can occur during the first two weeks of the conditioning regimen. The nurses on the floor see it, and I think it’s just a tremendous gratification for them to see the results of something right before your eyes,” Tanya Helms, PA-C, from the division of hematological malignancies and cellular therapy at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, told Lenise Taylor, MN, RN, AOCNS^®, BMTCN^®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a discussion about what oncology nurses should know about transplantation for patients with non-oncologic conditions such as autoimmune disease, how the transplant process differs for non-oncology indications, and the clinical pearls oncology nurses should consider when caring for patients with autoimmune diseases during the transplantation process.

ONS member Cecily Snyder, BSN, RN, OCN^®, BMTCN^®, transplant case manager of the blood and marrow transplantation program at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha and member of the Metro Omaha ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss T-cell therapy and how it’s changed approaches to cancer treatment and patient management for oncology nurses.