Career Development Event: Career Development Event: Your CV, Your Key to Professional Development (CDE)

Jill Gilliland, President of Melnic, an APRN and PA recruitment company, will inspire you to identify your characteristics, learn more about yourself, light your fire, and find your passion to design your professional roadmap.  She will help you identify internal and external opportunities for professional growth and contribution to explore your options.  Then you will learn to use your CV to map and track your goals and accomplishments. Read more...

Paper Presentations: Global Health — WHO Global Childhood Cancer Initiative: Relevance for Nursing Immigrant and Vulnerable Families Facing Childhood Cancer in the United States (220-2)

In 2017, the WHO World Health Assembly passed the Cancer Prevention and Control through an Integrated Approach (WHA70.12) resolution under a wide agreement that cancer is an increasing public health issue. In 2018, WHO created the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) to galvanize the Ministries of Health to prioritize childhood cancer in low- and middle-income countries (L&MIC).

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How to Return Research Results to Patients and Families? The Children’s Oncology Group Experience (C232)

In North America, the majority of children with cancer will enroll in a clinical trial at some point during their treatment. Clinical research is rooted in the premise that the quantity and quality of human lives will be improved by carefully conducted clinical and basic research.

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Paper Presentation: Symptom Reporting Strategies—Patient and Parent Experiences of Cancer Symptoms as Assessed by the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale for Children (231-3)

Treatment for childhood cancer is associated with symptoms that contribute to poorer psychological and physical functioning and decreased quality of life. Symptom assessment scales have been used to identify the prevalence, severity, and distress related to cancer treatment.

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Paper Presentation: Symptom Reporting Strategies—Examining Self-Reported Pain of School-Age Children Undergoing Treatment for Cancer Using a Game-Based App (231-1)

The goal of this presentation is to describe the daily pain experiences reported by 19 school-age children with cancer participating in a trial of a game-based symptom assessment app. We will discuss the prevalence of pain and how participants elected to communicate their pain within the app, using child-centric rating scales, an avatar to localize pain, and free-text responses.

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Preparing Patients and Families for the Off-Therapy Transition (230)

Completion of cancer-directed therapy can be an exciting time for patients and their families but may also be anxiety provoking as they face a new set of challenges and a “new normal.” Patients may be returning to school with new needs for academic accommodations or returning to the care of their primary care provider, who may have limited experience with childhood cancer survivors.

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Update on Hemophilia - The A's, the B's and the C's (228-2)

Hemophilia A (Factor VIII deficiency) and Hemophilia B (Factor IX) are bleeding disorders in which a specific protein in the blood is absent or low, resulting in an inability to form an adequate fibrin clot. These disorders, while rare, can occur spontaneously, be inherited, or be acquired.

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What works in ITP - Voodoo to what's NEW! (228-1)

Immune thrombocytopenia can present a multitude of clinical challenges for providers, patients, and families. In 2011, the American Society of Hematology released guideline recommendations for the management of this challenging pediatric condition.

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This is Awkward...  Having Difficult Conversations about AYA Sexual Health (227)

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a key aspect of physical health, emotional health, and quality of life in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer and blood disorders both during and after treatment. AYAs increasingly identify concerns with sexual function, contraception, fertility, and psychosexual adjustment and report conversations on these topics rarely take place with providers.

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Paper Presentation: Outcomes of Serious Illness on Nurses, Patients, and Families—Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Nurses: An Integrative Review (225-3)

"Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur from direct or indirect exposure to traumatic events. Nurses are at risk of developing PTSD due to their indirect and/or direct exposure to traumatic situations while providing care to vulnerable patient populations.

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