Episode 332: Best Nursing Practices for Pain Management in Patients With Cancer

Описание: "Nurses really are the professionals who educate how to take these medicines, why we use multimodal therapies, why it isn't medicine alone—helping patients to understand that pain is a biopsychosocial spiritual phenomenon, and the pills are just going to hit one little aspect of that entire phenomenon," Judy Paice, PhD, RN, director of the cancer pain program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL, told Lenise Taylor, MN, RN, AOCNS®, BMTCN®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about nursing practices for cancer pain management.


Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust (http://www.incompetech.com/) " by Kevin MacLeod


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Earn 1 contact hour of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at courses.ons.org by October 11, 2025. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.


Learning outcome: Learners will report an increase in knowledge related to managing pain in patients with cancer.


Episode Notes


• The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other ONS Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities (https://www.ons.org/education-hub/onc...) .

• Oncology Nursing Podcast™ episodes:

• Episode 165: Safely Administer and Prescribe Opioids for Cancer-Related Pain (https://www.ons.org/podcasts/episode-...)

• Episode 3: Opioids, Addiction, and Complex Care (https://www.ons.org/podcasts/episode-...)


• ONS Voice articles:

• Alternative Funding Programs: Don't Be Fooled by Promises of 'Free' Specialty Cancer Drugs (https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/...)

• CMS's Chronic Pain Experience Journey Map Will Help Patients and Providers (https://voice.ons.org/advocacy/06-202...)

• Latest CDC Clinical Practice Guideline Facilitates Safe Use of Opioids for Pain (https://voice.ons.org/advocacy/01-202...)

• What the Evidence Says About Tai Chi in Cancer Care (https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/...)


• ONS book: Clinical Manual for the Oncology Advanced Practice Nurse (https://www.ons.org/books/clinical-ma...) (fourth edition)

• ONS courses:

• Essentials in Advanced Practice Symptom Management (https://www.ons.org/courses/essential...)

• Treatment and Symptom Management—Oncology RN (https://www.ons.org/courses/treatment...)


• Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing articles:

• Effects of a Nurse-Initiated Telephone Care Path for Pain Management in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Receiving Radiation Therapy (https://doi.org/10.1188/23.CJON.143-146)

• Pain Management Revisited (https://doi.org/10.1188/21.CJON.361-362)

• Symptom Distress: Implementation of Palliative Care Guidelines to Improve Pain, Fatigue, and Anxiety in Patients With Advanced Cancer (https://doi.org/10.1188/19.CJON.149-155)


• Oncology Nursing Forum articles:

• Barriers for Nurses Providing Cancer Pain Management: A Qualitative Systematic Review (https://doi.org/10.1188/23.ONF.348-360)

• Framing Cancer Survivors' Access to and Use and Disposal of Prescribed Opioids Within the Opioid Epidemic (https://doi.org/10.1188/23.ONF.25-34)

• Interventions for Managing a Symptom Cluster of Pain, Fatigue, and Sleep Disturbances During Cancer Survivorship: A Systematic Review (https://doi.org/10.1188/20.ONF.E107-E119)


• ONS Position Statement: Cancer Pain Management (https://www.ons.org/make-difference/o...)

• ONS Learning Library: Pain Management (https://www.ons.org/learning-librarie...)

• Diagnostics article: Diagnosing Pain in Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Current State and Novel Technological Solutions (https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13...)

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