{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 347: Care Considerations for Radiopharmaceuticals and Theranostics in Patients With Cancer","description":""If you take your normal radiation oncology experience, as we know in radiation oncology, radiations are done by the machines, you know, externally. Nurses deal with the side effects and everything like that, whereas radiopharmaceuticals are given kind of on the internal basis, they\u2019re systemic,\u201d ONS member John Hollman, BSN, RN, OCN\u00ae, radiation nurse educator for Texas Oncology, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS\u00ae, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a conversation about caring for patients receiving radiopharmaceuticals and theranostics.  Music Credit: \u201cFireflies and Stardust\u201d by Kevin MacLeod  Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0\u202f  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\u2019s Commission on Accreditation.  Learning outcome: Learners will report an increase in knowledge related to radiopharmaceuticals and theranostics in cancer care.  Episode Notes\u202f  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. ONS Podcast\u2122 episodes: Episode 339: A Lesson on Labs: How to Monitor and Educate Patients With Cancer  Episode 301: Radiation Oncology: Side Effect and Care Coordination Best Practices Episode 298: Radiation Oncology: Nursing\u2019s Essential Roles Episode 12: The Intersection of Radiation and Medical Oncology Nursing ONS Voice articles: Radiopharmaceuticals and Theranostics Offer New Options for Oncology Nurses to Transform Cancer Care Radiopharmaceuticals Pack a One-Two Punch Against Cancer Oncology Drug Reference Sheet: Radium 223 Dichloride Oncology Drug Reference Sheet: Lutetium Lu 177 Dotatate Oncology Drug Reference Sheet: Lutetium Lu 177 Vipivotide Tetraxetan ONS book: Manual for Radiation Oncology Nursing Practice and Education (fifth edition) ONS courses: Essentials in Advanced Practice Cancer Treatments ONS\/ONCC Radiation Therapy Certificate\u2122 Step Outside Your Specialty: Broaden Your Learning Horizon Across ONS Congress\u2122 Session Tracks  Share your experience with ONS Voice.  To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities.   To find resources for creating an ONS Podcast Club in your chapter or nursing community, visit the ONS Podcast Library.  To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email pubONSVoice@ons.org.    Highlights From This Episode  "I think most places are now doing the seven days, just to be extra cautious and you know, can't you be around any pregnant women or children, you can\u2019t just be going to Target and stuff like that right after your injection because you are radioactive, and try not to share a bathroom with your family, that can be difficult and that leads into, as we\u2019ve talked about in many talks that we\u2019ve had, the social situation.\u201d TS 8:08 \u201cIt\u2019s really up to that nurse to recognize, like a good infusion nurse, to recognize the signs and symptoms of an infusion reaction and then to catch it at the earliest possible moment.\u201d TS 11:42 We\u2019re not really dependent on lab values between treatments, whereas the infusion you have to look at your lab values. These are the game changer.\u201d TS 13:20 \u201cYou just hear the term radiation, and you just think of Chernobyl, or you think of like these worst-case, media-blown things and you think, how are you not being dosed with radiation every day? Because they don\u2019t realize that you have this whole radiation safety team that\u2019s required to be overseeing that you\u2019re doing things safely and effectively, that these nurses that are administering these therapies or these therapists that are helping with the therapy are the safest as possible.\u201d TS 18:37 \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t safe, we wouldn\u2019t be doing it. You know what I mean? So, there is that implicit bias that I think I can foresee a lot of people trying hard to get over. And if you do have questions, anyone who\u2019s listening, and you\u2019re scared that your center is going to roll this out, please talk to your physicians, please talk to your radiation oncologists, please talk to your radiation safety officers. They can definitely assure and put your fears at rest, hopefully. I 100% trust the radiation safety officers.\u201d TS 19:45 \u201cThat\u2019s why the nurses really need to be educated by those radiation safety teams so they can pass those questions, or they can answer those questions, alleviate those fears on consultation\u2014or actually during the week when we\u2019re calling in for questions.\u201d TS 21:07 \u201cI think getting both teams involved, if you\u2019re going to really do this partnership, I find it really rare that it\u2019s ever solely in rad onc. It\u2019s always usually a combination of both. They\u2019re always referred to us from that onc or somewhere. So, you really need that partnership.\u201d TS 23:20 \u201cThis is so great to see what the future holds with these. And like I said, now they\u2019re trying to do clinical studies for different diagnoses. So I think it\u2019s just going to explode in the next few years about what we can use these for. It\u2019s really an exciting time to be not only in oncology, but in radiation oncology.\u201d TS 26:54 ","author_name":"The ONS Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/onsvoice.libsyn.com\/website","html":"