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Welcome to The Total Nurse: Caring for Self While Caring for Others

This new section is designed to provide information and tools to help with caring for the nurse's personal life. Caring for self may be the best thing nurses can do for their patients and their families. The editors of Oncology Nurse Advisor hope this section continues to grow and fulfill that need.

To that end, we invite nurses and other visitors to click here to send us their comments on whether we achieve that goal, or click on the icon below and complete our survey.

An act of balance: Caregiving tips for the Sandwich Generation

Kerstin L. McSteen, BSN, MSN, ACHPN, CNS-BC

These tips and resources can help oncology nurses and other clinicians ease the burden of caring for both parents and children.

Cumulative stress

Kerstin L. McSteen, BSN, MSN, ACHPN, CNS-BC

Nurses should know these symptoms of cumulative stress, and learn these techniques for relieving it.

What do you do for you?

As an oncology nurse, a good deal of your day is spent focused on the quality of life for your patients. But what do you do to improve the quality of your life?

Transitioning from work to home

The ability to transition is not generally viewed as a form of self-care, but the process of leaving our professional world and re-entering our personal world deserves attention.

Compassion fatigue in oncology nursing: A witness to suffering

Kerstin L. McSteen, MS, ACNS-BC, ACHPN

The ability to recognize the symptoms and manage the consequences are critical to personal and professional health.

Featured Book of the Month

Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
by Margaret J Wheatley
"I believe we can change the world if we start talking to one another again." With this simple declaration, Margaret Wheatley proposes that people band together with their colleagues and friends to create the solutions for real social change, both locally and globally, that are so badly needed.