Paramus Stem Cell Transplantation Nurse Appears on Cover of Advance for Nurses
By Christine Odell Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 09:52 AM EDT
Hackensack University Medical Center’s Stem Cell Transplantation Nurses on Cover of Nurses Magazine
The challenges and triumphs faced by the nursing team of the Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program of the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center were spotlighted in a recent cover story of Advance for Nurses magazine. The team was featured on the cover of the magazine’s August 18, 2008-New York/Northern New Jersey issue. The John Theurer Cancer Center is New Jersey largest and among the most active in the nation. Its Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program is among the 10 largest in the United States.
The cover story, “Stemming the Tide,” informed readers of the program, the nursing team, and the day-to-day care provided by these nurses in the Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program’s outpatient center and its inpatient Benito and Carmen Lopez Stem Cell Transplantation Center.
“Our stem cell transplantation nurses command multiple roles involved in the complex care of these patients and their families; they are caregivers, educators, and compassionate friends to the nearly 300 patients who come to us each year for life-saving or life-extending stem cell transplantation,” says Andrew L. Pecora, M.D., chairman and executive administrative director of the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center. “We are proud that Advance for Nurses has recognized our team.”
The Advance for Nurses article points out that John Theurer Cancer Center nurses “meet the demands of the new science of stem cell transplantation with compassion and strength. The latest technologies, procedures, and medications [involved in stem cell transplantation] are offering challenges in patient care and advanced practice.”
The article featured photographs of many of the team’s nurses. Several were interviewed for the article, including Pamela Sutherland, MSN, APN, RN, CRNI, who noted: “From a nursing perspective, you couldn’t have a more complex nursing intervention and nursing education. Not only do we treat transplant-related complications, we develop a relationship with these people for a long time to come.” In pointing out that not all patients survive their disease despite a stem cell transplant, Ms. Sutherland explained that the goal of the entire nursing team “is to be honest and forthright but realistic. We must strive to help our patients go down any road they have to go down.” In addition to Ms. Sutherland, other nurses/nursing administrators who were quoted include Celeste Bethon, Phyllis McKiernan, Kate Buttner, Melissa Baker, and Maureen Timoney.
Stem cell transplants are an important treatment option for many patients with leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and other serious blood disorders, such as aplastic anemia and sickle cell anemia. The procedure has advanced considerably over the past 20 years so that instead of an experimental rescue treatment for patients whose other treatments have failed, it is often offered as a primary, standard treatment for some diseases. The stem cell transplantation team at the John Theurer Cancer Center participates actively in basic, translational, and clinical research trials aimed to ultimately improve stem cell transplantations. The team has been responsible for many of the advances in the transplantation process achieved over the past 20 years.
The John Theurer Cancer Center provides extraordinary cancer care by offering multidisciplinary care, personalized treatment, innovative research, superior outcomes, and patient satisfaction within 14 disease-specific, treatment, or research divisions. For more information about The Cancer Center, call 201-996-5900 or visit www.humccancer.org.
Nurses who were interviewed for this article include Pamela Sutherland of Goshen, N.Y., Celeste Bethon of Moonachie, Phyllis McKiernan of Paramus, Kate Buttner of Bogota, Melissa Baker of Ringwood, and Maureen Timony of Rochelle Park.
The challenges and triumphs faced by the nursing team of the Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program of the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center were spotlighted in a recent cover story of Advance for Nurses magazine. The team was featured on the cover of the magazine’s August 18, 2008-New York/Northern New Jersey issue. The John Theurer Cancer Center is New Jersey largest and among the most active in the nation. Its Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program is among the 10 largest in the United States.
The cover story, “Stemming the Tide,” informed readers of the program, the nursing team, and the day-to-day care provided by these nurses in the Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program’s outpatient center and its inpatient Benito and Carmen Lopez Stem Cell Transplantation Center.
“Our stem cell transplantation nurses command multiple roles involved in the complex care of these patients and their families; they are caregivers, educators, and compassionate friends to the nearly 300 patients who come to us each year for life-saving or life-extending stem cell transplantation,” says Andrew L. Pecora, M.D., chairman and executive administrative director of the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center. “We are proud that Advance for Nurses has recognized our team.”
The Advance for Nurses article points out that John Theurer Cancer Center nurses “meet the demands of the new science of stem cell transplantation with compassion and strength. The latest technologies, procedures, and medications [involved in stem cell transplantation] are offering challenges in patient care and advanced practice.”
The article featured photographs of many of the team’s nurses. Several were interviewed for the article, including Pamela Sutherland, MSN, APN, RN, CRNI, who noted: “From a nursing perspective, you couldn’t have a more complex nursing intervention and nursing education. Not only do we treat transplant-related complications, we develop a relationship with these people for a long time to come.” In pointing out that not all patients survive their disease despite a stem cell transplant, Ms. Sutherland explained that the goal of the entire nursing team “is to be honest and forthright but realistic. We must strive to help our patients go down any road they have to go down.” In addition to Ms. Sutherland, other nurses/nursing administrators who were quoted include Celeste Bethon, Phyllis McKiernan, Kate Buttner, Melissa Baker, and Maureen Timoney.
Stem cell transplants are an important treatment option for many patients with leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and other serious blood disorders, such as aplastic anemia and sickle cell anemia. The procedure has advanced considerably over the past 20 years so that instead of an experimental rescue treatment for patients whose other treatments have failed, it is often offered as a primary, standard treatment for some diseases. The stem cell transplantation team at the John Theurer Cancer Center participates actively in basic, translational, and clinical research trials aimed to ultimately improve stem cell transplantations. The team has been responsible for many of the advances in the transplantation process achieved over the past 20 years.
The John Theurer Cancer Center provides extraordinary cancer care by offering multidisciplinary care, personalized treatment, innovative research, superior outcomes, and patient satisfaction within 14 disease-specific, treatment, or research divisions. For more information about The Cancer Center, call 201-996-5900 or visit www.humccancer.org.
Nurses who were interviewed for this article include Pamela Sutherland of Goshen, N.Y., Celeste Bethon of Moonachie, Phyllis McKiernan of Paramus, Kate Buttner of Bogota, Melissa Baker of Ringwood, and Maureen Timony of Rochelle Park.
