Saturday, April 25
Session • 4–5:30 pm • Room 224 AB
From Genes to Practice:
Informing Management Strategies for Patients and Caregivers
Join us in a five-part session identifying management challenges and strategies to meet the needs of patients and
caregivers.
• Terri Jabaley, PhD, RN, will present “Cancer Risk Management Decision Making for BRCA+ Women (Previvors).”
• Fang-yu Chou, PhD, RN, will present “Develop Cancer
Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Limited-English-Proficiency.”
• Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, PhD, RN, CHPPN®, will
present “Evaluation of an Intervention Fidelity-Monitoring Plan for a Palliative and End-of-Life Communication Intervention Delivered to Parents of Children With
a Brain Tumor.”
• Janice Withycombe, PhD, RN, MN, CCRP®, will present
“Patient/Family Educational Practices in Pediatric Oncology: A Report From the Children’s Oncology Group
(COG).”
• Kimberly Alexander, RN, PhD, will present “Social
Well-Being and Cytokine Gene Variation in Patients
With Cancer and Family Caregivers.”
Target Audience: Advanced Practice Nurses
Level of Content: Advanced
Speaker:
Terri Jabaley, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Emmanuel College
Boston, MA
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Speaker:
Fang-yu Chou, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
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Speaker:
Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, PhD, RN, CHPPN®
Associate Professor
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, MO
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Speaker:
Janice Withycombe, PhD, RN, MN, CCRP®
Research Nurse
Palmetto Health
Columbia, SC
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Speaker:
Kimberly Alexander, RN, PhD
School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology
Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
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Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1.Identify management challenges and strategies for patients and caregivers.
2.Describe current practice structures and tools for patient needs.
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April 23–26, 2015