Episode 297 IntraArterial Chemotherapy Administration The Oncology Nurse’s Role

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“What you teach patients about that the side effects may be somewhat different, because it's more of a regional treatment with less systemic toxicities, so it's teaching patients about the drugs, the side effects, and the actual procedure itself,” Lisa Hartkopf-Smith, MS, RN, AOCN®, CHPN, advanced practice nurse at OhioHealth Center in Columbus and ProMedica Cancer Institute in Toledo, OH, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BS, AOCNS®, manager of oncology nursing practice at ONS, during a discussion about the oncology nurse’s role in intra-arterial chemotherapy administration. This episode is part of a series about chemotherapy administration, which we’ll include a link to in the episode notes. • You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and completing the evaluation linked below. • • Music Credit: “Fireflies and Stardust (http://www.incompetech.com/) ” by Kevin MacLeod • • Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 • • Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD), which may be applied to the nursing practice, oncology nursing practice, or treatment ILNA categories (https://www.oncc.org/ilna) , by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at courses.ons.org (https://courses.ons.org) by February 2, 2026. 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: The learner will report an increase in knowledge about the nurse's role in intra-arterial chemotherapy administration. • • Episode Notes • • • • Complete this evaluation for free NCPD (https://courses.ons.org/diweb/gateway...) . • • • Oncology Nursing Podcast: • • • Episode 252: Intraperitoneal Administration: The Oncology Nurse’s Role (https://www.ons.org/podcasts/episode-...) • • • Episode 285: Transarterial Chemoembolization: The Oncology Nurse’s Role (https://www.ons.org/podcasts/episode-...) • • • Additional episodes about chemotherapy administration (https://www.ons.org/acq-search?search...) • • • • Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing article: Evaluation of a Chemotherapy and Medication Education Process for Patients Starting Cancer Treatment (https://www.ons.org/articles/evaluati...) • • • ONS Huddle Card: Chemotherapy (https://www.ons.org/huddle-cards/chem...) • • • ONS Courses: • • • ONS Fundamentals of Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Administration (https://www.ons.org/courses/ons-funda...) • • • ONS/ONCC Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Administration Certificate™ (https://www.ons.org/courses/onsoncc-c...) • • • • ONS books: • • • Access Device Guidelines: Recommendations for Nursing Practice and Education (fourth edition) (https://www.ons.org/books/access-devi...) • • • Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice (second edition) (https://www.ons.org/books/chemotherap...) • • • To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities (http://communities.ons.org/) . • • To find resources for creating an ONS Podcast Club in your chapter or nursing community, visit the ONS Podcast Library (https://www.ons.org/learning-librarie...) .  • • To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . • • Highlights From Today’s Episode • • “Intra-arterial chemotherapy has actually been in existence over 70-plus years. It's been around for a long time. There are case reports in the literature as early as 1950 of intra-arterial chemotherapy, one specifically being giving nitrogen mustard, of all things, interactively through a catheter for the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma.” TS 1:43 • • “Retinoblastoma is a common indication at this point in time for intra-arterial chemotherapy and has very good success rates. Intra-arterial chemotherapy is also used in liver cancers, whether it's an unresectable liver metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the colon or it's unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcino...

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