ONS member Marcelle Kaplan, MS, RN, a breast oncology clinical nurse specialist, and a member of the panel that developed the ONS Guidelines for Cancer Treatment–Related Hot Flashes in Women With Breast Cancer and Men With Prostate Cancer, and member of the ONS Long Island/Queens Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss ONS's new guidelines and what nurses need to know about the different interventions for managing hot flashes, especially how they differ in patients receiving hormone-depletion therapies compared to the general public. 

Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod 

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Episode Notes:

Check out these resources from today’s episode:

• The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities.
• ONS Guidelines™ for Cancer Treatment–Related Hot Flashes in Women With Breast Cancer and Men With Prostate Cancer
• Oncology Nursing Podcast Episode 76: ONS Guidelines Will Answer Key Symptom Management Questions
• ONS Putting Evidence Into Practice (PEP) resources
• Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing 2011 article: Putting Evidence Into Practice: Evidence-Based Interventions for Hot Flashes Resulting from Cancer Therapies
• GRADE criteria for clinical guidelines