A look at blood cancers, transitioning pediatric special needs patients to adult care, and a look at how night shift work can affect your health with fellow podcasters Dustin and Angela Ballard. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it. It’s the Nursing Show.
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Welcome to the Show

Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast for nurses, by nurses. I’m your host Jamie Davis and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for checking out the show this week. First up in this week’s episode, we have a special interview on helping patients with suspected blood cancer.
Then we chat with a mother and her child’s doctor on how to transition special needs pediatric patients to adult specialists. Finally, we’ll wrap up the show with a look at how we can help our bodies adjust to night shift work safely. We’ll have that and more later in this episode after the news.
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NEWS:
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society President Dr. Louis J. DeGennaro and patient Erin Zammett Ruddy know first-hand how overwhelming and terrifying a blood cancer diagnosis can be. At 23 Erin was told she had chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a rare blood cancer that, up until that point, had been ultimately fatal in the majority of cases. Check out the upcoming segment where I talk with her and Dr. DeGennaro about how we as nurses can help recognize and manage our blood cancer patients.
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