Presentation description:

Delivering cancer care to a loved one can be difficult, but doing so during a pandemic makes it even more challenging. With stay-at-home orders, limited resources and more, you may have questions about how to keep your employees with cancer safe. For example, what cancer types increase one’s risk of contracting coronavirus-19? Should cancer treatment be delayed to avoid potential exposure? What about infusion therapy? Can this be done at home?

Join us as Carrie Peterson and Michelle Taylor, Oncology Nurse Practitioners with Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, share helpful tips on how to care for cancer patients during this health crisis.

Session participants will learn about:

• COVID-19: Risks, Spread, and Prevention

• How cancer and cancer treatment affect the risk of COVID-19

• Effective ways to cope with stress

About our speaker:

Presenter:

Carrie Peterson, RN, DNP, AGNP-C 
Nurse Practitioner, Infusion
The University of Arizona Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center

Michelle Taylor, RN, MSN, ANP-BC
Nurse Practitioner, Breast Oncology 
The University of Arizona Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center

Carrie is a board certified Adult-Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. She obtained her doctorate degree at Arizona State University. She has experience in Emergency Medicine, Nephrology and Hematology/Oncology. She has been at the University of Arizona Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center for a little over two years, providing urgent symptom management for oncology patients.

Michelle is a board certified Adult Nurse Practitioner, having obtained her graduate degree from Arizona State University. She is an Arizona native, with two decades of health care experience in Hematology/Oncology, Hospice, Trauma and Internal Medicine. Michelle recently joined the Breast Oncology team at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in October of 2019.

For more information, contact Sherry Haskins at:
Telephone: (602)-372-7034
E-Mail: info@healthyazworksites.org