Implementing Ryan's law on an inpatient medical oncology unit

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MCKAIG, Amanda | VARILLA RIDAD, Alyssa Rose | BELL, Allegra | MCPARLANE, Rayna | QUIRCH, Maria

In September 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 311 (Ryan’s Law), mandating that healthcare facilities permit terminally ill patients to use their own medical cannabis under the Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act. This law challenged an inpatient oncology unit to develop a policy and clinical workflow to allow eligible patients to self-administer oral and topical cannabis. A case study illustrates how oncology nurses implemented Ryan’s Law for patient symptom management during hospitalization. Nursing satisfaction surveys revealed that oncology nurses felt comfortable adopting Ryan’s Law into their practice postimplementation

http://dx.doi.org/10.1188/25.CJON.86-90

Voir la revue «Clinical journal of oncology nursing, 29»

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