Caring for patients with mesothelioma
Mesothelioma nurse specialist Anne Moylan talks to Lynne Pearce about her complex but highly rewarding role caring for patients with this rare form of cancer.
A charity funded nursing post may be fulfilling, but is it a dead end for your career progression?
For lung cancer and mesothelioma nurse specialist Anne Moylan it has meant the opposite, with promotion to a band 8 nursing role, leading a team of specialist mesothelioma nurses based in the south of England.
‘I’m delighted,’ says Ms Moylan, who is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. ‘Often with band 8 roles you lose your clinical caseload, but that’s not so with this job.’
The story began back in January 2014, when her trust was awarded funding from the charity
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