Credit: Photo courtesy of Lynda Chubbuck
Staff nurse Cheri Hermann, BSN, RN, OCN, comforts Irma Pascarella with a warmed weighted blanket during her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Merrimack Valley. Weighted blankets are available throughout the Institute’s infusion clinics due to a successful evidence-based practice project designed by a team of Dana-Farber clinical nurses and nurse scientists, with results drawing worldwide attention.