Nancy Thompson, MSN, RN, AOCNS, is the Director of Quality and Clinical Practice at Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, Washington. Ms. Thompson earned her BSN in Nursing from Montana State University and her MSN in Community Health Nursing at Arizona State University. She is certified in Gerontology and an Advanced Oncology Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is the Community Service Project Chair and part of the Nursing Education Cooperative Faculty of the Oncology Nursing Society’s Puget Sound Chapter and for the past five years was a reviewer for Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing (CJON). In addition to (co) authoring articles published in nursing journals such as American Nurse Today and CJON, Ms. Thompson has lectured internationally on topics related to oncology nursing and patient care.