Anne Gross, PHD, RN, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Dana-Farber

Anne Gross, PHD, RN, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Dana-Farber? Anne Gross, PhD, RN is senior vice president for patient care services and chiefnursing officer. There are more than 700 registered nurses, nurse practitioners,clinical specialists, and nurse scientists working at Dana-Farber.? Anne can give insight into the challenges overcome by the amazing nursing staffduring the COVID pandemic. What they have done and achieved since 2020 inspiresher and keeps her optimistic for the future.? She can also provide insight about the often emotionally powerful relationshipnurses form with patients and why it's a unique nursing career.? Since 2020, along with continuing to provide cancer treatment, oncology nurses hadthe added challenge of protecting patients and each other from COVID hrough strictisolation procedures and the use of personal protective equipment (also known asPPE).? The nurse acquired new skills to care for immunocompromised patients in specialCOVID intensive care units.? In other settings, oncology nurse navigators transitioned their practice to be remoteso they could care for patients while they were in their homes through telehealthvisits and clinical trial nurses innovated standard operations, such as shippinginvestigational drugs to patients’ homes, to enable them to safely remain on theirstudies.? Anne takes great pride in Dana-Farber’s nursing and patient care services staff andthe patient experience at Dana-Farber remains as strong as ever: As a patient youare never alone.? Anne leads a nursing staff focused on the future:? Continuing to manage through the lingering threats of the pandemic whilefocusing on building a pipeline for the future? Addressing the national nursing shortage with the goal of training the nextgeneration of oncology nurses ? Expanding access to our care by opening Foxborough location and expandingSouth Shore