Get In-Tune With Patients: Music Can Help Alleviate Stress

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Music can help alleviate stress and bring something familiar into an unfamiliar medical procedure.

Music can help alleviate stress and bring something familiar into an unfamiliar medical procedure.

In this episode, we spoke with Laura Schandert, AGPCNP-BC, nurse practitioner at Duke University School of Nursing, about her recent experiment in using music to calm the nerves of patients with blood cancers undergoing bone marrow procedures.

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