Catherine Chittick, RN, BSN

Catherine Chittick, RN, BSN is an oncology nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where she has been employed for five years since the start of her career.  

After graduating from Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT) School of Nursing in 2015, Catherine joined the nursing profession as a registered nurse at the MGH as part of the eCare Nursing Residency program for new graduates.  She has both outpatient and inpatient experience, working first in an outpatient infusion nurse caring for leukemia and bone marrow transplant bone marrow transplant: A bone marrow transplant (BMT) is also called a stem cell transplant (SCT) or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).The procedure replaces unhealthy blood-forming stem cells with healthy ones and offers some patients the possibility of a cure. But for many patients, a BMT is not an option due… patients before moving inpatient to care for patients with those same diagnoses. 

She currently works within the MGH Cancer Center on Yawkey 8E, a 60 chair infusion unit, specializing in the care and treatment of patients with various hematologic malignancies including myelodysplastic syndrome, acute myeloid leukemia acute myeloid leukemia: (uh-KYOOT my-uh-LOYD loo-KEE-mee-uh) A cancer of the blood cells. It happens when very young white blood cells (blasts) in the bone marrow fail to mature. The blast cells stay in the bone marrow and become to numerous. This slows production of red blood cells and platelets. Some cases of MDS become… ,  multiple myeloma, lymphomas, and genitourinary cancers. She also has experience in the care of patients status post CAR-T therapy. In her infusion nurse role, she follows patients longitudinally through the chronic and acute phases of their illness and has a passion for patient education. She is an active member of the MGH patient education committee and currently serves as co-chair of the DAISY award selection committee at MGH.