Schedule at a Glance by TRACK

Administration • Advanced Practice • Chemotherapy • Education • Advocacy • Hematologic/BMT • Outpatient • Prevention/Early Detection • Research • Radiation Therapy • Symptom Management • Survivorship • Disease Management

Instructional Sessions
#1 Maximizing Funding Support in the New Healthcare Compliance Era
#27 Who Will Take Care Of Us? Recruitment and Retention Issues for Oncology

Discussion Sessions
#3 Transforming the Work Environment for Oncology Nurses-Addressing Workplace Civility
#4 Taking a 15-Minute Sabbatical at Work
#5 A Team is More Than a Bunch of Folks
#6 Aiming to Improve Assessment, Information, and Management for Chemotherapy Symptoms
#7 Shared Governance: A Cornerstone of Excellence in Oncology Care and a Force of Magnetism
#12 Rebuilding a Troubled Oncology Inpatient Unit

Bench to Bedside Lectureship
Pharmacogenomics: Pharmacogenetics, Pharmacogenomics, and Personalized Medicine

Instructional Sessions
#9 Moving Forward With Evidence-Based Practice
#14 Highlighting the Spheres of Influence of Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialists
#26 The Journey to Improve Nursing-Sensitive Patient Outcomes

Discussion Sessions
#10 Everything But the Operation: The Role of the APN in Surgical Oncology

Pre-Congress Sessions
#3 Chemotherapy: It's Not Just for Cancer Anymore
#6 ONS Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Renewal and Update Course
#9 Meet the Families of Targeted Therapies: The HERs, VEGFs, RASs, MMPs, RAFs, and AKTs

Discussion Sessions
#1 Concurrent Chemoradiation and Safety

Instructional Sessions
#4 Clinical Hot Topics
#7 Oncologic Emergency Update: Tumor Lysis Syndrome
#17 Hone Your Reaction Actions: Hypersensitivity, Anaphylaxis, and Extravasations
#20 Closed Chemotherapy Administration Systems: Are You in Compliance?
#22 What the Oncology Nurse Needs to Know About Drug Development

Pre-Congress Sessions
#4 What is Your Question? How to Construct Great Tests

Discussion Sessions
#5 A Team is More Than a Bunch of Folks

Instructional Sessions
#19 Developing Nursing Competencies on Dedicated and NonDedicated Oncology Units

Special Sessions
#4 The Practice Doctorate in Nursing: Point-Counterpoint

Special Symposium
Medicare Cuts, the Nursing Shortage, and Cancer Research Funding Decreases-How You Can Make A Difference

International Symposium
Advocacy in Action-Mobilizing the Cancer Community

Instructional Sessions
#16 Bedside Bioethics: Oncology Nurses' Role in Ethics Consultation Committees

Pre-Congress Sessions
#7 The ABCs of Stem Cell Transplant: What Every Oncology Nurse Needs to Know

Instructional Sessions
#7 Oncologic Emergency Update: Tumor Lysis Syndrome
#10 Treating Adults With Childhood Malignancies: Sarcomas and Leukemias
#11 Managing Older Patients With Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma

Pre-Congress Sessions
#8 Oncology Nursing in a Private Practice Setting

Instructional Sessions
#1 Maximizing Funding Support in the New Healthcare Compliance Era
#5 Your Patient Completed Treatment: What Comes Next?

Instructional Sessions
#3 Future Directions in Prevention and Early Detection in Prostate, Lung, and Colon Cancer
#6 Collaborating to Address Health Disparities in Cancer Care

Distinguished Researcher Session
Patient Participation in Treatment Decision-Making: An International Nursing Research Odyssey

Instructional Session
#8 Research Opportunities in the Cooperative Groups
#9 Moving Forward With Evidence-Based Practice
#23 Patient-Centered Technologies for Self-Care and Remote Monitoring
#26 The Journey to Improve Nursing-Sensitive Patient Outcomes

Special Sessions
#2 Grant-Writing Session
#3 National Cancer Institute (NCI) Listens

Discussion Sessions
#1 Concurrent Chemoradiation and Safety

Instructional Sessions
#12 Cutting-Edge Technology: Intracranial and Extracranial Radiation Therapy

Pre-Congress Sessions
#1 Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine Primer for Oncology Nurses
#2 Pharmacology Update
#5 Pain Management Resource Nurse Program: Defining the Role and Setting Up for Success

Discussion Sessions
#2 Cancer Shouldn't Have to Hurt: Disparities in Cancer Pain Management
#6 Aiming to Improve Assessment, Information, and Management for Chemotherapy Symptoms
#8 Involuntary Weight Loss, Cancer, and Optimal Nutrition Interventions
#9 New Respiratory Therapy Concepts and Technologies
#11 Safe Opioid Rotation: Switching Back and Forth

Instructional Sessions
#18 Neurological Complication of Patients With Cancer: Seizures and Leptomeningeal Disease
#26 The Journey to Improve Nursing-Sensitive Patient Outcomes
#21 Lymphedema in Cancer Survivors

Instructional Sessions
#5 Your Patient Completed Treatment: What Comes Next?
#24 The Quality of Dying: Dimensions of Patient Control

Mara Magensen Flaherty Memorial Lecture
Life After Cancer: What Does Sexuality Have To Do With It?

Discussion Sessions
#13 Difficult Conversations

Instructional Sessions
#2 Pancreatic Cancer: Current Treatment and Future Possibilities
#3 Future Directions in Prevention and Early Detection in Prostate, Lung, and Colon Cancer
#10 Treating Adults With Childhood Malignancies: Sarcomas and Leukemias
#11 Managing Older Patients With Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma
#13 Hereditary Cancer Risk Assessment: What Are We Missing?
#15 Balancing Evidence and Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Localized Breast Cancer
#18 Neurological Complication of Patients With Cancer: Seizures and Leptomeningeal Disease
#25 Prophylactic Surgeries-Strategies for Preparing Patients at High Risk for Cancer

ONS Clinical Lecture
Oncology Nurses: The Bridge from Genomic Discoveries to Disease Prevention
Supported by an independent educational grant from Schering Corporation