ONS Excellence Awards

Marsha Farrell, BSN, RN-BC, CHPN 2008 Excellence in Symptom Management Award Winner

All awards, grants, and scholarships are tentative and subject to change based on funding availability.

Excellence in Symptom Management Award (EC07)

Award: Monetary award of $1000 and a plaque.

Purpose: To recognize and support excellence in symptom management.

Nominee's Eligibility Criteria:The candidate must meet the following criteria:

• Be a registered professional nurse and an active ONS member
• Have at least two years of oncology nursing experience
• Made a significant contribution to one or more of the following related to symptom management: professional/patient education, clinical practice, or nursing research
• Serves as a role model for other nurses.

Criteria: The scoring criteria for judging this nomination packet is as follows:

• ONS involvement. Participation should include involvement at the local or national level, and includes membership on committees, holding office, or task force participation.
• Recognized expert in the field of symptom management, contributing to the development of symptom management nursing practice. (Includes articles in newsletters, journals, reports, video, multimedia, computer assisted instruction, chapters in books (do not include research here, include research in last criteria point).
• Significant contribution to the following areas:
  Professional/patient education related to symptom management
• Presentations
• Examples in letters of role modeling
• Specific educational interventions
• Program development
• Support groups
• Adjunct faculty to preceptor for students
• Community outreach
• Clinical practice related to symptom management
• Theoretical concepts used
• Nursing process used
• Professional development of self and others
• Multidisciplinary collaboration
• Quality assurance
• Ethical decision-making used
• Reviews/applies nursing research
• Symptom management research

Application deadline is August 15, 2008.

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