ONS Lectureships

Dr. Eileen Danaher Hacker, PhD, APN, AOCN® Trish Greene Memorial Quality of Life Lectureship Winner

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Trish Greene Memorial Quality of Life Lectureship* (MS01)

Award: A $2,000 honorarium, one coach airfare to IOL, two-day per diem for IOL, and a plaque. The paper will be published in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing.

Purpose: This award was established to focus attention of the membership on quality-of-life issues in cancer care; describe the contributions of clinicians, educators, administrators, and researchers in oncology nursing to quality of life in cancer care; apply information related to quality of life to oncology nursing practice; and incorporate the philosophy of quality of life into all aspects of cancer care. The lecture is presented at the ONS Annual Institutes of Learning.

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

• Be a registered professional nurse and an active ONS member
• Demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, education, administration, or research related to quality-of-life issues and contribute to the specialty of oncology nursing
• Communicate effectively through written and verbal formats.

*This award is in memory of Trish Greene, an oncology nursing leader and pain management expert who was active in ONS. She died of cancer in 1999.

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.
• Contribution to the specialty of Oncology Nursing:
• Examples from CV
• Clinical developments such as staff development, program development, patient teaching, support groups
• Community outreach (programs such as ACS, Leukemia Society, camps for patients with cancer, survivor’s day participation or other related activities)
• Adjunct faculty or preceptor of students
• Excellent written communication skills: Includes articles in newsletters, journals, reports, video, multimedia, computer assisted instruction, or chapters in books
• Presentation experience: Presentations listed on CV/application
• Excellence in Quality of Life Issues (Clinical, education, administration and/or research related):
• Examples within reference letters or on CV
• QOL contributions: presentations, literature, specific educational interventions, research issues

Application deadline is August 15, 2008.

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Past Trish Greene Memorial Quality of Life Lectureship Award Winners