Schedule at a Glance

Friday, November 9 • Saturday, November 10 • Sunday, November 11

7:30 am – 7:00 pm
Registration

8:30 – 10:30 am
Exhibit Hall Open

9:30 – 9 :50 am
How to Prepare an “Elevator Speech”

10:30 am – Noon
Opening Session/Keynote Address:
Keeping Your Life in Balance When Cloning Yourself Won’t Work

Noon – 12:20 pm
Speed Networking

Noon – 2 pm
Exhibit Hall Open

12:15 – 1 pm
How to Make Your IOL Successful: First-Timer Orientation
Is this your first Institutes of Learning? Find out how you can make the most of your time in Chicago and have a successful conference at this workshop. IOL has a lot to offer, so make sure you're not missing anything.

ONS Website - Surfing with Success
The ONS Website is information at your fingertips. Discover all it has to offer, and learn to navigate so that you can easily find what you're looking for. From education to clinical tips to membership information, it's all there with just the click of a mouse.

1:15 – 2 pm
How to Make Your IOL Successful: First-Timer Orientation
Is this your first Institutes of Learning? Find out how you can make the most of your time in Chicago and have a successful conference at this workshop. IOL has a lot to offer, so make sure you're not missing anything.

ONS Website - Surfing with Success
The ONS Website is information at your fingertips. Discover all it has to offer, and learn to navigate so that you can easily find what you're looking for. From education to clinical tips to membership information, it's all there with just the click of a mouse.

2:15 – 3:45 pm (Open Sessions)
Your Backstage Pass to Evidence-Based Practice–How ONS PEP^® Came to Be and Why It’s Important to You

4 – 5:30 pm (Open Sessions)
End of Life: Difficult Conversations

Health Policy Advocacy: Easy Ways Oncology Nurses Can Support Nursing and Patients

Exploring Hereditary Gynecologic Cancers

4:30 – 5:30

Special Session: State of Oncology Advanced Practice Nursing in Canada & the United States: What it means to YOU!

5:30 – 7 pm
Exhibitor Reception

8 am – 5:30 pm
Registration

8 – 9:30 am
Exhibit Hall Open

8:15 – 8:55 am
Develop and Refine your CV or Resume

9– 9:30 am
Careers in Oncology Nursing

9:30 am – 12:30 pm (Mini Institutes)
Real Patients. Real Interventions: Nursing’s Role in Managing Depression, Caregiver Strain and Burden, Prevention of Bleeding, and Dyspnea

12:30 – 2:30 pm
Exhibit Hall Open

1 – 1:20 pm
How to Prepare an “Elevator Speech”

1 – 2 pm
Town Hall

1:30– 1:50 pm
Making Leadership Work for Your Career

2:30 – 5:30 pm (Mini Institutes)

Chemotherapy and Biologics Patient Intensity Study

Sexuality and Fertility in the Patient With Cancer: What Has Changed and How Can You Help?

Challenging Management of Skin Problems With Combined Chemoradiation

Increasing Our Arsenal for Lung Metastases: New Innovative Techniques in Radiation, Surgical, and Medical Oncology

Real Patients. Real Interventions: Nursing’s Role in Managing Depression, Caregiver Strain and Burden, Prevention of Bleeding, and Dyspnea

Basic Ostomy Care for Oncology Patients

Pancytopenia: State of the Science

Bringing Evidence Into Your Clinical Practice—It’s Here, Now!

7 – 11 am
Registration

7:30 – 9 am
Trish Greene Memorial Quality of Life Lecture: Quality of Life for Our Patients: "How Media Images and Messages Influence Their Perceptions"

9:15 – 10:45 am (Open Sessions)
Active Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Hematologic Malignancies and Solid Tumors