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“Effective communication with healthcare providers, making informed decisions about their care, and gaining strength through connections to others” are the key aspects of patient self-advocacy, ONS member Teresa Thomas, PhD, RN, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in Pennsylvania, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS^®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, in a conversation about how patients can self-advocate and how nurses can support them.

ONS Chief Executive Officer Brenda Nevidjon, MSN, RN, FAAN, and members of the ONS Board of Directors from across the United States share a conversation with U.S. Representative Donna E. Shalala (D-FL) on Shalala’s role in the Institute of Medicine’s historic Future of Nursing report, how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic influenced global perspectives on nurses, and ways that nurses can advocate for improved healthcare policy reform.

Lisa Richardson, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, joins Lisa Kennedy Sheldon, PhD, APRN, AOCNP^®, FAAN, ONS’s clinical and scientific affairs liaison, to discuss CDC’s initiatives for cancer prevention and screening during the COVID-19 coronavirus and flu season. The conversation also covers how oncology nurses can help improve declining screening rates and access a new database of cancer incidence and biomarkers. The advertising messages in this episode are sponsored by Coherus BioSciences.

ONS member Natalie Hamm, RN, MSPH, oncology nurse and health policy consultant from Arlington, VA, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS staff writer, to discuss the importance of advocacy at the local and state level, how oncology nurses can make a difference in their communities, and much more.

As a social determinant of health, a patient’s environmental climate affects cancer risk, access to care, treatment adherence, cancer outcomes, and more. Join ONS member Milagros Elia, MA, APRN, ANP-BC, founder of M. Elia Nature-Based Healthcare Solutions, in Shrub Oak, NY, and Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, as they discuss the crucial need for a clinical focus on planetary health and an ONS grassroots approach to address and combat climate change and its impact on cancer care.  

“It’s important for all nurses to advocate—for themselves, for their practice, for their profession, for their patients. Without the nursing community advocating for itself, no other entity will. It is the nurses’ responsibility to be their own advocate,” Alec Stone, MA, MPA, ONS Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS^®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about how you can advocate for oncology nursing with ONS.

ONS Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy Alec Stone, MA, MPA, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS staff writer, to discuss the youth vaping epidemic, how nurses are advocating for smoking cessation, which government agencies are involved in the tobacco conversation, and where ONS stands in the fight against smoking.

ONS Director of Government Affairs Alec Stone, MA, MPA, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS’s staff writer/producer, to discuss the nursing advocacy achievements of 2019, what legislation and policies will be significant in 2020, what expect during a presidential election year, and how nurses can affect the health policy conversation in 2020 and beyond.

ONS’s Director of Government Affairs, Alec Stone, MA, MPA, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS staff writer, to discuss the Society’s annual Capitol Hill Days event, how ONS members are working with legislators to advocate for their patients, and ways to champion the oncology nursing profession in the health policy arena.

What is it like to guide a professional association that serves more than 100,000 oncology nurses? ONS Directors-at-Large Deborah “Hutch” Allen, PhD, RN, CNS, FNP-BC, AOCNP^®, Kris Mathey, MS, APRN-CNP, AOCNP^®, and Jeanene “Gigi” Robison, MSN, APRN, AOCN^®, reflect on how their varied nursing backgrounds and ONS experiences help the ONS Board to support a diverse membership during a conversation with ONS Executive Director Lori Brown. They also shared the professional and personal rewards that nurses can reap when getting involved with ONS at any level.