New in 2022: Live Roundtable Discussions on September 14 and 22

 

In addition to the NCPD sessions on September 13 and 15, 2022, this year’s ONS Bridge™ participants have bonus days with live roundtables on September 14 and 22 where you can discuss important issues with your peers and ask ONS staff questions. Here is a quick look at the line-up: 

• Continuing the Conversation: 
  • Explore practical interventions for building moral and personal resilience with keynote speaker Patricia Jakel, RN, MN, AOCN^®. 
  • Discuss ways you can advocate for climate change and the health of our oncology patients with closing speaker Milagros Elia, MA, APRN, ANP-BC. 
• How are your peers addressing these topics pulled directly from the ONS Communities? 
  • Share the assessment tools you have found most useful and how you have incorporated them into practice 
  • Discuss successful implementation of distress and depression screening tools, how are nurses perform meaningful follow up, and how to identify support resources. 
  • Discuss how discharge follow up calls can improve clarifying discharge instructions and education provided and fosters and reinforces our empathy and support. 
  • Have you found some apps that patients have used that have improved their care? 
  • Discuss the importance of care teams following up with patients after initial treatments and share what follow up questions are critical to ask patients. 
  • Talk with ONS Enterprise staff members: 
  • Learn more about certification by talking with an Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation staff member. 
  • Ask an ONS oncology clinical specialist your clinical practice question and learn more about the ONS resources available at your fingertips.  
  • Join the Oncology Nursing Foundation to hear about scholarship and funding opportunities and how you can write a successful application. 
  • Discover how nurses new to oncology are benefiting from ONS’s new Oncology Nurse Orientation program. 
  • Join ONS President Jeannine Brant, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCN^®, FAAN, and Directors-at-Large Kristin Ferguson, DNP, RN, OCN^®, and Deborah Allen, PhD, RN, CNS, FNP-BC, AOCNP^®, to discuss ONS initiatives such as DEI, advocacy, and leadership development. 
  • Learn about how ONS On-Demand benefits your institution with more than 50 ONS courses for continuous professional development. 
  • Come talk genomics and precision oncology with nursing experts and learn about ONS’s plethora of point-of-care tools and education how to incorporate them in your training and practice.  
  • Discuss the impact of evidence-based practice in cancer care and identify methods you can use to implement it in your practice setting. 
  • Talk with members of the ONS Leadership Development Committee about ways to enhance your leadership skills. 

See the full schedule to plan your time. The roundtable sessions do not offer NCPD and will not be recorded or available to view on your own time. 

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