Learn How ONS Can Help Your Institution

Cancer treatment often causes symptoms that result in treatment delays and unplanned care. This adversely affects patient outcomes, healthcare costs, and patient satisfaction. To decrease these possibilities, ONS is launching ONS On-Call™, an oncology-specific decision support tool to guide standardized, evidence-based symptom assessments and leverage ONS’s proprietary evidence-based resources with patient-reported symptoms. Designed by nurses, this cloud-hosted tool ensures best practices in the clinic and institution by providing nurses with guided, comprehensive, and evidence-based assessments that illuminate the causative factors of patients’ symptoms and experience.

To learn more about licensing opportunities, contact ONS staff at institutions@ons.org.

ONS On-Demand™ is a new distribution platform that offers an efficient solution to provide staff with access to evidence-based education from ONS. Staff can be assigned courses to access and complete, and those with administrative roles can view reports on course completion activity.  
ONS On-Demand supports nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) reporting requirements for accreditation programs and staff continuous professional development.

To learn more, contact institutions@ons.org.

ONS is in the process of redesigning all courses.  Features included in redesigned courses:

• Highly interactive
• Visual and auditory elements
• Animated content
• All nursing content is overseen by a nurse planner on staff
• Practical, real-life scenarios (many are case studies or contain case studies)
• Interactive menus to allow autonomy in learning (key for adult learners)
• Designed by professional instructional designers
• Maintain a database of a variety of diversity characteristics to assure that our learning activities are represented
• We have robust quality assurance and quality control procedures
• Courses are reviewed annually for content changes and feedback provided by the learners
• When a course first launches, it is reviewed at six-month increments to do faster adjustments if necessary
• All courses are built by a cross-functional team to ensure well-roundedness of design and implementation

To learn more, contact ONS staff at institutions@ons.org.

The Oncology Nurse Orientation Program provides didactic content for nurses new to oncology. This program builds on the Foundations of Oncology Nursing Practice Bundle (formerly Oncology Nurse Orientation Bundle) and includes flexible preceptor-led activities.  The ONS Oncology Nurse Orientation Program content is evidence-based, incorporates ONS standards and guidelines, and supports new oncology nurses working toward certification based on the ONS Oncology Nurse Generalist Competencies.

For more information, email institutions@ons.org.