Get Up, Get Moving

Help Your Patients Get Up, Get Moving

What Is Get Up, Get Moving?

Get Up, Get Moving is a national quality campaign developed by ONS member experts to encourage oncology nurses to implement an evidence-based change in practice and recommend physical activity to patients with cancer during cancer treatment.

Aim

The aim of this national quality campaign is to provide the education and resources necessary to increase the frequency with which oncology nurses recommend individualized physical activity to patients with cancer.

Goal

Oncology nurses will provide individualized physical recommendations for physical activity to 100,000 or more patients receiving any treatment modality—chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy—for cancer in 2016.

Why Is Physical Activity Important for Patients With Cancer?

Multiple organizations, including the American Cancer Society, American College of Sports Medicine, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources, and ONS, recommend physical activity for cancer survivors in active treatment and during the survivorship phase of cancer care.

A national pilot study of the ONS Quality Measures found less than 10% of a sample of patients receiving IV chemotherapy or in the first 12 months after treatment for breast cancer were given recommendations for physical activity as a part of cancer care to manage cancer and treatment related symptoms.

Research evidence supports that physical activity during cancer treatment significantly decreases disease- and treatment-related fatigue. Along with fatigue, this intervention may improve quality of life by

Helping to manage anxiety and depression
Improving sleep quality
Managing lymphedema
Maintaining bone and muscle strength
Decreasing recurrence.

Please find additional references here.

Be a Campaign Leader in Your Workplace and Community

Continue your nursing education with Incorporating Physical Activity Into Cancer Care (IPAC) course. Currently, approximately 60 nurses and other healthcare professionals have completed the course and have reported helping 590 patients set physical activity goals. For those patients, a total of 1,190 physical activity recommendations were made, indicating that nurses developed skills and confidence in making such recommendations to patients with cancer. Take the IPAC course and learn how to lead the campaign in your work site.

Become a Get Up, Get Moving Champion

View our nurse and patient teaching videos and incorporate these resources into your cancer treatment education programs.

To request permission to reuse or adapt these videos into your teaching resources at no cost, please email pubpermissions@ons.org. Additionally, ONS welcomes the opportunity to license our intellectual property.

Physical Activity Recommendation Toolkit

Helpful Tools and Forms

Staff Education Resources

Putting Evidence Into Practice Resource

Exercise

Help ONS Achieve This Practice Change to Improve the Quality of Cancer Care

Complete 10 physical activity recommendations and submit Summary of Recommendation here.
Use the Get Up, Get Moving patient teaching video for patient and staff education, and share it with your leadership.
Track the number of patients given recommendations for exercise with this form using the ONS Quality Measures as part of your quality monitoring program.

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