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Oncology Nurses Advance Patient Care With New ONS Publications

Oncology Nurses Advance Patient Care With New ONS Publications
Friday, May 12, 2017
For the spring of 2017, ONS has developed six new nurse-written, nurse-focused publications, offering current, cutting-edge resources for oncology nurses seeking to improve their level of care for patients with cancer.

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The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) developed six new publications for the spring of 2017, offering current, cutting-edge resources for oncology nurses seeking to improve their level of care for patients with cancer. These new nurse-written, nurse-focused publications examine several essential, evolving topics in oncology care.
 
ONS member and award-winning author, Anne Katz, PhD, RN, FAAN, published A Healthcare Provider’s Guide to Cancer and Obesity, offering guidance to oncology nurses seeking to understand the link between obesity and cancer. Katz speaks with patients and survivors about weight management and physical activity. Each chapter addresses obstacles and issues that healthcare providers may face when discussing weight management and weight loss with their patients, and it offers helpful suggestions on how to overcome them.
 
Access Device Standards of Practice for Oncology Nursing reviews the controversies in access device care, explores the range of devices currently available, details the advantages and disadvantages of each device to ensure optimal selection based on patient needs, and discusses the key legal ramifications concerning access devices and their management. 
 
Providers are understanding the importance of physical activity in patients with cancer. Integrating Physical Activity Into Cancer Care: An Evidence-Based Approach provides essential resources to encourage and support patients to engage in appropriate levels of exercise throughout the cancer trajectory. Chapters highlight the benefits of physical activity, strategies for assessing patient motivation and adherence, how to evaluate patient tolerance, along with other useful resources for nurses, caregivers, and other healthcare professionals. 
 
Palliative care, defined as symptom management, is a critical component of care for patients at any stage of the cancer journey. Integration of Palliative Care in Chronic Conditions: An Interdisciplinary Approach explores pharmacologic interventions, advance care planning, and the physiology, symptoms, diagnosis, and interventions of chronic conditions and malignancies. Case studies also highlight approaches to care for patients in need of palliative care. 
 
Oncology Nurse Navigation Case Studies uses individual patient examples to demonstrate the role of oncology nurse navigators in facilitating access to treatment, alleviating care barriers, and providing support, resources, and education throughout the disease and treatment trajectory. 
 
Developed by a task force of experts, the Oncology Nursing Society Documentation Standards for Cancer Treatment provides practitioners with documentation standards for chemotherapy and biotherapy administration, radiation therapy, blood and marrow transplantation, surgery, venous access devices, blood product transfusion, and extravasation management. 
 
ONS is a professional association of more than 39,000 members committed to promoting excellence in oncology nursing and the transformation of cancer care. Since 1975, ONS has provided a professional community for oncology nurses, developed evidence-based education programs and treatment information, and advocated for patient care, all in an effort to improve quality of life and outcomes for patients with cancer and their families. Learn more at www.ons.org.
 
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ONS Announces Support for DAISY Foundation

Oncology Nursing Society Announces Support for DAISY Foundation
Monday, August 22, 2016
The Oncology Nursing Society announces its support for The DAISY Foundation™ and its DAISY Award™ for Extraordinary Nurses, recognizing and championing the great work of oncology nurses around the world.
 

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To continue to recognize and champion the great work of oncology nurses around the world, the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) announces its support for The DAISY Foundation™ and its DAISY Award™ for Extraordinary Nurses.
 
The DAISY Foundation, an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System, was created in memory of J. Patrick Barnes to express his family’s gratitude for the skillful and amazingly compassionate care he received from his nurses when he was hospitalized with the autoimmune disease idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in late 1999. Barnes was also a two-time survivor of Hodgkin disease.
 
The DAISY Award honors the work of oncology in nearly 2,300 healthcare organizations throughout the United States and in 14 other countries. ONS is participating in a relationship with The DAISY Foundation to help expand awareness among oncology nurses of this unique opportunity to celebrate the extraordinary compassionate care and skill that oncology nurses provide to patients every day.
 
“The DAISY Foundation has been successful in providing meaningful recognition of direct care nurses who impact their patients and their organizations. We are delighted that many oncology nurses have already been honored by their colleagues with The DAISY Award and look forward to helping the DAISY Foundation celebrate many more,” said Brenda Nevidjon, MSN, RN, FAAN, ONS chief executive officer.
 
Bonnie Barnes, FAAN, co-founder and president of The DAISY Foundation and Patrick’s stepmother, said, “Patrick was a cancer survivor, and his disease took a terrible toll on his immune system. We learned from personal experience just how remarkable nurses’ clinical skill is. What really touched our hearts during Pat’s treatment for Hodgkin disease and later during his eight-week hospitalization with ITP is the level of compassion and kindness nurses also bring to their patients and families. So we created DAISY to celebrate the super-human work nurses do every day—work they take for granted but that makes a profound difference in their patients’ lives. We hope that with ONS’s support, we will bring our message of gratitude to many more deserving oncology nurses and provide many more patients and colleagues a way to celebrate their stories of extraordinary care.”
 
The DAISY Award is one way the DAISY Foundation expresses its gratitude to nurses. Additionally, DAISY offers grants for nursing research and evidence-based practice projects in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases and honors nursing faculty and students in colleges and schools of nursing. For more information about The DAISY Foundation, visit www.DAISYfoundation.org.
 
ONS is a professional association of more than 39,000 members committed to promoting excellence in oncology nursing and the transformation of cancer care. Since 1975, ONS has provided a professional community for oncology nurses, developed evidence-based education programs and treatment information, and advocated for patient care, all in an effort to improve quality of life and outcomes for patients with cancer and their families. Learn more at www.ons.org.
 
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ONS Names New Chief Executive Officer

ONS Names New Chief Executive Officer
Friday, July 11, 2014

ONS is pleased to announce that Brenda Marion Nevidjon, RN, MSN, FAAN, is named as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective September 1.

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The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) today named Brenda Marion Nevidjon, RN, MSN, FAAN, as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective September 1.
 
“We are excited to welcome Brenda as the new ONS CEO. Her distinguished career and leadership skill set will position ONS for the future within a complex and changing healthcare system, while achieving the ONS mission to promote excellence in oncology nursing and quality cancer care. It is an exciting time for ONS and the ONS Board of Directors,” said ONS President Margaret Barton-Burke, PhD, RN, FAAN.
 
“I am honored to be selected as the ONS CEO,” Nevidjon said. “I look forward to working with the Board, staff, members, and the larger cancer care community as we transform the provision of cancer care in a changing healthcare environment.”
 
Nevidjon is currently a professor at the Duke University School of Nursing and coordinator of the Systems Division, which includes the nursing informatics, nursing education, and nursing and healthcare leadership graduate majors. She has had an extraordinary nursing career of leadership in service and education and was the first nurse and first woman to be chief operating officer of Duke University Hospital. Through diverse clinical and administrative experiences in Canada, Switzerland, and the United States, she has devoted her energy to bridging practice settings and academic environments to advance patient care, creating innovative work environments, promoting scholarship in practitioners, and developing leaders.
 
She has helped develop professional nursing organizations at the local, national, and international levels and has made lasting contributions to ONS. Nevidjon is a past president of ONS and the ONS Foundation, has completed a term on the Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Forum Board, and has served on other cancer-related boards, most recently the Association of Community Cancer Centers and the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care.
 
With extensive publications in the nursing literature, Nevidjon is regarded as a mentor for nurses to develop their power and voice through publication.  Her diverse contributions include two volumes of oncology nurse narratives as well as books, articles, and chapters on oncology and administrative topics, such as the role of advanced practice nurses and the nursing shortage. She consults with organizations related to work culture, team building, and leadership development. 
 
Nevidjon received the Duke School of Nursing Distinguished Alumni Award, the ONS Trish Greene Quality of Life Memorial Lectureship, and the American Nursing Association’s Honorary Recognition Award for her sustained contributions to the nursing profession. She is a graduate of the inaugural class of the Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Program and the Johnson & Johnson–Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
 
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ONS Book Takes Top Honor as Book of the Year

ONS Book Takes Top Honor as Book of the Year
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

In the Shadows: How to Help Your Seriously Ill Adult Child, published by Hygeia Media, an ONS imprint, won first place in the prestigious 2013 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Award in the consumer health category. 

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The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is pleased to announce that In the Shadows: How to Help Your Seriously Ill Adult Child won first place in the prestigious 2013 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Award in the consumer health category. The book, an ONS Hygeia Media imprint, was authored by Patricia Ringos Beach, MSN, RN, AOCN®, ACHPN, and Beth E. White, MSN, RN. 
 
Parents of seriously ill adults are often caught in a complicated situation of conflicting demands and expectations. In the Shadows offers stories from parents, their ill adult children, and professionals on how to navigate difficult familial and medical waters. Chapters provide insight and resources that can help to shed light and guide parents and caregivers out of the shadows to provide the best support possible.
 
“Thank you to AJN for the recognition not only of our book, but of the plight of parents of our adult patients,” said Beach, a clinical nurse specialist and patient navigator. “It is these parents’ struggles, stories, and advice that will help others. They have been there.”
 
“It is a great professional honor to have our book recognized by AJN,” said White, a pediatric clinical nurse specialist. “Parents of seriously ill adult children are a deeply committed, yet often-untapped resource.  We hope our book may provide some insight and skills to maximize support to our adult patients and their families.”
 
The AJN is the nation’s oldest and largest circulating nursing journal and one of the most highly respected. Its AJN Book of the Year Award competition draws hundreds of submissions by authors from various fields in the nursing profession. A distinguished panel of judges selects those considered to be the most valuable texts each year.
 
ONS is a professional association of more than 35,000 members committed to promoting excellence in oncology nursing and the transformation of cancer care. Since 1975, ONS has provided a professional community for oncology nurses, developed evidence-based education programs and treatment information, and advocated for patient care, all in an effort to improve quality of life and outcomes for patients with cancer and their families. 
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2016 ACS Chair

ONS Member Will Serve as American Cancer Society Board Chair in 2016
Thursday, January 7, 2016

ONS Member and former ONS Foundation President, Scarlott Mueller, has been appointed as the new 2016 chair of the American Cancer Society Board of Directors.

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ONS Member and former ONS Foundation President, Scarlott Mueller, has been appointed as the new 2016 chair of the American Cancer Society Board of Directors. For more than 35 years, Mueller has been an active member in the oncology profession, receiving awards and serving in numerous positions throughout her career. Read more about Scarlott Mueller’s appointment to chair of the American Cancer Society. 

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