Oncology Nursing Society Clinical Lectureship
Award: A $2,000 honorarium, one coach airfare to ONS Annual Congress, two-day per diem for Congress, and a plaque. The paper is published in the September issue of the Oncology Nursing Forum.
Purpose: To recognize and support excellence in clinical nursing practice. The lecture is presented at the ONS Annual Congress.
Nominee’s Eligibility Criteria:
The candidate must meet the following criteria:
Be a registered professional nurse and an active ONS member
Have a minimum of two years experience in oncology nursing
Be a recognized expert in clinical nursing practice because of his or her contributions to the development of oncology nursing
Criteria: The scoring criteria for judging this nomination packet is as follows:
ONS involvement: Participation should include involvement at the local or national level, and includes membership on committees, holding office, or task force participation.
The nominee’s clinical practice is consistent with the ONS Scope of Oncology Nursing Practice and demonstrates the use of the following criteria:
Use of theoretical concepts
Use of the nursing process
Professional development of self and other
Multidisciplinary collaboration
Quality assurance
Uses ethical decision making
Reviews and applies research into practice (Examples of actual patient contacts, examples of actual patient experiences provided by patients within the reference letters, Clinical practice nursing research, Topics, lectures, a model or theory, developed standards of care, published a model/theory)
The nominee is an effective communicator:
Examples within reference letters
Presentations listed on CV well written based on the conference
Clinical practice contribution to literature: Includes articles in newsletters, journals, reports, video, multimedia, computer assisted instruction, or chapters in books
Contribution to the development of the oncology nursing practice:
Examples within reference letters or on CV
Clinical developments such as staff development, program development, patient teaching, support groups
Community outreach (Programs such as ACS, Leukemia Society, camps for patients with cancer, survivor’s day participation or other related activities
Adjunct faculty or preceptor of students)
The clinical topic is relevant to membership at large, well written, concerns a current educational need and/or new trend.
Application deadline: October 31, 5pm ET.
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