ONS Lectureships

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ONS Clinical Lectureship (EC11)

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: Application deadline has expired.