ONS Lectureships

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Trish Greene Memorial Quality of Life Lectureship


Award: A $2,000.00 award, a plaque, and travel reimbursement to attend the ONS Connections: Advancing Care Through Science Fall Conference.
The paper will be published in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing.

Purpose: This award was established to focus attention of the membership on quality-of-life issues in cancer care; describe the contributions of clinicians, educators, administrators, and researchers in oncology nursing to quality of life in cancer care; apply information related to quality of life to oncology nursing practice; and incorporate the philosophy of quality of life into all aspects of cancer care. The lecture is presented at the ONS Connections: Advancing Care through Science Conference in the fall.

This award is named in memory of Trish Greene, a pioneer in oncology nursing and a leader within the ONS, ACS, UICC, and Leukemia Society of America, as well as being a founding member and the first president of APON.  As pain management expert, she was committed to ensuring quality, compassionate care for patients with cancer.

Nominee's Eligibility Criteria:
The candidate must meet the following criteria:

  • Be a registered professional nurse and an active ONS member
  • Demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, education, administration, or research related to quality-of-life issues and contribute to the specialty of oncology nursing
  • Communicate effectively through written and verbal formats.

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.
  • Contribution to the specialty of Oncology Nursing:
    • Examples from 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
  • Excellent written communication skills: Includes articles in newsletters, journals, reports, video, multimedia, computer assisted instruction, or chapters in books
  • Presentation experience: Presentations listed on CV/application
  • Excellence in Quality of Life Issues (Clinical, education, administration and/or research related):
    • Examples within reference letters or on CV
    • QOL contributions: presentations, literature, specific educational interventions, research issues
    1. Please read the "How To" instructions before accessing the online application.
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    3. Access the Trish Greene Memorial Quality of Life Lectureship (MS01) online application.

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TO NOMINATE ONLINE:

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  2. Register by creating a username and password on the Closerware Grantmaker site.
  3. Access the online nomination.