Nursing Ethics Grants

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:
o Use of theoretical concepts
o Use of the nursing process
o Professional development of self and other
o Multidisciplinary collaboration
o Quality assurance
o Uses ethical decision making
o 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:
o Examples within reference letters
o 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:
o Examples within reference letters or on CV
o Clinical developments such as staff development, program development, patient teaching, support groups
o Community outreach (Programs such as ACS, Leukemia Society, camps for patients with cancer, survivor's day participation or other related activities
o 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: August 16, 2010, 5pm (ET).

Oncology Nursing Society
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