Opportunity to join ONS Nutrition Focus Group (5/3/12)
The Oncology nurse plays a vital role in assessing nutritional alterations in his or her patients. These nutritional status alterations can have profound effects on our patients’ quality of life, because cancer-related malnutrition often leads to increased infection rates and postoperative complications, reduced tolerance to treatments, increased health care costs, and reduced performance status. The main goal of the ONS nutrition focus group is to educate the Oncology nurse about evidence based, nutritional interventions, and about the role these early, nurse-led nutrition interventions can play in determining more favorable outcomes.
Goals of the ONS Nutrition Focus Group:
• Educate Oncology Nurses to identify barriers to eating and early malnutrition, and provide tools to screen and assess patients for intervention.
• Provide care plans and evidence based nutrition interventions for nurses to implement, and guidelines regarding when to refer to a dietitian for more comprehensive intervention.
• Create newsletters and other educational materials for nurse nutrition education.
• Increase membership in the nutrition focus group and apply for Special Interest Group (SIG) status.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the ONS Nutrition Focus Group, please e-mail Sue Tiffany, RN, BSN, OCN® at stiffany@hoacny.com.
Help plan the 2012 ONS Radiation eConference in July/August 2012! (12/14/11)
With more than 250 nurses attending virtually from across the United States, the inaugural 2011 ONS Radiation eConference was a huge success. Speakers talked about how the specialty has changed over the years and discussed its future, including hot topics like proton therapy and the need for more survivorship care. The 2012 ONS Radiation eConference will be just as exciting, but we need you! ONS is seeking active members interested in being part of the planning team. The planning team is charged with helping determine topics for presentation, selection of faculty, development of conference materials, and assist and execute conference logistics.
The planning of the eConference will be completely done virtually. Meaning all planning for the conference will be done via conference call and through email. No face-to-face meetings will be held. In the initial planning conference calls will occur at least once every month.
If you are interested in participating on this planning team, email the following information to the ONS Education Department at education@ons.org by December 16. For a prompt response please be sure to include Radiation eConference in the subject line of your email.
•Name, credentials
•Email address
•Place of employment & your role
•Years of oncology nursing experience
•SIG membership, if any
•Your expertise/background with the subject matter that will aid in planning content and recruiting faculty
•Your experience in planning CNE programs
Access to Radiation eConference materials have been extended to January 15! (12/14/11)
You will have access to all of the presentation slides, Q&A threads, and chat threads until that time. Here are a couple things to keep in mind.
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The platform closes on January 15, and you have until January 17 to complete the evaluation to earn CNE.
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Presentation slides, Q&A threads and chat threads can be found in the Presentation Library on the virtual experience platform.
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Technical support questions: radiation11@6connex.zendesk.com. All technical support questions will be handled via this email address.
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Education or content-related questions: econference@ons.org or 412-859-6100. An ONS staff person will be happy to help!
October CJON Article Available On Line (10/29/11)
The October CJON is available with the following new article: "Putting Evidence Into Practice Evidence-Based Interventions for Radiation Dermatitis" .
Newsletter Reminder (2/2/11)
Carol DeMarco from ONS sent an e-mail that had the paragraph below:
Also, it seems many SIG members are indicating they are not receiving their newsletters via email (going into their junk mail, etc.). There has been a continued restricting of e-mail policies in the spam filter (especially in institutions/hospitals, etc.). Please encourage your SIG members to check with their IT departments and local email client (Outlook, etc.) to make sure to whitelist ONS where ever you have filters in place.
HELP WANTED- NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY (3/9/10)
SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH YOUR PEERS
WRITE AN ARTICLE FOR THE BOOST NEWSLETTER
TIMELY TOPICS COULD INCLUDE
-STERETACTIC BODY RADIOSURGERY
-TOMOTHERAPY
-ACCELERATED BREAST RADIATION
WE WILL HELP GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE PROCESS
conact: Anne Marie Shaftic anms310@aol.com or Stephanie Bino binos@verizion.net
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Welcome to the Radiation SIG celebrating 20 years. 
