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Course: 2024 ONA Summit Live Virtual Meeting

Released: 0000-00-00

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Real Nurses, Real Solutions: Breakthrough Strategies in Oncology Nursing Practice
You already know that cancer exerts profound psychological, physical, social, and spiritual burdens on patients, and oncology nurses are charged with addressing each of these care domains. You also know that caring for patients with cancer exerts similar burdens on oncology nurses themselves. Providing oncology care includes exceptional nursing care in complicated situations, all within an increasingly complex, resource limited and stressful environment.
Stressors Affecting Oncology Nurses
You are living the stressors that continue to impact both oncology patients and their nurses: COVID-19 fallout, including delayed screening and pauses in some clinical trials: chronic staffing shortages; chronic resource and drug shortages; healthcare inequities, compassion fatigue, incivility, and more. Barriers to providing holistic care, including lack of training resources, exacerbate the chronically challenging environment. The entire landscape of anti-cancer therapies has substantially and dramatically evolved to a new intensity level where nurses, like physicians, are challenged to keep up-to-date, and are equally responsible to their patients for safe and effective care delivery.
Oncology Care is Intensive Care
Oncology nurses habitually encounter patients with some of the highest acuity in healthcare, and are expected to provide holistic, scientifically-astute, highly efficient and emotionally mature care. Gone are the days where oncology nurses receive education or extensive orientation in their workplace; now, this intensity of education is largely absent in healthcare organizations.
For oncology nurses, adequate education is proven as one of the most effective measures to reduce stress levels and improve work performance, and evidence demonstrates that developing competencies in nurses based on both established nursing roles and on the opinion of nurses themselves (since they know what their educational needs are) is effective education.
Real Nurses, Real Solutions: Breakthrough Strategies in Oncology Nursing Practice has been designed to address the real and practical needs of oncology nurses. Emerging trends, breakthrough treatment and management strategies, analysis of the 2023 Summit educational gaps, and analysis of the 2023 Summit learner-identified needs have come together to provide an agenda that truly meets the needs of real oncology nurses in the real world. Join us for actionable, practical breakthrough strategies in oncology nursing practice!
Agenda
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Target Audience
Oncology Nurses, including generalists, nurse navigators, advanced nursing providers (MSN, APN, and NP) who specialize in the care of patients with cancer; and nurses from other subspecialties who care for patients with cancer throughout their disease trajectory (surgical, radiation, palliative/hospice, and primary/medical subspecialty nurses).
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Learning Objectives
After participating in this CE activity, nursing clinicians should be better able to:
Assess subjective and objective data, including preventive, pathophysiologic, and patient-specific data to develop clinical diagnoses for patients with cancer.
Plan evidence-based interventions to holistically address oncology patient care needs.
Implement practical, evidence-based, collaborative nursing care to patients with cancer, and their family/caregivers.
Evaluate practical strategies to optimize nursing management of the unique needs of patients with cancer.


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