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Lots of News from National

Check out the "News from National" page on this website for information about resources that you NEED TO KNOW about for you and for your patients.

The GPC Year Ahead

25th Anniversary 

Did you know that our chapter turns 25 in 2010????  In addition to some serious celebrating at our May Celebration, here are some of our goals for the coming year:

  • Great programming!  with CNE offered for as many programs as possible now that Pennsylvania is requiring manadatory CE for RN's
  • Engaged membership!  Lots of opportunities to involve members in programming, fundraising, community events with and for oncology nurses
  • Opportunities for members to directly benefit from participation in GPC-ONS activities -- raffles at meetings for special baskets -- and drawing for a national ONS membership or GPC-ONS membership
  • Expanded and enhanced communication with members via electronic newsletter 4 times per year
  • Community activities including:  Camp Raising Spirits, Student Nurse Immersion Program, and many more!

Plan to Come to our second meeting for the new year on October 22nd at the Holiday Inn in Oakland and visit the GPC-ONS Virtual Community often for updates.

Kristen Baileys, RN, MSN, CRNP, AOCNP®    GPC-ONS President

New Members

WELCOME ! 

New GPC-ONS that have joined our chapter in the past two month include:

James Adams, RN
Laurie Arnold, RN
Christine DiPaolo, RN
Anna marrie Long, RN
Elsie Strauss, RN

 

Welcome!  Looking forward to your engagement with our great chapter!

 



NEW GPC-ONS Electronic Newsletter

Exciting news you can use!  GPC-ONS has a new newsletter format!  In an effort to "go-green" and saving printing and mailing costs, the GPC-ONS board voted earlier this year to make our chapter newsletter available in an electronic format.  This new design allows us to include more articles and content that will be useful to our members and feature more of our chapter activities.  Special thanks to Director at Large, Anna Vioral, for serving as our newsletter editor. 

Copies are emailed to GPC-ONS members.  You can click here in case you missed it!



Advertising on GPC Site

The GPC-ONS Board agreed to the following guidelines regarding advertising on our virtual community.

GPC-ONS will promote educational opportunities for continuing education credit and non-CE programs on the chapter virtual community without charge for a 30-day period of time.

GPC-ONS will post employment advertisements on the chapter virtual community.  The fee for posting for a 30-day period of time will be $50 payable to the GPC-ONS.

Please contact Laura Fennimore at fennimore3@comcast.net if you would like to post an offering on the GPC-ONS Virtual Community.




November 7, 2009




Greater Pittsburgh Chapter

Welcome to the Greater Pittsburgh Chapter. The Chapter invites you to browse our site and participate in our events and other offerings.

This is THE PLACE to find out what's happening in Oncology Nursing in the Greater Pittsburgh Area.  Look to this site to find out about our membership, our leadership, our meetings, our events, newsletters, and MUCH MORE!   

Click here for tips on how to navigate this site!



November 2009 Chapter Dinner Meeting

Advances in Oral Health in the Oncology Setting:  Moving Beyond Mucositis

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 McCormick & Schmick’s
in the Southside2667 Sidney St. – Pittsburgh, PA412-432-3260

 

 Speaker:   Connie Jean Ferraro, RN, BSN, OCN®

Clinical Nurse-Radiation Therapy,

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 

Registration begins at 5:30 pm / Dinner Program 6:00 pm

Program fee - $20 for GPC-ONS members /$25 non-members 

RSVP:  Please respond via e-mail to eubanksoncology@verizon.net no later than Thursday, November 12, 2009 



IOL Conference Scholarship Announced

The winner of the 2009 GPC-ONS Scholarship for the ONS Institutes of Learning:

Jaclyn Kattera, RN
Radiation Nurse, UPMC Cancer Centers Latrobe

Jaclyn will be attending the ONS Institutes of Learning in Tampa, FL in early November and will use the $750 scholarship to help with costs associated with attending this conferences.

Congratulations, Jaclyn!  Have a great conference!



MBAM -- There's Something In It For YOU!

MBAM..... It's not a new baseball or basketball term....  It's a new offering for GPC-ONS members!

Bring 3 guests to a chapter dinner who become chapter members...  and receive a free GPC-ONS membership renewal for yourself the next year!

It's a good dea!   Bring your friends and colleagues to our next chapter dinner meeting:   November 18th.  See above! 

 



Honor Someone Special

DO IT TODAY  ! ! ! 

Honor Someone Special Recognition Program Launched at ONS Congress

ONS proudly introduced the Honor Someone Special program at the 34th Annual ONS Congress in San Antonio, Texas. This exciting new campaign honors registered nurses who have demonstrated excellence in oncology nursing and a commitment to quality cancer care. Honor Someone Special is a unique program designed to celebrate individual accomplishments of oncology nurses who make a difference in the lives of people with cancer and their families.

Honor Someone Special will build community awareness as well as help develop a stronger professional recognition program. The Honor Someone Special program is not an awards program, but instead, it’s a campaign to recognize “moments in time” that will allow patients, families, colleagues, and peers to nominate a well-deserving oncology registered nurse for this special honor.

Honor Someone Special is a simple yet meaningful way to say “thank you” to a cancer nurse who promotes excellence in oncology nursing. Nominations are accepted year-round with no limitations on the number of nominations. The only requirement is that nominees must be registered nurses. To learn more about the Honor Someone Special program visit www.ons.org/honorsomeonespecial. We thank all ONS chapters for promoting the new Honor Someone Special program to their local members!



GPC-ONS Chapter Oncology Nurse Immersion Program

GPC-ONS Chapter Oncology Nurse Immersion Program 

 

The GPC-ONS Chapter has received grant money from the ONS Foundation for a program to help mentor nursing students who are interested in oncology nursing.  It is a 14 month program (October 2009 - December 2010) and includes partnering the students with an oncology nursing mentor, attending a few of the GPC-ONS Chapter’s educational dinners, and attending the fall ONS conference the Institutes of Learning with their mentor.  All expenses are paid for by the grant and this opportunity for nursing students is to introduce them to oncology nursing.

 

This experience is for junior nursing students who will be senior this fall in a 4- year program or a first year nursing student moving into the second year of a 2-year program.

 

GPC-ONS selected three student mentees and three oncology nurse mentors as part of this program. 

Devon George,  CCAC South Campus

Allison Neal, Duquesne University

Aleysha Williams, CCAC and California University

 

The mentors for these students will be:

 

          Mary Kern

          Judy Collings

          Paula Eubanks

  

  

We welcome our nursing students and hope you find oncology nursing as rewarding and wonderful as we do!!!



CAMP RAISING SPIRITS NEEDS YOU!!!


CAMP RAISING SPIRITS

Held Friday, June 5th through Sunday, June 7th at Laurelville Camp

Camp Raising Spirits celebrated its 16th year in early June.  Camp demonstrates the commitment and dedication of health care providers who know what a difference can be made in the lives of people with cancer by giving them a place to laugh, lounge, and live life a little differently. Look here for news about the 2009 Camp coming soon.  

If you are interested and would like to participate  --- it's not too soon to start thinking about how you can help next year!   More details to come!



GPC-ONS Fund Raiser: The Stephanie McMahon Memorial Cookbook


STEPHANIE MCMAHON MEMORIAL COOKBOOK

 The Oncology Nursing Society –Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (ONS-GPC) is proud to announce that the Stephanie McMahon Memorial Cookbook is AVAILABLEGet your copy TODAY!.  We collected 166 well loved recipes from Stephanie’s family, friends and colleagues.  The recipes include appetizers, main dishes, desserts plus many others and were compiled into an attractive keepsake cookbook with a user friendly bookstand.  All cookbook proceeds will go towards future ONS-GPC Scholarship Awards for ONS Congress, APN and IOL meetings. 

We've sold almost 300 copies -- including copies purchased by other chapter presidents at the ONS Mentorship Weekend!

The cost of each cookbook is $15.00 (checks payable to “ONS-GPC”).  If you are interested in a personal copy or several copies to sell in your work areas, please fill out the coupon below and return via fax to:  Joan M. Latsko @ (412)578-4416. 


A great GIFT Idea!   Click here for the order form and additional information about where to get your copies!  TO ORDER DIRECTLY:  Use this order form.  Special thanks to everyone that contributed to the cookbook and to our cookbook editors, Joan Latsko and Shelia  Czarniecki!
 

 



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