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ONS Regional Conference


		Mark your calendars TODAY for a great conference coming to Pittsburgh! ONS will host a regional conference in Pittsburgh on September 14-15, 2012 at Robert Morris University. The focus of the program will be on Pain Management. The program will offer approximately 8.5 contact hours. This is a great opportunity to meet your colleagues and share your experiences in managing this important symptom for people with cancer. Look here for more details!

ONS Connections

Save the date for the ONS Connections Conference November 16-18, 2012 in Phoenix, AZ. Look to the ONS Website www.ons.org for additional details!

Scholarship Winner Announced

The Greater Pittsburgh Chapter of the Oncology Nursing Society (GPC-ONS) 2012 Stephanie McMahon Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Lydia Wall, DNP, RN. Lydia is a new member of GPC-ONS and is currently a Clinical Instructor at the UPMC Cancer Centers. Lydia has taught undergraduate nursing students in the past and is currently responsible for teaching a variety of oncology classes and lunch and learns at UPMC!

Lydia plans to use the $1500.00 to support her travel and registration for the new ONS fall conference "Connections" that will take place in Phoenix ,AZ in November 2012. You'll be able to read about her adventures at this conference in a future GPC newsletter.

Congratulations Lydia!

Pittsburgh PRIDE

Sure we are proud of our STEELERS. . .

But we'd also like to celebrate our oncology nurse heros! Do you have good news to share about someone you work with ... or your own accomplishments that you'd like to share?

Here are two great examples:

§ Linda Meyer, RN, BSN, OCN received the 2011 Nurse Excellence Award from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Linda is the nurse manager for the the West Penn Allegheny Health System's (WPAHS) radiation oncology network. This award recognizes a nurse and ASTRO member who goes above and beyond the normal standards of nursing practice, promoting excellend in direct patient care and positively portraying the nursing profession. Linda serves GPC-ONS as our President Elect! Congratulations Linda! Well Done!

§ Heather Belansky, RN, MSN co-authored an article with Suzanne Mahon in the February 2012 issues of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing entitled - Using Care Plans to Enchance Care Throughout the Cancer Survivorship Trajectory. Heather is a project manager in the Education Department at the Oncology Nursing Society and serves as the 2012 GPC-ONS President. Great work, Heather!

Send your GOOD NEWS to Laura Fennimore at fennimore3@comcast.net. We'll share our own version of Pittsburgh Pride right here!

Award Winners Announced

Kristen Baileys was the winnter of the 2011 GPC-ONS Exemplar Award and Bruce Kiebler was awarded the 2011 GPC-ONS Joseph Shafer award at the December 2011 GPC-ONS chapter dinner. Congratulations Kristen and Bruce. Thanks to both of you for all your support of GPC-ONS!

GPC-ONS is a great place to win fun prizes as well! Paula Eubanks won a Flip Camera! Come to our next meeting to see what YOU might win.

May 16, 2012

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 Your LOCAL ONS Connection! Visit often 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! Contact our chapter: hbelansky@ons.org

June Chapter Meeting

A big “CONGRATULATIONS!” to GPC-ONS members that either presented or had a poster and the recent Annual ONS Congress in New Orleans! Look for information about our June meeting where you can meet the presenters and talk with them about their work!

Podium:

Anna Vioral: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Implement the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Chemotherapy Safety Standards

Posters:

Marjorlie Leslie: Development and Implementation of an Acuity Model for a Combined Oncology Office and Infusion Center
Linda Tunyon: Integrating New Technologies to Provide Chemotherapy Education at an Outpatient Cancer Center
Laura Fennimore: All Nurses Need to Know: A Collaborative Cancer Education Program for Specialty Nursing Organizations at the Local Chapter Level.
Peg Rosenzweig: Edmonton Symptom Assessment (ESAS) Scores in Heavily Treated Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC)
Robyn Best: Applying Evidence-Based Practice to Hypersensitivity and Anaphylactic Reactions in the Outpatient Oncology Infusion Center

Mark Your Calendars

Mark your calendars for upcoming GPC-ONS meetings in 2012!

June (TBD) Local Chapter Stars (Presentations and Posters from Pittsburgh members who presented at the ONS Congress) & Certification News

July 19 Survivorship -- Lillie Shockney, RN, MSN

Sept 14-15 ONS Regional Conference: Pain Management @ Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh,PA

Meet our newest members

Did you know that as of February 1st ... GPC-ONS has 84 members? Encourage your friends and colleagues to join us. Here are some of our newest members that made the decision to make GPC their LOCAL CONNECTION to ONS!

Welcome to Kathy Hopkins, Sharon Hanchet, and Jean Waldschmidt! They joined GPC-ONS at our February dinner meeting which featured a presentation by Alec Stone, ONS Health Policy Director.

Welcome aboard, Kathy, Sharon, and Jean ! We are glad you've joined us as together we LEARN, ADOVOCATE, and CONNECT!

New Member: Kathy Hopkins

Kathy Hopkins has been an ONS member since 2008 and is currently a full time doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in the BSN to PhD program. She has a master’s degree in engineering but was intrigued by nursing through her nurse friends and came to oncology after helping members of her family with a cancer diagnosis. Her research is focused on post-surgical lung cancer symptom management and post-thoracotomy pain, a symptom that is ill defined and not well studied. She received a clinical scholarship from the ONS Foundation to support her research which includes support for 2 nursing students that assist her with her research.

New Member: Jean Waldschmidt

Jean Waldschmidt is a staff nurse in Radiation Oncology at Allegheny General Hospital. She is a new ONS member and was encouraged to join the local chapter by Linda Meyer. Welcome Jean!

New Member: Sharon Hanchett

Sharon Hanchett has been an oncology nurse for 21 years and has been an ONS member off and on throughout her career. She currently serves as the Clinical Director for Oncology Services at UPMC Shadyside. She was encouraged to join GPC-ONS by Eileen Milakovic. Sharon is actively involved in her community and is serving in her second term as a Councilwoman for the Borough of Swissvale.

SNAP Board Members Attend GPC-ONS Meeting

Raquel Seraday (right) is a nursing student at Shadyside School of Nursing and currently works as a patient care technician on 7 Main at UPMC Shadyside. Jen Eddy (left) is a nursing student at Westmoreland Community College. They are both board members (Secretary and Treasurer) for the Student Nurses Association of Pennsylvania which will be celebrating its 60^th anniversary this year along with the National Student Nurses Association. NSNA will host its annual meeting in Pittsburgh in April.

Bright young faces and hopefully future oncology nurses! Congratulations Raquel and Jen!

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 Anna Vioral for serving as our newsletter editor.

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

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.

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.

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