ONS Makes Changes to Chemotherapy Course for 2014

You asked, and we lis­tened. Although it’s cru­cial to your day-to-day work as an oncol­ogy nurse, you’ve told us that the vast amount of con­tent cov­ered in the ONS Chemother­apy and Bio­ther­apy course is dif­fi­cult to absorb over the two-day, 16-hour in-person time­frame. To bet­ter meet your needs, ONS is replac­ing the two-day, face-to-face chemother­apy course with an inter­ac­tive, com­pre­hen­sive, online course that will offer a cer­tifi­cate indi­cat­ing the learner pos­sesses spe­cific spe­cialty knowl­edge (from ONCC) and a con­tin­u­ing nurs­ing edu­ca­tion cer­tifi­cate and provider card (from ONS).

The Case of the Out of Order Chemotherapy Order

April is car­ing for a patient with bil­iary can­cer. She receives a new chemother­apy order for cis­platin fol­lowed by gem­c­itabine on days 1 and 8 every three weeks. The stan­dard sequence in April’s hos­pi­tal is to admin­is­ter plat­inum agents last. How­ever, the order clearly states to admin­is­ter the cis­platin first. What would you do?

Contributors and Staff

ONS Staff

Elisa Becze, BA, ELS
Editor, Man­ag­ing Edi­tor, and Staff Writer
ONSConnectEditor@ons.org

Chris Pirschel
Staff Writer
cpirschel@ons.org

Allyson Wilson
Graphic Designer

Contributors

Deb Christensen, RN, BSN, HNB-BC
deborah.christensen@imail.org

Laurl Matey, MSN, RN, CHPN
lmatey@ons.org

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Joni Watson, MSN, MBA, RN, OCN®, is Director of Medical Oncology at the Baylor Scott and White Cancer Center—Hillcrest. Joni holds her degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Texas at Tyler and is a member of the Central Texas ONS chapter (CTONS). She resides in Waco, TX, and enjoys reading, shoe shopping, and spending time with her family. You can also find Joni at Nursetopia.net.

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