Transcript CNS SIG Meeting

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ONS Congress 2011
Clinical Nurse Specialist SIG Mission
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) SIG exists to
support the role of the clinical nurse specialist in the
advanced practice of oncology nursing.
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* Advocacy -Recognition in the cancer community:
CNS SIG Membership involvement in the local
community.
* Knowledge - Continuous Professional Development
* Partnership - Internal Partnership: Increase the
number of volunteers in the CNS SIG at the
leadership level and continue to mentor and
foster growth of membership to leadership
position and/or active involvement.
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* Recognition in the cancer community: CNS Sig
Membership involvement in the local community
* Deadline: Congress 2011
* Action: Develop a survey to measure the amount of
volunteer work the CNS Sig members (consider sending
to all ONS CNS members) participate in outside of
their paid work.
* Measurable: Report at Congress 2011 and decide
action items at that time. Look for trends in the data
and common organizations. This information could also
be given in a report form to such agencies as ACS and
LLS to show partnership and the expertise of CNSs in
the community.
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* ONCC Board Members:
* Carol Brueggen
* Susan Bruce
* Cynthia Miller Murphy MSN RN CAE
Executive Director
Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation
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* Angela Adjetey RN, MPH, MA, FAACM
Clinical Nurse Specialist Women's Oncology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
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* Gail A. Mallory, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
Director of Research
Oncology Nursing Society
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* Results and actions
* Theresa Koetters, RN, MS
* 83% (n=15) YES
* 17% (n=3) No
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* Discussed with immediate supervisor.
* 33% yes
* 66% no
* To develop a job description
* 50% yes
* 50% no
* Discussed with CNS Students
* 44% yes
* 56% no
* Discussed with CNS Colleagues
* 50% yes
* 50% no
* To develop curriculum for academic
or continuing education
* 22% yes
* 78% no
* I use the competencies to guide
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44% Yes
56% No
my practice at my facility. I am
one of two specialized CNSs in a
community based hospital, and
the competencies have given
me the guidance to help
administration to see the
potential of the CNS role.
* I have used them to
validate/explain expanded
roles, plan for the coming year
(goals), and as a springboard
for a CNS student to focus on
one or two during their clinical.
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* 11% Strongly Agree
* 72% Agree
* 11% Disagree
* 6% Strongly Disagree
Haven't looked at them. Couldn't
answer NA.
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* 22% Very useful
* 61% Somewhat useful
* 17% Not useful
* Scope of practice
* Writing my summary/evaluation
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report for supervisor
* I am in a graduate program for
CNS and have referred to
competencies for writing papers.
* Serve as a general guide to
maintain the basics of my duties
to the organization and my
profession.
* Used for development of general
advanced practice nurse job
descriptions and to defend my
position on requirements for
CNSs to upper management.
* Go beyond the entry level.
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Basically language changes
could help accomplish this
but that would make it
more useful for our more
experience members
* Increase awareness of it's
availability.
Suggestions?
Discussion?
* Better marketing
* Now I 'd like to see
competencies for
experienced CNS
* Continuous Professional Development
* Deadline: Congress 2011
* Action: Develop a task force of CNS Sig
members to evaluate and make
recommendations about Continuous
Professional Development.
* Measurable: White paper from the ONS CNS SIG
to ONS Leadership. Presentation and discussion
at the CNS SIG meeting.
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* ONS is the early stages of a draft addressing
Continuous Professional Development
* Lead by Michele Gaguski, RN, MSN, AOCNS
* For more information
* http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/pdf/Macy
Report.pdf
* Review of the Summary statements
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* Conducted, financed, regulated, and
evaluated.
* The health care workforce is not optimally
prepared to provide the highest quality of care
to patients or to meet public expectations for
quality and safety.
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* The science underpinning CE for health
professionals is fragmented and underdeveloped.
* Difficult to identify effective educational
methods integrate those methods into
coordinated programs that meet the needs of the
diverse range of health professionals.
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* Continuing education efforts should bring
health professionals from various disciplines
together in carefully tailored learning
environments.
* As team-based health care delivery becomes
increasingly important, such interprofessional
efforts will enable participants to learn both
individually and as collaborative members of a
team, with a common goal of improving patient
outcomes.
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* A new, comprehensive vision of professional
development is needed to replace the
culture that now envelops continuing
education in health care.
* To guiding efforts to address flaws in current CE
efforts and to ensure that all health professionals
engage effectively in a process of lifelong
learning aimed squarely at improving patient
care and population health.
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* Establishing a national interprofessional CE
institute is a promising way to foster
improvements in CE for health professionals.
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The creation of a public-private entity that
involves the full spectrum of stakeholders in
health care delivery and continuing education
and that is charged with developing and
overseeing comprehensive change in the way CE
is conducted, financed, regulated, and
evaluated.
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* Internal Partnership: Increase the number of volunteers in the CNS
SIG at the leadership level and continue to mentor and foster
growth of membership to leadership position and/or active
involvement
* Deadline 2012
* Action
* Work with ONS National to develop plan to increase SIG volunteers
* Fill vacancies with a minimum of one person, consider co-chair and
mentoring for VC, editor and historian
* SIG members to participate in the Congress session on Translating
Research into Clinical Practice
* Measurable
* A minimum of 2 candidates will run in the next coordinator
election
* There will be 2 co-editors of the Newsletter and at least 2 new
contributors per newsletter.
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* Review of CNS Sig Needs
* VC Administrator
* Newsletter Contributors
* Communication/Information
* What is best? Networking?
* Plan for future Events/Projects
* Open Discussion & Networking
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