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EONS’ new President Dr Andreas Charalambous sets out his vision for EONS from 2019-2021
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EONS12 saw the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) Presidency pass from Dr Lena Sharp to Dr Andreas Charalambous, from Cyprus, who will lead EONS for the coming two years. Andreas thanked Lena for all her outstanding work and deep commitment to moving cancer nursing forward during her presidency. Our new President then presented the many exciting plans he has for the directions our organisation will take under the inspiring heading, “Together We Can and We Will”. Read more here
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Interview with Elisabeth Patiraki – EONS Lifetime Achievement Award 2019
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Elisabeth Patiraki, Professor and Vice Chair at the Nursing Department of the University of Athens, Greece, was presented with the prestigious EONS Lifetime Achievement Award at EONS12. Elisabeth has made a huge contribution to the development of cancer nursing in Greece and beyond. Here she talks to EONS Magazine Editor Helen Oswald about what shaped her career, her involvement with EONS and her hopes for the future of cancer nursing. Read more here
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Patient safety and healthcare quality –
A voyage of discovery
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Ciara Kirke explains how achieving high reliability in cancer care is a voyage of discovery and a huge challenge for us all. High reliability involves the achievement of consistently and increasingly effective and safe performance. Here she takes us through what we can do to achieve improvement. Read more here
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Sexual Health Care Training for Nurses in Acute and Palliative Care
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Dr Constantina Papadopoulou looks at the ways in which compromised sexuality and/or fertility caused by cancer can have an adverse effect on a person’s psycho-emotional, physical and social well-being and how we can help address these issues. Read more here
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Cancer nursing at the sharp end of care:
How can we keep passion for our work?
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Lisa Smeds Alenius invites us to take a personal look at our motivation to begin to tackle this important issue at the heart of our cancer nursing practice. One way of approaching this issue is by starting from the beginning, with the questions: What was it that made you want to become a nurse? What got you into nursing? Read more here
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ACC: The role of nursing in genetic cancer care
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Prof. Dr. Maria C. Katapodi looks at how nurses can respond to this rapidly developing field and explains the benefits of the ACC model – Access, Coping, Communication – as the starting point for surmounting barriers to cancer genetic and genomic services. Although greater numbers of individuals require specialised cancer genetic and genomic (G&G) services (counseling and testing), disparities exist for medically underserved groups, ethnic minorities, those with low income, low literacy, living in rural communities, and according to citizenship and cancer status. Read more here
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