Episode 241: 2023 Is Your Year to Advocate With ONS

<p>“It’s important for all nurses to advocate—for themselves, for their practice, for their profession, for their patients. Without the nursing community advocating for itself, no other entity will. It is the nurses’ responsibility to be their own advocate,” Alec Stone, MA, MPA, ONS director of government affairs, told Jaime Weimer, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about how you can advocate for oncology nursing with ONS. You can earn free NCPD contact hours after listening to this episode and completing the evaluation linked below.</p> <p>Music Credit: “<a href="http://www.incompetech.com/">Fireflies and Stardust</a>” by Kevin MacLeod</p> <p>Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0</p> <p>Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by January 6, 2025. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of NCPD by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.</p> <p>Learning outcome: Participants will report an increase in knowledge related to advocating for oncology nursing with ONS.</p> <p><strong>Episode Notes</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://courses.ons.org/diweb/gateway/init/1/f/catalog*2Fitem*2Feid*2FP481"> Complete this evaluation for free NCPD</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://ons1.realmagnet.land/ONSHealthPolicy">Get updates on the issues affecting oncology nurses</a>.</li> <li><a href="mailto:astone@ons.org">Contact Alec Stone</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://voice.ons.org/author/alec-stone">Read more from Alec Stone</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.ons.org/network/ons-chapters">Join a local ONS chapter</a>.</li> <li><em>ONS Voice</em> articles: <ul> <li><a href= "https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/legislation-and-cancer-care">Legislation and Cancer Care: New Policies Improve Nursing Practice