Certification News - Spring 2008 - (Page 8)

Vo l u m e X X I I , N o . 1 S p r i n g 2 0 0 8 certification/news Employers Receive Plaques Recognizing Certified Staff O NCC recently presented 31 plaques to institutions where a majority of the professional nurses (more than 50%) are oncology certified. ONCC presents these plaques free of charge to any patient care facility that meets the majority requirement. Congratulations to those who received plaques. Alaska Native Medical Center, Oncology in Anchorage Albany Internal Medicine Group, Albany Oncology & Infusion Clinic in Oregon Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, Martha Morehouse Plaza 11th Floor Infusion Center in Columbus, OH Augusta Oncology Associates in Georgia Capital Region Medical Center, Cancer Center in Jefferson City, MO Centegra Health System, Sage Cancer Center in McHenry, IL CentraState Medical Center, Inpatient Oncology in Freehold, NJ Children’s Hospital and Regional Medi- cal Center, Hematology/Oncology Outpatient Clinic in Seattle, WA Christ Hospital and Medical Center, Outpatient Oncology in Oak Lawn, IL Coburn Cancer Center, Cancer Research in St. Cloud, MN Coburn Cancer Center, Medical Oncology in St. Cloud, MN Coburn Cancer Center, Radiation Oncology in St. Cloud, MN Community Cancer Care Specialists in Mt. Clemens, MI Cumberland Oncology and Hematology in Oak Ridge, TN Emory Healthcare–Winship Cancer Institute, Ambulatory Treatment Center in Atlanta Good Samaritan Hospital, Drs. Hahn and Padgett in Baltimore, MD Great Falls Clinic, Clinic Cancer Care in Montana Greater Baltimore Medical Center Cancer Center, Lois Harvey Miller Infusion Therapy Center in Maryland Jupiter Medical Center-Foshay Cancer Center, Radiation Oncology in Florida Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oncology Department at Kaiser Medical Center in Richmond, CA M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX Medical Oncology Associates of Long Island, Nursing Department in Woodbury, NY Miami Valley Hospital, Gyn-Oncology Center in Dayton, OH Milford Regional Medical Center/Community Cancer Care in Massachusetts New Bern Cancer Care in North Carolina Penobscot Bay Medical Center, Cancer Care center in Rockport, ME Providence Regional Cancer Partnership, Cancer Program in Everett, WA Samaritan Medical Center, Radiation Oncology in Watertown, NY St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Oncology Medical Unit in Boise, ID University Medical Center at Princeton in New Jersey Washington Hematology-Oncology in Yakima Readers Respond Nurses Share Benefits of Volunteering of the responses received. “Volunteering for various committee and board positions over the past decade within my local ONS chapter and other state nursing organizations has provided me with phenomenal collaborative and leadership opportunities that otherwise would have been denied to me in my current nursing capacity. Here, I have a safe place to hone leadership skills. Here, I can observe, learn, prepare, and perfect skills needed to be influential within nursing. Volunteering provides 8 T he winter issue of the ONCC News asked “How have you benefitted from volunteering?” The following is a sample me with the opportunity to control my own destiny, both personal and professional, in numerous venues. I can exercise personal and professional rights and responsibilities. For me, having learned about policies and mechanisms in the process of volunteering, through organizational participation, has shortened my learning curve on how to influence the policy process at numerous levels of governance and government.” -Susan Wozniak, RN, MS, OCN® Detroit, MI (See “Readers Respond,” page 10)

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Certification News - Spring 2008

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