The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), through an educational grant from AMGEN Inc., will be offering eight symptom management workshops in 1996. The course, entitled "Care of the Patient with Cancer Experiencing Hematopoietic/GI Symptoms," is designed to improve nurse's ability to assess and manage hematopoieses and GI symptoms in cancer patients.

Objectives of the course include examining the impact of cancer and cancer treatment on normal blood function, discussing cancer-related symptoms, developing a plan of care for patients experiencing these symptoms, and identifying signs exhibited by patients.

The workshops will be held at a variety of sites in the Fall of 1996. Dates and sites are September 20 in Rochester, New York; September 21 in Louisville, Kentucky; October 25 in Billings, Montana; and October 26 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The distinguished faculty includes June Eilers, RN, MSN, PhDc, CS Clinical Nurse Specialist Oncology/Hematology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Marie Whedon, RN, MS, AOCN, FAAN, Hematology/Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for the spring workshops and Barbara Barnes Rogers, RN, MN, OCN, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Kim Rumsey, RN, MSN, OCN, Instructor at the Houston Baptist University for the fall workshops.

The Oncology Nursing Society will award 6.6 contact hours to registered nurses who attend the workshop.

For additional information about the upcoming workshops, contact:

ONS; Education Department; 501 Holiday Drive; Pittsburgh, PA 15220; (412) 921-7373 x 553 (phone); (412) 921-6565 (FAX); [email protected] (e-mail)

The Oncology Nursing Society is a national organization of more than 25,000 registered nurses dedicated to excellence in patient care, teaching, research, administration and education in the field of oncology. ONS is the largest professional membership oncology association in the world.