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1976

2009

Then-ONS President Brenda Nevidjon, MSN, RN, FAAN, is present at the White House as President Obama signs into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
ONS introduces its patient-focused publishing imprint, Hygeia Media, and launch its first books.

2008

The first ONS public policy advocate is hired to help raise awareness for cancer nurses, patients, and research.
The first-ever ONS initiated legislation is introduced in Congress: Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2008.

2012

ONS is granted full membership into the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI).
The Educator Resource Center is launched, with teaching tools for incorporating oncology topics into nursing degree programs.
ONS and ONCC launch the Radiation Oncology Nursing Certificate Program.

2013

ONS receives a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to test new strategies for improving the quality of cancer care.
ONS is awarded Accreditation with Distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education, the highest recognition awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC’s) Accreditation Program.

2014

The number of ONS chapters exceeds 220.
Brenda Nevidjon, RN, MSN, FAAN, becomes ONS’s third chief executive officer.
Oncology Nursing Forum is ranked first for impact factor from among 106 journals in the nursing category.
ONS hosts a congressional briefing on palliative care.
The ONS/ONCC Chemotherapy Biotherapy Certificate Course is launched; more than 40,000 participants register in its first year.
Then-ONS President Mary Gullatte, PhD, RN, ANP, BC, AOCN®, FAAN, was appointed to the Joint Commission Nursing Advisory Council for the 2014–2016 term.

ONS receives the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in the consumer health category. This Should Not Be Happening: Young Adults With Cancer, written by Dr. Anne Katz, took first place.

2015

An ONS member is appointed by President Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB).
ONS launches a Quality Clinical Data Registry (QCDR).
ONS narrows its core values to three: innovation, excellence, and advocacy.
PEP continues to evolve, publishing A Guide to Oncology Symptom Management (second edition).

2016

ONS CEO Brenda Nevidjon, RN, MSN, FAAN, is invited by Vice President Biden's staff to be on the roundtable panel at Duke University to discuss the moonshot initiative. Also, Vice President Biden holds additional moonshot roundtables later in February in which two ONS members represent oncology nursing.
ONS member and past president Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN®, FAAN, is appointed to the National Cancer Institute Blue Ribbon Panel to advise the NCAB as part of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative. She is the only nurse appointed.
Three ONS members are appointed to the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative Blue Ribbon Panel working groups, which will identify major areas of opportunity that could lead to significant breakthroughs in cancer research.
ONS secures office space in Washington, DC, to open the first satellite office on Capitol Hill.
ONS launches ONS Communities—a virtual discussion platform for members to network and share information and experiences with colleagues across the country and around the world. The Communities were previously the ONS SIGs that were established in 1989.
ONS and ASCO updated the national standards for the safe administration of chemotherapy drugs.

2006

Paula Rieger, RN, MSN, CAE, FAAN becomes ONS's second chief executive officer.
Putting Evidence into Practice (PEP) makes its debut in the form of cards.
ONS and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) develop the first national standards for the safe administration of chemotherapy drugs, updated in 2016.
OES is renamed ONS Edge, Inc.
ONS gets new branding and introduces today’s logo.

2002

ONS moves into its new national headquarters at 125 Enterprise Drive in Pittsburgh, PA.

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