SIOG NAH/CANO/EONS position statement on oncology nursing care for older adults endorsed by ONS |
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With EONS and CANO the SIOG NAH group will look into funding opportunities to develop online educational modules for geriatric oncology nurses as our survey identified gaps in the current education available. We will also continue with our educational activities at the SIOG Annual Conference (such as the geriatric assessment workshop and our webinars). We are working on infographics for everyone to share with your colleagues and leadership to advocate for the needs of older adults with cancer and support and resources for geriatric oncology nursing and we will distribute those as soon as we have them available.
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SIOG 2021 Call for Abstracts: Hints and Tips for Abstract Writing |
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by Dr. Fay Strohschein
The call for abstracts for the SIOG 2021 Virtual Conference has been launched and we are encouraging nursing and allied health professionals and students to submit their work!
Nurses and allied health professionals and students are doing important work in geriatric oncology worldwide. The upcoming SIOG 2021 Virtual Conference provides an important opportunity to share this work. In addition to research projects and literature reviews, this work may include clinical initiatives, educational programs, or other quality improvement projects impacting care of older adults with cancer and their families. In this brief article, we highlight the benefits of submitting an abstract, summarize what makes a good abstract, and provide some hints and tips for writing the abstract. We include key links and additional references to guide your writing.<More>
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The next SIOG NAH webinar will be held on May 25 at 1:00pm (Toronto time) or 7:00pm (Geneva time)
and will discuss "Shared decision making in older surgical cancer patients. Changing the trajectory by involving geriatricians and nurses" by Drs. Hanneke van der Wal and Suzanne Festen.
In this webinar, Drs. van der Wal and Festen review the care pathway they developed for older cancer patients in need for surgery for their solid malignancy. For this, we have trained nurses to perform a GA and an assessment on patients’ preferences on treatment recommendations, and this information is shared by the nurse in a multidisciplinary team discussion. Results show that this information, together with the presence of a geriatrician in het MDT, leads in 27% to a different treatment recommendation for our older surgical cancer patient. <More>
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We are looking for volunteers who would like to share their experiences in the field of geriatric oncology for our NAH members on a webinar. These webinars are typically 40 min presentation and 20 minutes for discussion and can be organised on a day and time that works for you.
Please contact Martine at Martine.puts@utoronto.ca if you are interested in presenting your work (can be your clinical work, a QI project, a research project, or your doctoral work) to learn from each other.
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- Arthur EK, Worly B, Carpenter KM, Postl C, Rosko AE, Krok-Schoen JL, Quick AM, Jenkins LC. Let's get it on: Addressing sex and intimacy in older cancer survivors. J Geriatr Oncol. 2021;12(2):312-5.
- Basu P, Tripathi R, Mehrotra R, Ray K, Srivastava A, Srivastava A. Role of integrative medicine in the continuum of care of breast cancer patients in the Indian context. Cancer Causes Control. 2021;32(5):429-40.
- Baxter MAJ, Madureira T, Haase K, Battisti NML. Perspectives on geriatric oncology research presented at the 2020 ESMO Science Congress. J Geriatr Oncol. 2021;12(3):489-97.
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Paulina Gallardo Mura
Paulina Gallardo Mura is an oncology nurse from the University of Chile, with 11 years working in the management of adult patients in chemotherapy of solid tumors. She currently works as a coordinating nurse in the clinical hospital of the University of Chile and in the Onco Geriatrics unit of the hospital and is a member of the scientific committee of the Chilean Society of Oncological Nursing.
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Thank you to everyone who joined the NAH forum meeting. We got several ideas and we will work with volunteers who are interested in joining the project.
If you were not able to join the call and see a topic on the list or a different topic not on the list that you would like to do together with the entire NAH group please let us know!
Our NAH governance group picked 2 of the identified at the meeting to work on next. We are looking for volunteers to lead the project or to be involved in the project, so please let us know if you would like to be involved!
- Loneliness and social isolation, and access to care
- Nurses roles /participation in shared decision making
If you would like to participate in the project please email martine.puts@utoronto.ca. We will contact everyone who volunteered shortly to get started.
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Search for Delphi panel participants for GerOnTe |
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Delphi panel: For our upcoming Delphi panel, we are looking for participants with experience in breast-, colorectal-, lung- and prostate cancer in older persons. Our question is; “Which core data set should we collect for oncologic decision making and which information will change the care trajectory in older patients with cancer? “
GerOnTe: This Delphi panel is the start of GerOnTe, an H2020 European funded project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 945218
Our ultimate goal is to develop the ideal care-pathway for the older patient with multimorbidity and cancer. For more information click here.
Time: The online survey will take 15 minutes of your time, in four rounds, so in total one hour or your time, each round with four weeks apart. The first round started April 22.
Would you like to join? Click here
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You can find all issues of the SIOG NAH newsletter online at www.siog.org and on our Facebook page (SIOG Nursing & Allied Health Interest Group).
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