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1976
- In January 1976, ONS charter membership is recorded at 488 members.
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.
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