1989
- Eighteen ONS special interest groups (SIGs) are established.
1988
- ONS becomes an American Nurses Association-accredited approver and provider of continuing education.
1987
- The Oncology Nursing Press, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of ONS, is incorporated.
1984
- The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC), an independent affiliate, is incorporated.
- ONS publishes its first set of chemotherapy recommendations, Cancer Chemotherapy Guidelines. These guidelines are later revised ten times. The most recent revision is Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice (second edition).
1983
- ONS Hires Pearl Moore, RN, MN, FAAN, as its first executive director.
1981
- The Oncology Nursing Foundation is established.
1980
- ONS conducts our first research priorities survey.
- The first ONS chapters, Chicago and Cleveland, are chartered.
1978
- ONS's first journal, the Oncology Nursing Forum , is indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and in the International Nursing Index.
1977
- ONS is accepted into the National Federation of Specialty Nursing Organizations.
1975
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- ONS is incorporated on July 17, 1975 in Illinois.