Assignment: Oncology Nursing Certification
Assignment: Oncology Nursing Certification
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Puerto Rico, Utah, U.S. Virgin Islands, West Virginia, and Wisconsin

FULL PRACTICE

Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii,

Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New

Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon,

Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming

Note. Based on information from American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2018b.
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Fitzgerald et al., 2012; Merchant, 2012; National Council of State Boards of Nursing [NCSBN], 2014).

Equally as important in the process of educating newly hired ONPs is identifying and supporting ONP preceptors specialized in the field of oncology (Bazzell, Jones, Dains, & Champion, 2017). In addition to developing clinical skills and knowledge, new ONPs also require mentoring in the areas of professional collegiality and confidence building when communicating with patients and colleagues. These objectives are best achieved by NP preceptors rather than physician colleagues (Rosenzweig et al., 2012). For an effective preceptor to best educate and mentor a newly hired ONP, the preceptor needs training and support.

Educating and training a successful ONP workforce is a collaborative effort that involves academic institutions, health- care facilities, professional organizations, and individual ONPs. Learning is a lifelong process that is essential to provide effective care to patients with cancer. The overall goal is to prepare ONPs to practice as independent providers in a collaborative clinical setting that provides safe, quality, and compassionate care to people with cancer (Fitzgerald et al., 2012; LeFlore & Thomas, 2016).

Licensure Congruent with the IOM’s (2011) Future of Nursing report, there is movement at the state level to seek alignment and unifor- mity in licensure for all APRN roles: NPs, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) across six pop- ulation foci through the APRN consensus model (NCSBN, 2008) (see Figure 2). Endorsed by ONS and the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC), this model was developed through work by the NCSBN APRN Advisory Committee and the

APRN Consensus Work Group. It is aimed at assisting healthcare providers, state and national legislative bodies, and the general public to better understand the role of the APRN and provide uni- formity in regulation (NCSBN, 2008).

Although the target date to reach consensus was December 2016, fewer than half of the states in the United States have achieved full practice authority (NCSBN, 2018).

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.