13th ESO-EONS Masterclass in Oncology Nursing

Chair: W. Oldenmenger, NL
Coordinator: J. De Munter, BE
Advisor: T. Wiseman, UK


The Masterclass in Oncology Nursing programme is designed for European advanced cancer nurses as a multi professional joint event. Five intensive days of full immersion in up-to-date oncology will create a collective spirit of teaching and learning to improving clinical skills and patient care. Nursing sessions are specific nursing-oriented sessions exploring specialist practice skills such as assessment and decision making, communication skills, complex symptom management, research in nursing, psychosocial consequences of cancer therapy to mention a few. Other sessions will provide the forum for reviewing and understanding the growing evidence base for nursing interventions and reflect on participant’s role in clinical leadership. Case studies will be presented by the participants and will explore nursing practice focusing on special aspects of care. Special joint sessions, together with physicians, will highlight and support the growing need for multiprofessionality in chosen topics. Practical training will be offered in smaller group sessions, case study sessions focusing on skills necessary for patient care management.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The Masterclass aims to prepare oncology nurses for future senior roles and enhance their clinical knowledge in the management of the cancer patient during all phases of the cancer journey. Following completion of the course nurses will be able to use evidence-based knowledge in effective symptom management and interventions with the aim to improve patient experience, symptom management and care.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Understand new developments in oncology disease management.
• Recognize and describe acute and late adverse effects of cancer and its treatment.
• Identify complex patient needs across the cancer trajectory.
• Demonstrate understanding of advanced communication skills in oncology nursing care.
• Critically appraise the evidence for cancer symptom management and care interventions.
• Reflect on theoretical underpinnings of decision making.
• Describe the role of the advanced oncology nurse in leading clinical nursing care.

TEACHING FORMAT
The Masterclass offers plenary lectures regarding state-of-the-art clinical evaluation and treatments with reference to clinical guidelines and which will include notes and resources.
Participants will be supported within small groups and discuss personal development plans with tutors in the faculty. Skills based clinical sessions will be interactive and participants must be prepared to join in. All participants will reside at the course venue and participation in the nursing sessions is compulsory throughout the course. The Masterclass will be entirely in English and fluency in English is necessary for admission. Participants of the Masterclass in Nursing Oncology will attend selected medical sessions. Clinical case studies, submitted prior to the course, will be a requirement for all participants. The faculty will evaluate which case studies will be presented for group discussion.

THE MASTERCLASS IS:
• A 3.5-day residential educational event
• Full immersion
• Clinically-oriented
• Multidisciplinary
• An international faculty of top experts delivering advanced concepts

The Masterclass in Oncology Nursing is an ESO-EONS joint event

ORGANISING SECRETARIAT
European Oncology Nursing Society, EONS Secretariat
c/o Haysmacintyre, 26 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4AG, United Kingdom
Secretariat: Rudi Brike
E. Mounier 83,
1200 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 2 779 9923, Fax +32 2 779 9937
eons.secretariat@cancernurse.eu

ACCREDITATION
The Masterclass programme will be accredited by the European Oncology Nursing Society.

PARTICIPANT'S PROFILE
• Person working at an advanced nursing practice level, and with at least 3-5 years of clinical cancer nursing practice (a Master of Nursing Science degree is not mandatory)
• Person involved in direct patient care, also combined with the management, organisations and co-ordination of cancer patient care,
• Fluent in English (reading and speaking),
• Member of an EONS member society or individual member of EONS

Participants will be selected by means of a strict application review.

HOW TO APPLY
Complete Application Form
(available at www.cancernurse.eu or on request to eons.secretariat@cancernurse.eu)
Only applications with all required information will be considered.

ATTENDANCE TO THE MASTERCLASS IS BY APPLICATION ONLY.
SUCCESS FULL APPLICANTS ARE GRANTED FREE REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION. TRAVEL COSTS WILL NOT BE COVERED.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5 June 2022

Philippe Aftimos, Institut Jules Bordet, Dept. of Medical Oncology, Anderlecht, BE
Anne Arber, University of Surrey, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Guildford, UK
Giuseppe Curigliano, European Institute of Oncology / University of Milan, New Drugs for Innovative Therapies Division, Milano, IT
Alessandra Curioni-Fontecedro, University Hospital Zurich, Dept of Oncology, Zurich, CH
Johan De Munter, University Hospital Ghent, Cancer Centre, Ghent, BE
Andrew Hoy, Epsom, UK
Gilberto Morgan, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, SE
Wendy Oldenmenger, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Medical Oncology Dept., Rotterdam, NL
Nicholas Pavlidis, University of Ioannina (Emeritus Professor), Oncology Dpt., Ioannina, GR
Fedro Alessandro Peccatori, European Institute of Oncology, Dept. of Fertility and Procreation in Oncology, Milano, IT
Lena Sharp, Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm-Gotland, Cancer Care Improvement Dpt., Stockholm, SE
Theresa Wiseman, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Dept. of Applied Health Research in Cancer Care, London, UK