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Click on the following link to access the 2012 membership brochure:  ONS Membership Brochure 2012.docx
Please fill it out and bring it to the next meeting or mail it to the address on the brochure.
 
The email list for the Charlotte ONS chapter has grown quite lengthy over the last few years.  In order to accommodate our members at the monthly meetings, future emails will only go out to current members.  We welcome guests for a $10.00 fee per meeting with a limit of two meetings per year.  Guests will need to come with a member, who will RSVP on their behalf.
 
We hope to see many of you at the next meeting.

Feel free to email us with any questions or comments at GCAONS@gmail.com 

Congratulations to Tessa Adams, our 2011 Oncology Nurse of the Year!  

Tessa has been a nurse for 25 years. She has worked for CMC for 10 years through the Blumenthal Cancer Center and has been in clinical trials for 4+ years. Tessa's husband is also an oncology nurse and her daughter is exploring the healthcare field as well.

Tessa: "I truly enjoy my job and I think the one thing that has helped me be the nurse I am today is I try to treat everyone the way I want to be treated. I think if more people did that, this world would be a better place." 

The following statement is quoted from Danny Liebl's nomination essay:

"She became not only my go-to person, but my personal "Angel."  She was the person I could always count on when everything else in my world seemed to be crumbling."

Congratulations Tessa Adams and thank you for making a difference in the world of oncology nursing!

At each of our monthly meetings, we are collecting your spare change.  At the end of the year, members can nominate patients to receive this money as a holiday gift.  One patient and their family will be given a check on behalf of the Greater Charlotte Area ONS to celebrate their holidays.

GREAT JOB TO THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL TEAM!

As many of you know, our chapter was awarded a grant (Ensuring Cancer Care Tomorrow By Developing Nurses Today) to sponsor two students to become members of our chapter for the year.  These students will attend our monthly meetings and will receive information from National ONS to take the ONS Cancer Basics Course and will receive a resource guide about oncology as a nursing specialty career. 
 
     An e-mail was sent out to all local nursing schools, encouraging students to apply.  Thank you to the committee who read all of these applications.  The winners were:

Jeanette Atherly

and

Sarah Alexander

Please welcome these students to our meetings every month and share your love of oncology nursing!