ONCOLOGY NURSING SOCIETY BREAST CARE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETING MINUTES APPROVED DATE: Thursday, May 13, 2010 PLACE: San Diego, CA, San Diego Convention Center, Room 4 TIME: 2 PM (PT) 3:30 PM (PT) RECORDER: Julia Whiteker ATTENDEES: (List of attendees attached) I. Welcome/Introductions SIG Coordinator, Mary Scheid, RN, MSN, OCN, introduced Jean Rosniak chair of ONS nominating committee. Jean encouraged involvement in ONS and suggested many ways to get involved including writing for the SIG newsletter and running for elected office. II. III. State of the SIG M. Scheid reported on the state of the BRC SIG. 900 plus members 2009 minutes of the SIG meeting approved by membership SIG survey results: More networking needed, working on creating more networking opportunities Membership is very well educated Work in a variety of settings-encouraged reaching out to our inpatient colleagues for SIG memberships Encouraged submission of presentation ideas Announcements/Recognitions M. Scheid recognized SIG leaders by presenting Certificates of Appreciation. Darcy Burbage ONC Pearl Moore Making a Difference Certification Champion for this year, asked to step forward. D. Burbage was the first coordinator of the Breast Care SIG and we wanted to congratulate her for this honor. Cynthia Brioli won the SIG newsletter award and her article on Partial Breast Irradiation is available on the BRC SIG Virtual Community. Elaine Sein will present on the Nursing Quality indicators for Breast Care on Saturday. Linda Eaton presented a study on coping skills for women with breast cancer. She is asking us to help with recruitment. More information for patients or nurses at www.cancercoping.org. She needs to recruit over a hundred women for the study from all over the country. The first raffle was performed and the winner was: Mary Roony (Taking Care of Your Girls-book).
M. Scheid announced that although they couldn t be here today, the leadership of the SIG would like to call for volunteers in their areas: COORDINATOR (2009-2011) Mary Scheid, RN, MSN, OCN mary.scheid@bannerhealth.com EX-OFFICIO (2009-2010) Carole Martz, RN, MS, APN, CBCN, AOCN Mount Prospect, IL cmartz@northshore.org Coordinator Elect (2010-2011) Amy Rettig MSN, MALM, RN, CNS, CBCN Amy.rettig@osumc.edu EDITOR Alisa Penrod, RN, MSN alisasp@consolidated.net Lynn Lutwin, RN, OCN llutwin@somerset-healthcare.com Delores Saddler, RN, MSN, BSN, CGRN dsadd92935@aol.com Julia Whiteker, MSN, RN, AOCNS jwhiteke@clarian.org WEB-PAGE CO-ADMINISTRATOR Susan Bowman, RN, MSW, CBCN, OCN sbowman2@wellspan.org WEB PAGE CO-ADMINISTRATOR Rita Battaglini, RN, BSN, CBCN, OCN rita.battaglini@jeffersonhospital.org PATIENT EDUCATION WORKGROUP Dara Leichter, RN, MHA, CBCN, OCN dara1@comcast.net BREAST CARE CERTIFICATION WORK GROUP CHAIR Elaine Sein, RN, BSN, CBCN, OCN elaine.sein@fccc.edu PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION WORKGROUP Peggy Thomas, RN, BSN, MN, CCR, AOCN peggy.thomas@memorialhealthsystem.com Please consider writing an article for the newsletter or volunteering to help in any of the above areas. Elaine Stein: ONS project team representing our SIG, developing patient centered nurse sensitive quality indicators for breast cancer, Diane Otte and Susan Beck (project team leader). She then discussed the development of the role of nurse navigator at her location and then the book that she and her navigators recently developed to help nurse navigators to start their own practice and develop their role: Breast Care Coordinators/Navigators orientation Manual. These books can be ordered - one was raffled to Becky McClelland
M. Scheid encouraged everyone to get certified as a CBCN. IV. Goals 2009-2012 Advocacy: if you are not a member of ONS STAT, you should join. It is our voice in Congress. 10% increase is needed. Goal of more nurses from the SIG passing the CBCN certification. Partnership: coordinate a relationship with breast cancer entities. No one had objections to these goals and they passed as stated. Leadership succession: please consider becoming involved in the SIG. topic of interest for SIG membership: Pain management with core biopsies and SLN, and after the biopsy/bruising? V. SIG Needs Historian take and collect pictures and document. Yvonne Ward volunteered for this position. Guidelines for leadership: Newsletter Editor the editor wants to set some standards of minimum participation for editors accountability. Some of these were presented to the attendees and they agreed to the standards. Virtual Community wants to set some standards as well. These standards were agreed upon by the attendees. Y. Ward spoke about her involvement in fundraising for the Hope Lodge. She presented a video that she made about the Shave to Save event. M. Scheid showed a picture of a woman who paints her bald head and has turned this into a business. Amy Rettig shared about a patient who has developed a CD for healing they distribute to patients. She also described a quilting project. D. Burbage suggested using the discussion area on the Virtual Community for sharing clinical ideas and questions. This would promote collaboration and EBP. Someone talked about a post mastectomy painting project in her area. These could be posted as links on the BRC SIG Virtual Community. New Coordinator elect: Amy Rettig was introduced and she gave a short bio. VI. VII. Topic Submission Ideas Areas of interest to membership Institutes of Learning and Congress presentations. Need to have a round table format for informal interaction. Discussion
M. Scheid asked participants to discuss how they are tracking patients: Excel, exemplo, nurse navigator, and other programs. E. Sein discussed the expense of the programs and suggested discussing the possibility of their own IT program creating something like this. None of these commercial tracking systems are actually interfacing with any EMRs although they promise that this is possible. Discussed a possible collaboration with Breastcancer.org to do research on the discussion boards. C. Brioli said a few words about her award winning article. VIII. Final Raffle Yvonne Ward won the scarf Helen James won the CBCN course Kim Grindrod won the CBCN test fee IX. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 PM (PT). Attendees List for BRC SIG Meeting SIG Members E-mail Specialty Melody Badali mbadali@utah.gov breast screening Darlene Baza dbaza@utah.gov breast care Ruth Ann Bishop-Sotak rprabs@comcast.net breast onc Sara Campbell sara.campbell@sanofi-aventis.com oncology Suzanne Campbell abuelasu@aol.com breast care Jolene Clifford jclifford@cancercenter.org * breast health navigator Rosemarie Cordes rosemariecordes@hotmail.com breast care Pat Cowan grandmafluff@suddenlink.net breast health Ann Cuvala acuvala@aol.com * breast health LeeAnn Dobson ldobson@wpahs.org breast Kim Grindrod powder244@bresnan.net rad onc breast surg Deborah Hamolsky debby.hamolsky@ucsfmedctr.org breast care Imy Juguilon imejuguilon@yahoo.com breast rad onc Terri Martin tbmartin412@verizon.net * breast Carol Maynard carolnglenn@earthlink.net breast navigator Amy Rettig amy.rettig@osumc.edu breast health Jeanie Rosiak jeanie@wi.rr.com surg breast onc Shannon Sadoudi shannoncarnie@sbcglobal.net comm. health early det Wilma Sameshima wsam93@comcast.net breast nurse Mary Scheid mary.scheid@bannerhealth.com Elaine Sein elaine.sein@fccc.edu breast Patricia Simmers Simmers@cox.net med onc Barb Sobolewski barbsobe@hotmail.com breast Mary Stephenson mary.j.stephenson@kp.org breast care Sondra Swain swainsh@upmc.edu breast Karen Tol-Beimers k.tol@lsala.nl breast onc Albina Turner albina.turner@tmcmed.org * breast health navigator Renita Vance vance.renita@gene.com med onc Heather Vanderploeg heather.vanderploeg@astrazeneca.com breast onc Yvonne Ward yward@kumc.edu * Julia Whiteker jwhiteker@clarian.org Breast care
Not SIG Member Judy Billingsley mnjbillingsley@comcast.net breast Cheryl Blaskowski cblaskowski@sbcglobal.net rad onc Diane Drake drdrake@cox.net research Linda Eaton lineaton@comcast.net research Mary Ernest Bill2ski@aol.com breast survivorship Sharon Feinberg fleetfeeter@att.net breast navigator Grisel Fernandez-Vega gfernandez7@med.miami.edu rad onc/breast care Helen Jenks helen_jenks@yahoo.com * onc breast Delores Knapp deluck5@yahoo.com med onc Leanne Long usa_eh93@yahoo.com * onc Raquel Maluf-Contreres raquelmc@baptisthealth.net med onc Denise Markt denisemarkt@yahoo.com outpatient infusion Rebecca McClelland beckymc@hotmail.com surg onc Elizabeth Nash eanash_221@hotmail.com onc hem Not ONS Member Mary Rody (illegible) Young Saak Tol breast sur onc * Interested in being in a work group