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Excellence in patient education award 2011

The Excellence in Patient Education (EPE) Award was launched by EONS in 2005 with the aim of honouring individual nurses or organisations that have consistently excelled at enlightening cancer patients about their disease and its treatments. EONS believes that this Award will encourage creative and cutting-edge approaches to the development of patient education materials.

The Award is open to individual nurses or organisations that have developed original and high quality patient education materials targeted at cancer patients. The EPE Award nominations are judged on their ability to develop creative and innovative materials that clearly communicate relevant and accurate information to patients and their families.

Individual nurses or organisations that have developed innovative and high quality educational materials targeted at cancer patients are eligible for the Award.

Excellence in Patient Education Award 2011

The European Oncology Nursing Society is pleased to announce that Sue Morgan, on behalf of the Steering Group and Teenage Cancer Trust, UK, should be the winner of the Excellence in Patient Education Award 2011 with their project:

“Find your sense of tumour”, An international Annual Conference for young people with cancer.

EONS congratulates Sue for winning the award and wishes her success with future projects.

The EPE Award winning team received their Award from EONS President Sultan Kav at the EONS Opening Award session on Saturday 24 September 2011 during the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, Stockholm, Sweden.

Previous winners

2010	Sara Gardyn, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel. “Pediatric Radiotherapy Educational Booklets”.
2009	Corien Eeltink, Department of Haematology of the VU medical centre Amsterdam and Daniela Hahn, the Dutch Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis, the Netherlands. Booklet: A question and answer approach about cancer and sexuality.
2008	Catherine Oakley and Jo Johnson, St. George's Hospital, London, UK. ‘Patient Oral Chemotherapy Diary’ - the diary was developed to provide a robust generic method of supporting cancer patients and their carers, to manage oral chemotherapy treatments.
2007	Niek Golsteijn, Vincent Keijsers and Sylvia Verhagen of V&VN Oncology, the Netherlands. 'Verpleegkundigen en Verzorgenden Nederland - Oncologie' (‘SignGuide Oncology’ a novel way of presenting patient information).
2006	Arno Mank and the staff of the Department of Haematology/Oncology at the Academic Medical Centre, the Netherlands. CD-ROM package ‘The Patient’s Journey: From chemotherapy to stem-cell transplantation’.
2005	Oncology Unit at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland. ‘Precious Times: a Handbook on Palliative Care for Parents and Children with Cancer’.