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Lifetime achievement award

Purpose

This award is made from the Executive Board and marks an outstanding personal and professional contribution made by an individual to the field of Oncology Nursing. The award honours individuals who, during their working lifetime, acted an as inspirational leader and whose achievements contributed to EONS or to oncology nursing.

Awarding organisation:

Executive Board of the European Oncology Nursing Society

Selection Criteria:

• Those selected must have made a significant contribution to cancer nursing during her/his professional career.
• Their achievements are clearly evidenced in terms of demonstrable innovation and success in practice, leadership, research or education (or a combination of all of these domains).
• They act as a role model for young oncology nurses and for colleagues.

Award Description

A presentation plaque plus complementary registration, accommodation and travel to the EONS congress held in the year of the award.

In 2012, this will be the EONS-8 Spring Convention, taking place in Geneva from 26-27 April 2012.

Lifetime Achievement Award 2012

The Board unanimously agreed that Professor Nurgün Platin, Professor of Nursing at the Hacettepe University School of Nursing, Ankara, Turkey, should receive the Lifetime Achievement Award 2012. The award is given for her role as a leader and pioneer in oncology nursing in Turkey and for her contribution and devotion to the development of cancer nursing practice in her own country and internationally. She will receive the Award at the EONS General meeting on Friday 27 April, during the EONS-8 Spring Convention, Geneva, Switzerland.

Lifetime Achievement Award 2011

Professor Yvonne Wengström, Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 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.