Novice researcher award

Novice researcher award 2009

Every two years, EONS recognizes the effort and patience involved in conducting sound nursing research by awarding enthusiastic young researchers grant money to enable them to carry out their research project. This award is sponsored by the European Journal of Oncology Nursing (EJON).

2010 award

The European Oncology Nursing Society is pleased to announce that Beate Senn, Institut für Pflegewissenschaft, Universität Basel, Switzerland, is the recipient of the EONS Novice Research Award 2010 with her project “Creating and validating a patient-reported outcome instrument to assess symptom experience related to surgical wounds in women with vulvar neoplasms - A mixed methods study”

Beate presented a plenary lecture outlining her work on Friday 16 April from 13.10 to 13.25 during the 7th EONS Spring Convention which took place in The Hague, 15-16 April 2010, The Netherlands. EONS congratulates Beate for winning the award and wishes her success with future nursing research.

Previous winners

2008Ergul Aslan, Istanbul University, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Turkey.
“Anxiety and Depression levels in Hospitalized Gynaecological Oncology Patients”
2006Hortense Maria Tavares Simões Cotrim, Escola Superior de Saude Egas Moniz, Monte de Caparica, Portugal.
“Colorectal cancer: Impact on patient and family”

This award was supported by a grant provided by EJON.

Further information

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Tel: +32 (0)2 779 9923
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eons.secretariat@cancernurse.eu