• Awards
• Distinguished merit
• Patient education
• Education excellence
• TITAN award
• Nursing management
• Novice researcher
• Clinical practice
• ECCO-ESMO Congress
• EONS 7 Convention

Novice researcher award

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 grant is sponsored by the European Journal of Oncology Nursing (EJON).

2010 award

The European Oncology Nursing Society is pleased to announce that Mrs. Beate Senn, Institut für Pflegewissenschaft, Universität Basel, Switzerland, will be 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”

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

Previous winners

The recipient of the Novice Research Award 2008 is Mrs.Ergul Aslan for her research project entitled: “Anxiety and Depression levels in Hospitalized Gynaecological Oncology Patients”.

Mrs. Aslan works as an Assistant Professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecologic Nursing at Istanbul University Florence Nightingale School of Nursing. For more information on Mrs. Ergul Aslan and her project, please take a look at the EONS Newsletter Spring issue 2008 at page 8 which you can download at this website.

The novice researcher presented her findings to an interested audience during the 6th EONS Spring Convention in Geneva at the Award Ceremony on Saturday 29th March.

EONS congratulates Mrs. Ergul Aslan for winning the award this year and wishes her success with future nursing research.

The recipient of the Novice Research Award 2006 was Mrs. Hortense Maria Tavares Simões Cotrim for her research project entitled: Colorectal cancer: Impact on patient and family.