Pediatric Oncology Nursing

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Nursing in the Childhood Cancer Care System
About the POGO Pediatric Oncology Nursing Committee
Tools and Resources
Educational and Professional Development Events
Community Placement Opportunities

Nursing in the Childhood Cancer Care System

Pediatric oncology nurses perform an integral role in childhood cancer care. As childhood cancer control continues to rapidly evolve toward increasingly complex and personalized treatment and follow-up protocols, the nursing care of children and youth with cancer and survivors is growing more clinically specialized and workload-intensive. Pediatric oncology nurses also function as dedicated members within multidisciplinary teams of health professionals to deliver integrated, family-centred care to children and youth with cancer, their families and survivors.

POGO is committed to engaging in ongoing strategic collaboration with pediatric oncology nurses to plan and optimize childhood cancer care in Ontario. In addition, we partner to co-create tools, resources and professional development opportunities to ensure access to the best care and support for nurses and the children and youth, families and survivors they serve.

About the POGO Pediatric Oncology Nursing Committee

The POGO Pediatric Oncology Nursing Committee (the Committee) is a longstanding advisory body of pediatric oncology nursing professionals working within children’s cancer treatment programs at hospitals throughout Ontario. Together, our Committee members represent a diversity of pediatric oncology nursing subspecialities across the childhood cancer care continuum, from diagnosis and treatment into end-of-life care or survivorship.

By contributing a pediatric oncology nursing perspective, the Committee strategically informs and champions The Childhood Cancer Care Plan: A Roadmap for Ontario 2018-2023, the current long-range plan produced by POGO and our stakeholder partners to strength Ontario’s childhood cancer system.

Related priority actions and deliverables of the Committee include:

Develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based tools and resources to optimize the nursing care of children and youth with cancer, their families and survivors
Support the planning and execution of educational and professional development events to benefit pediatric oncology nurses
Carry out research and knowledge transfer activities in pediatric oncology nursing

View our membership list.
Read our Terms of Reference.

For more information about the Committee or to get involved with our work, please contact Denise Mills, Co-Chair, POGO Pediatric Oncology Nursing Committee and POGO Provincial Clinical Lead, Pediatric Oncology Nursing.

Tools and Resources

POGO Nursing Telepractice Guidance Document

Now more than ever, patients and families are seeking virtual care from their healthcare teams. Derived from a comprehensive literature review of current best telepractice standards in pediatric oncology, the POGO Nursing Telepractice Guidance Document for Pediatric Oncology Nurses supports nurses in delivering safe and effective telepractice care to children and youth with cancer and their families.

The document offers symptom assessment and guidance for constipation, diarrhea, chicken pox exposure, nausea and vomiting, fever, mucositis and acute pain. It also covers telepractice communication principles and techniques, call closure, communication challenges and more!

The POGO Nursing Telepractice Guidance Document is subject to ongoing revisions and updates by the POGO Pediatric Oncology Nursing Committee. If you wish to download and save a local copy of this document, we recommend you regularly check the version posted here (www.pogo.ca/nursing) to ensure you have the most up-to-date guidance.

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SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES

E-learning Training Module:
Learn how the POGO Nursing Telepractice Guidance Document can enhance your nursing care of children with cancer.

Get started with our interactive online training.

POGO Nursing Telepractice Documentation Record (from the Document‘s Appendix):

POGO Satellite Manual

POGO’s Provincial Pediatric Oncology Satellite Program enables the transfer of select aspects of a child’s cancer care to POGO Satellite Clinics in community hospitals closer to home. The POGO Satellite Manual is a guideline resource for the continuing delivery of POGO’s vision of optimal childhood cancer care, including nursing care, by the eight POGO Satellite Clinics.

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Educational and Professional Development Events

For more information about POGO educational events in childhood cancer care, please explore the Education section of our website and sign up for our POGO Education Events mailing list. A list of other conferences and professional development opportunities in pediatric hematology/oncology is also available on our All Education Events & Conferences webpage.

2021

Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON) 45^th Annual Conference & Exhibit
October 27–30, 2021 | Salt Lake City, UT

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Florida Association of Pediatric Tumor Programs (FAPTP), Inc. 44^th Annual Seminar
November 4–5, 2021 | Virtual

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2020

POGO Virtual Education Session: Supporting Children through COVID-19
September 22, 2020 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speakers: Andrea Warnick, Grief Therapist and Lisa Robinson, Grief Counsellor, Andrea Warnick Consulting

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POGO Virtual Education Session: Good Grief! Fostering Healthy Grief in Ourselves and Those We Support
November 17, 2020 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Andrea Warnick, Grief Therapist, Andrea Warnick Consulting