Autumn has arrived, and we hope to see you soon! 

Your 2015 Leadership Team hope to see you this fall!Now that the summer is over, the kids are back at school, and the weather is cooling off (or at least it is supposed to), we hope you will get back in the swing with us! We meet every 3rd Thursday in the San Diego area. If you have not attended an SDONS meeting recently, now is the time to get involved again! We have many upcoming activities and events. This newsletter is your ticket to get teed up and enjoy good times with us! 

Get involved with your local San Diego Oncology Nursing Society! This newsletter contains lots of information to keep you "in the know!"

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Come join the fun on Thursday, December 3rd for our December Vendor fair! Now is the time to grab your friends, your clubs, and gear up for some great fun at the Mission Trails Golf Course! We encourage you to bring your oncology nursing colleagues, or anyone who might be interested in joining our chapter for this fun night of raffles, vendors, and networking! This year, we will be highlighting one family from each hospital and blessing them with gift-cards! Please bring gift-cards from Target or Wal-mart in any denomination (but $10 and $15 are the best) as your donation to help these families during one of the hardest times in their lives.(Carolyn Scott, Donna Engelbert and Ellen Carr on their way to the September SDONS dinner meeting)

September SDONS Dinner meeting: Dr. Alan Saven from Scripps capturing the attending of SDONS members.

Our Events Calendar is located on our SDONS virtual community site: http://sandiego.vc.ons.org/Here is where you can view upcoming events and RSVP for dinners. If you have not made it to one this year, you still have 2 left before next year. You can make it!

Next Dinner Meetings:Thursday, October 15th: KEW Group (formerly Agenida) hosted by John Miller. Topic and location to be announced

Thursday, November 19th:  Pfizer Oncology presents Breast Cancer Medications, hosted by Terri Begun. Location to be announced.

Thursday, December 3rd: December Vendor Fair: Mission Trails Golf Course

 

Your 2015 Board Members at the August Leadership Meeting:From Left to Right:

Eva Bariuan, Treasurer (back row)Leah Marquardt, President-Elect (front row)Meloddie Brooks, President (back row)Laura Sauer, Newsletter Editor Kelly Bass, SecretaryKim Rappolt, Student Outreach Susy Bailey, Co-Program Chair

We welcome any and all members to attend any Leadership Meetings! Come give your input and insight! The next one will be October 14th and again on November 18th.

We are looking for volunteers for the 2016 positions of Treasurer, President Elect, Nominating Chair and volunteers to help out with the December Vendor Fair. Volunteers holding a leadership position receive a $500 scholarship to use for advancement of their nursing career. 

SDONS is looking to increase participation in a few ways. One way is to get an SDONS shirt, on sale now for $20 each or 2 for $30. They look great!

We are going to be celebrating Taco Tuesday on Tuesday, October 6th out, bring your friends and family and help us raise funds for our chapter! 50% of proceeds will be generously donated to SDONS. 5650 Balboa Ave. San Diego CA 92111. You can just mention SDONS to the cashier, or bring your flier and you are officially doing your part for your SDONS chapter! Look for the flyer coming soon, and Thank You for your support!

Save the Date! Sunday, October 18th is the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk! If you aren't at Oktoberfest, this is the best place to be!

SDONS is hosting a team for the November 6th Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk. Sign up to walk or donate at http://pages.lightthenight.org/sd/Sandiego15/sandiegooncologynursingsocietyEvery walker who raises $100 or more will become a Champion for Cures! 

We want you!ONS is offering rewards for the chapters who recruit the most members. We would love to win one of those rewards, and we would love to have more people like you! Currently we have 468 members, but would you believe only 22 came to our last dinner meeting? We can do

better than that! If you have not been to a dinner meeting recently, now is the time to get involved again. Bring your co-workers! Relax and unwind with your

fellow oncology nurses!Bonus: Nursing Students receive free membership for a year, so pass it on to any nursing student you know!(above from Left to Right: Meloddie Brooks, Ronnah Montemayor, Leah Marquardt and Dawn Huckabone)

The Free Masons are still offering scholarship money for those who obtain their OCN. This is the time, if you have been concidering it! Here's what Eva Bariuan writes about why she has her OCN, and loves being an SDONS member:"Renewing your ONS membership is important. Being Oncology Board Certified is a must to be a member of a professional oncology organization. ONS is an excellent organization that brings onoclogy nurses and other helathcare

professionals together to network, learn, and grow. The local chapter meetings are awesome for oncology nurses in San Diego to network and learn about the latest trend in oncology nursing. I highly suggest for any oncology nurses to join ONS nationally, and locally."Something we learned about at the last ONS dinner meeting was "NORD: National Organization of Rare Diseases." Look it up and you will be surprised!

Cindy Stephens and Emily Purdy at the May 2015 SDONS dinner meeting 

Reminders:We love to have our members attend our meetings, and we know you have busy lives. When you RSVP, we want you to attend. Understanding that things do come up, if you have RSVP'd and cannot attend, please be courteous and give 24 hour cancellation notice when possible. It's as easy as sending an e-mail to sd_ons@yahoo.com that you cannot attend. If you forget to cancel once, you will receive a notice, and be listed as a "no-show." The second time this happens, you will be listed as a "no-show" again, and will be put on the wait-list for the following dinner meeting you attend. When you RSVP, please understand that you can only RSVP for yourself. You may include a guest (non-SDONS member) in your RSVP, but SDONS members need to RSVP for themselves. Also, when you come to the meeting, please be on time. We understand traffic happens, and if you are going to be a few minutes late, please enter quietly, making as little distraction as possible. We have excellent speakers, and we want to hear every word they have to say! 

 Kim Rappolt (winner of the 50:50 raffle drawing), Meloddie Brooks and Theresa Diaz at the May Dinner Meeting.Get involved online! SDONS is on Facebook, Linked In, and Twitter! "Like" us, and get the latest from SDONS!

Some Exciting News!National ONS has announced their website will become much more user friendly over the next few months! Yaaaaaaay! In 2016 they will be switching vendores, and there will be a new data base which will allow members to directly access members. Questions? Ask a member of the leadership team for the scoop, or attend the next leadership meeting! What can we expect?-Single sign on will be implemented in October. No more logging in multiple times!

-Member data will be in real time. No more waiting months when you update your address, name, email, or chapter!-Records of members who have let their membership lap.-Chapter funds distributed monthly instead of weekly.-An email preference page, so you can start getting the newsletter, but maybe not some other stuff.

We are also considering an SDONS dinner cruise in March, significant others welcome. What do you think? Great idea? We want your feedback! 

Ellen Carr, fantastic speaker Scott Schuford and Laura Hamilton at the May 2015 dinner meeting.Winners of a bottle of wine: Sharon O'Mary, Laura Sauer, and Sandi Weyerhaeuser!

Dawn Huckabone and Amy Nance-Thompson at the May Dinner meeting.

Amy Nance-Thompson attended the National Chapter Leadership Workshop in Pittsburgh, July 31st to August 2nd. Become a member of our leadership team, and maybe you can go next year!Here's what she had to report:One of the most interesting topics was that of our nursing workforce. 70% of our ONS members are set to retire in the next 6 years, which would bring membership to dangerously low numbers. At this moment, 62% of non-profit organizations are over the age of 50. ONS members can be grouped as follows:The "Traditionalist" was born between 1915 and 1945. These nurses were influenced by the newness of women working, of WW2, and the radio was their primary source of news. They can be described as hardworking and sacrificing. 

The "Boomer" was born between 1946 and 1964. These nurses were influenced by Vietnam, JFK assassination, Civil Rights, and the financial crisis. The TV was their primary source of news, and they can be described as the "sandwich generation," with long tenured jobs, but they cannot retire because the cannot financially afford to oftentimes. Typically, boomers stay in each job for approximately 14 years.The "Gen-X" was born between 1965 and 1980, and were also known as the "latch-key kids" as they were the first solid generation with both parents in the work-force full time. They value Independence, work-life balance, and were influenced by the Challenger explosion, lay-offs and the recession, and can be cynical.Gen-Xers typically stay in a job for 3 years.The "Millennial" was born between 1981 and 2000, and were influenced by 9-11, and had "helicopter parents" who hovered and focused on every aspect of their lives. Their entire lives have been photographed and "posted" or "shared" as technology grew as their primary source of information. They are a mission-driven generation with high expectations, rapid career development, and tend to question everything. 60% are unemployed, or underemployed. Millennial tend to stay in their job for 18 months or less before looking for something more appealing.So, what can we do about our shrinking membership? Suggestions include adding personal value to the member with personal member invitations, increased on line info, on-demand and entertaining education, mobile friendly access to info, and "micro" volunteer opportunities.What do  you think? Do you fit into one of these categories? 

Above, Jane Underwood having a blast at the May SDONS dinner! Save the Date for next year's congress! San Antonio, here we come!

On behalf of the Oncology Nursing Society Board of Directors, I am pleased to inform you and your members that the charter for the San Diego Chapter has been renewed for 2015. The ONS Board greatly appreciates your continued support of and affiliation with ONS.Board is fully aware from our own chapter activities, achieving and maintaining the ONS chapter charter represents extraordinary commitment and effort on the part of the chapter's leaders and its general members. The ONS Board hopes your chapter continues to thrive and that your members experience the rewards that accompany meaningful

collaboration at the local level. ONS chapters are of vital importance in helping to achieve the goals and mission of the Society. The entire ONS Board looks forward to working with you to further the future of cancer care. Warmly, Hayley Baselj

Renewing your ONS membership is important. Being an Oncology Board Certified, it is a must to be a member of a professional oncology

organization. ONS is an excellent organization that brings oncology nurses and other healthcare professionals together to network, learn, and grow. The local chapter meetings are awesome for oncology nurses in San Diego to network and learn about the latest trend in oncology nursing. I highly suggest for any oncology nurses to join ONS nationally and locally. 

OCN CERTIFICATION!!!The Free Masons are still offering to pay for your 1st time OCN certification. Now is the time if you have been thinking about it! Check out their "By Your Side" program: https://www.freemason.org/doc/By%20Your%20Side%20Program%20Application.pdf?id=20139   

October 15, 2015 - Final deadline for 2015 ONC-PRO Renewal applications.

Also, congratulations to the winners of 2015 ONCC chapter awards:

New York City – highest number of certified nurses

Greater Mohawk Valley – highest percentage of certified nurses

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&'()% 1 Please be sure to post this edition at work, and check with your co-workers. If they didn't get it, just shoot us an email, and we will get them added. Not a member anymore? Let's get you signed up again! We hope to see you soon!

SDONS is the local chapter of the Oncology Nursing Society. It is committed to promoting quality cancer care through nursing research and education and community service. The SDONS meetings, in general, are scheduled every 3rd Thursday of the month. Annually, SDONS provides approximately $5,000 in

educational scholarships and awards to local oncology nurses.

For more information about SDONS, please contact sd_ons@yahoo.com.

And to submit articles, announcements or photographs for the SDONS e-newsletter,contact e-Newsletter Editor Laura Sauer at sd_ons@yahoo.com.

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