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Everyone's a winner at the ONS 32nd Annual Congress.


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 32nd Annual Congress goes. When you leave Congress, you will take home valuable new knowledge and information that will enhance your nursing practice and improve patient care.

Worth approximately 23 contact hours, Congress is the #1 conference for cancer nurses. The 2007 Congress will be held at the spectacular Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino is a 39-story hotel casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. It is owned by MGM Mirage. The top five floors (floors 35-39) of the main hotel building are used by the Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas. . By day, you will learn about hot topics in cancer care, including chemotherapy, symptom management, radiation, patient education, disease management, and more. At night, you can hit the casinos, restaurants, and shops that only Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  can offer.

You can select the Congress sessions that interest you the most. All sessions are grouped by topic, so planning your schedule is a cinch cinch

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. This year's topic tracks include

* Types of cancer and treatment

* Research in practice

* Practical aspects of clinical practice

* Safe practice

* Administration

* Leadership

* Nursing care and self-growth

* Survivorship survivorship n. the right to receive full title or ownership due to having survived another person. Survivorship is particularly applied to persons owning real property or other assets, such as bank accounts or stocks, in "joint tenancy.  

Sessions also are categorized by level of content to help you choose the ones that are right for you.

* Introductory sessions require little or no knowledge of the topic.

* Intermediate sessions provide in-depth content to experienced participants who have some working knowledge related to the topic.

* Advanced sessions provide integration of data synthesis data synthesis Meta-analysis, see there  and require specialized prior knowledge and critical thinking.

Congress also gives you the opportunity to network and share ideas with more than 6,200 of your oncology peers. In addition, you will have a chance to meet with colleagues who practice in your subspecialty subspecialty,
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 at special interest group meetings.

Use the form on page 18 to register for Congress today. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!
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