ONCC: 25 Years of Making a Difference!

2011 is a special year for ONCC – the 25^th anniversary of oncology nursing certification testing. We’ll be celebrating all year with special events and activities, and we’d like you to participate. Here’s how.

Send Us Your Photos! We’re looking for the Faces of Certification for a slideshow. Send us a photo of certified nurses – either individuals or groups – candid or posed. Please identify the nurses in the photos and where you’re from.  Email them to ONCC at oncc@oncc.org or send them to ONCC at 125 Enterprise Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15275. For privacy reasons, please don’t submit photos that include patients.

Take the ONCC Trivia Challenge! Find out how much you know about ONCC and certification in oncology nursing. Test yourself with these 25 questions and answers.

Read the History of ONCC. Although certification testing has been available since April 1986, the movement to make certification in oncology nursing a reality started well before then. Read the history of ONCCand take a look at the list of ONCC Presidents who were leading the organization at the time.

Find out who is still certified.  1,384 nurses passed the first OCN^® test, and 160 have been continuously certified since then. Who are they?

Look how we’ve grown! Get a quick visual look at the growth in the number of certified nurses since that first test in 1986.

Mark the milestones. This timeline offers a look at various milestones in oncology nursing certification.

And the Winner is . . . . ONCC presented its first certified nurse of the year award in 1994, the first chapter awards in 1997, and the first employer award in 1999. Do you know anyone on the list of winners?

Share it! Consider these ideas for sharing information about certification with the nurses you know.