Meet the Advance Care Planning Nursing Working Group, our 2024 award recipient for Teamwork and Collaboration in Action

The ACP Nursing Working Group has received a BC Cancer Excellence Award in the category of Teamwork and Collaboration in Action.

The BC Cancer Excellence Awards provide an opportunity to shine a light on the inspiring people and teams who help ensure that British Columbians receive world-class, patient-centered cancer screening, treatment and support, and benefit from new discoveries that are helping change the face of cancer.

Creating a culturally safe and anti-racist system of health care and research

The Nursing and Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation (NAHRKT) team at BC Cancer created a Cultural Safety Working Group in 2022 in response to learning opportunities they identified in their provincially dispersed department. Two years later, this small group is being recognized for inspiring their colleagues to conduct research and health systems work in a more culturally safe way that meaningfully considers the needs of Indigenous Peoples.

Empowering informed decisions: Supporting head & neck cancer patients with a discussion aid for enteral feeding tubes

​Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) can have elevated risk of experiencing difficulties in swallowing and malnutrition. To prevent this, enteral nutrition through feeding tube (TF) insertion is encouraged when undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Whilst TFs are a proactive measure, the unpredictability of nutrition-impacting symptom development and the absence of consistent guidelines for informed decision-making of TF insertion can result in unnecessary TF procedures and patient distress.

Recapping the CANO 2024 conference

Each year, oncology nurses from across Canada gather at the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology/Association canadienne des infirmières en oncologie (CANO/ACIO) conference to connect, share knowledge and advance their expertise in oncology nursing, patient engagement and interdisciplinary practice.

At the 2024 CANO/ACIO conference in St. John's, Newfoundland, BC Cancer nurses made their mark, hosting innovative presentations and workshops that showcased their leadership in advancing oncology nursing excellence.

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