Continuing Nursing Education

Continuing nursing education at Fox Chase Cancer Center is committed to providing educational programs that improve knowledge, competence and professional performance with the goal of improving the quality and safety of patient care and health outcomes.

Incorporating the principles of adult learning, our programs include varied interactive teaching strategies and reflect advances and trends in nursing practice, healthcare delivery, technology and evidence-based practice.

Through an awareness of trends in oncology care, our expert faculty is able to provide our nursing staff and colleagues in the community at large with oncology related educational programs that are current, comprehensive and contain content that is transferrable to their practice settings.

Fox Chase Cancer Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Accredited status refers only to its CNE activities and does not imply ANCC-COA/PSNA approval or endorsement of any commercial products.

Successful completion of educational activities provided by Fox Chase Cancer Center requires

  • Return of the program validation form indicating the specific sessions attended
  • Completion and return of the program evaluation form

For additional information on nursing continuing education classes, please call Diana Kott, continuing education coordinator, (215) 728-3813.


The 2024 Pharmacology Symposium: Clinical Pharmacology for Adult Health

The 2024 Pharmacology Symposium: Clinical Pharmacology for Adult Health: will be held Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 at Fox Chase Cancer Center in the Center Building Auditorium. The goal of this program is to provide physicians, advance practice clinicians and nurses with the most up-to-date pharmacologic treatment options for a variety of diagnoses. Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) contact hours and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ will be awarded for participation in the program. Registration & more detailed information: https://www.eeds.com/live/715289

 

The Ambulatory Care Nursing Certification Course

The Ambulatory Care Nursing Certification Course: will be held Tuesday, May 14th and Tuesday, May 21st in the Leidy Auditorium at Fox Chase Cancer Center. The class will provide registered nurses with the knowledge necessary to begin their preparation for the national Ambulatory Care Nursing Certification offered by the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC). Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) contact hours will be awarded for participation in the program. Registration & more detailed information: https://www.eeds.com/live/366776