From left: JILL REESE, M.S., APRN, AGCNS-BC, OCN, and SUSIE MALONEY, M.S., APRN, AOCN, AOCNS
Reflecting upon my relationship with Jill over the previous 25 years, I’m in awe of all she has completed. I had moved from being an inpatient scientific nurse specialist to the outpatient world. At about the identical time, Jill Reese, M.S., APRN, AGCNS-BC, OCN, had moved from a top-tier outpatient heart to our small native oncology workplace, and I used to be impressed together with her information.
As Jill and I grew to become extra concerned in our native Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) chapter, we continued to share greatest practices and labored diligently to make the 40-year-old chapter the wonderful supply of data and networking it’s at present. For instance, Jill attends the annual ONS Congress and meets with chapter leaders from everywhere in the nation. She at all times brings again recent concepts on methods to make our chapter higher.
JILL REESE, M.S., APRN, AGCNS-BC, OCN
When Jill determined to return to high school to turn into a sophisticated practitioner, she sought my counsel. Going again to high school after a few years is rarely simple, however Jill did so although she was elevating three younger youngsters. Her ardour for delivering the very best degree of oncology care to sufferers is top-notch.
Jill works in a rural most cancers heart the place she is the one superior practitioner and there is just one medical oncologist. The middle’s infusion nurses are new to oncology. Jill is delicate to the nurse’s feelings and steps in each time wanted. Jill is a useful resource for them and an enormous assist system. She has walked of their sneakers and understands how difficult the position will be. Being a mentor to the infusion nurses and seeing them develop is magical. If Jill is talking with a affected person within the remedy room concerning symptom administration, she at all times asks the affected person’s infusion nurse to return alongside, so not solely do they hear the plan however in addition they observe and listen to the interactions with the affected person and household. From form phrases to holding a affected person’s hand to sitting on a stool on the affected person’s eye degree and listening to their wants and considerations, these small gestures make a distinction to sufferers.
Though they’re at a small rural most cancers heart, sufferers deserve the standard most cancers care that they’d obtain in an educational setting. For practitioners, staying updated on present remedies and methods to handle negative effects is crucial. Attending education schemes and conferences, together with taking time to analysis on our personal, is vital. After attending nationwide conferences, Jill at all times shares what she has realized.
Jill led our native ONS chapter as president for a number of years and has served on the board for over a decade. When the president-elect had household points that precluded her from filling the position as president, Jill provided to serve one other yr, regardless of having a busy private {and professional} life. She additionally created new companies for her sufferers in a small neighborhood observe resembling smoking cessation and survivorship packages.
Jill shares her experience by publications, although she receives no credit score. She does it to provide again to the occupation. After I wanted extra symptom administration chapters written for a e-book that I used to be modifying, Jill stepped in. I notice that there are quite a few completed oncology nurses who’ve achieved nice issues. Nonetheless, the heroes who collaborate with sufferers and households day in and day trip aren’t at all times acknowledged for the distinction they make in sufferers’ lives. Jill has completed most of the issues that others have completed, together with searching for superior levels and certification, publishing, talking and serving on boards.
Jill stands out as a result of she does these items outdoors of her on a regular basis work life and is really on the chairside every single day. Jill has the power to attach with folks from all walks of life. Whether or not it is among the many collaborating physicians she works with, sufferers and members of the family, fellow ONS chapter members or nurses searching for recommendation about furthering their schooling, Jill listens and shares her experience and expertise.
There are numerous the reason why Jill is deserving of this award. She makes a constructive impression on so many individuals’s lives by her dedication to affected person care, modern packages and volunteer actions inside ONS on an area, regional, and nationwide degree. However most of all, she touches so many lives, one individual at a time.
