Countdown to 100,000 OncoLife Survivorship Care Plans: How it all started
Posted February 19th, 2021
Carolyn Vachani, MSN, RN, AOCN
In April of 2007, OncoLink launched the OncoLife Survivorship Care Plan, a tool to create care plans for people who have survived cancer. As that tool reaches the milestone of 100,000 care plans created, OncoLink’s Managing Editor, Carolyn Vachani, looks back on the program’s origins. In 1996, The Institute of Medicine published a report called […]
Survivorship Care Plans – What does the future hold?
Posted June 24th, 2019
Carolyn Vachani, MSN, RN, AOCN
If you are following the proposed Commission on Cancer (CoC) changes to the survivorship standard, you know they have drafted changes that would make providing survivorship care plans (SCP) unnecessary for accreditation, though they still recommend their use. While implementing SCP use in clinics has proven challenging for some centers, others have had great successes. We […]