CANO/ACIO Position Paper: Leadership

Barbara Fitzgerald, Ana Torres, Jeanne Robertson, Brenda Sabo

Abstract


CANO/ACIO POSITION

  • Oncology nurses should possess leadership skills as a core competency.
  • Oncology nursing leadership is essential to promote high-quality, equitable, safe and accessible cancer care and to meet healthcare challenges of the future.  
  • Cancer care organizations, academic institutions, provincial and national professional nursing associations and individual practitioners/mentors/leaders should play a fundamental part in supporting oncology nurses with leadership development.

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