Ask Me About Certification!
ONCC offers a full-color, 11"x14" poster to promote the benefits of certification. Display this poster in your unit or at a chapter meeting to introduce your colleagues to the benefits of certification. The poster includes a space to write your name and contact information. Request your copy from ONCC, or download the poster (PDF).

New Brochure to Promote Certification
ONCC has revised its brochure, Making Your Credential Work for You. The revised brochure offers tips on how certified nurses can use their credential to gain recognition, enhance their careers, and develop professionally. This brochure makes an excellent tool for encouraging nurses to attain or renew their certification. Click here to view Making Your Credential Work for You on your computer screen, or contact ONCC for hard copies to share.

Gain Your Employer's Support for Certification
ONCC's new brochure, Employers Supporting Certification: Enhancing Patient Care, Professional Staff & Your Image offers suggestions that employers of all sizes can use to encourage, support, and recognize oncology nursing certification among their staff. View the Employers Supporting Certification (PDF) brochure on your computer screen, or contact ONCC for hard copies to share.

Electronic ONC-PRO Logs Available Online
Create, save, update, and submit ONC-PRO Logs online. Electronic logs are a convenient way to document ONC-PRO points as they are accrued. Click here to create your electronic ONC-PRO Logs.

Nurses Grow Through Certification
Recent studies indicate certified nurses experience personal growth and greater satisfaction as nurses. Learn more about the personal and professional rewards certification can offer oncology nurses by reading the ONCC brochure, Certification Makes a Difference.

Ideas for Promoting Certification
Advocates have been using a variety of creative ideas for promoting the benefits of oncology nursing certification to their nursing colleagues. The following are a few examples of ideas being used by Advocates to encourage certification.

• Distribute the brochure, Certification Makes a Difference and the Oncology Nursing Certification Bulletin to nurses who are not certified. Encourage them to talk with you about the benefits of certification.
• Present a program about the benefits of certification at a chapter meeting or at your institution.
• E-mail a study tip of the week to help motivate candidates who are pursuing certification.
• Organize a review course for potential test candidates.
• Encourage nurses in your community to contact you about certification.
• Place an announcement in your chapter newsletter that reads, "Ask Me About Certification!" and include your name, phone number, and e-mail address.

Do you have ideas for promoting certification? Send us your ideas so we can share them with other Advocates.

Do You Need Materials About Certification?
ONCC has a variety of materials you can use to share information about the benefits of certification. Click here for the Advocate Request Form (PDF)and fax it to ONCC at 412-859-6168, or e-mail ONCC with your request.

Looking for An Advocate?
Click here for a current list of ONCC Advocates by state.