The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC) has named Diane Otte, MS, RN, OCN® as the 2025 Pearl Moore Certification Champion Award recipient. Otte is with the Mayo Clinic Health System – LaCrosse in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.    

The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC®) has named Ashley Huneke, BSN, OCN®, BMTCN®, as the 2025 Blood and Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse of the Year. Huneke is a Registered Nurse at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. 

The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC®) has named Marianne Kiernan, BSN, RN, CN-BN, CBCN® as the 2025 Certified Breast Care Nurse of the Year. Kiernan is Assistant Manager of Patient Care, Fortunato Breast Center at Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, New York. 

The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC®) has named Lorinda Coombs, PhD, MSN, FNP-BC, AOCNP® as the 2025 Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner (AOCNP®) of the Year. Coombs is Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, NC.  

The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC®) has named Bethany Cunningham, BSN, OCN®, ONN-CG, as the 2025 Oncology Certified Nurse of the Year. Cunningham is a Nurse Navigator at Brown University Health Cancer Institute at Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. 

If you are applying for an ONCC certification test or renewal in 2025, you will soon need to provide additional information during the application process. 

Beginning in late January 2025, you will need to provide the last four digits of your social security number. For privacy purposes, this information will not be stored in ONCC systems and will need to be entered each time you apply for certification.