Becoming Chemo Certified

me5115 · Aug 3, 2008

you can take a chemotherapy/biotherapy course with an exam at the end. You get a certificate at completion. Its not the same as the ONC exam.

2bnewrnhong · Aug 6, 2008

hi

where offer chemotherapy/biotherapy course?

what it is requiry?

I am a RN.

Thanks

you can take a chemotherapy/biotherapy course with an exam at the end. You get a certificate at completion. Its not the same as the ONC exam.

me5115 · Aug 7, 2008

You can look up chemotherapy biotherapy courses they are offered at different places throughout the year. Im taking one in sept in harrisburg pa. If you dont work oncology at all, it would be helpful to have some experience. It would hard to follow unless you were familiar with the different drugs.

scma · Aug 9, 2008

The chemotherapy/biotherapy course schedule and calendar is available on the ONS website. Classes are offered throughout the United States. Typically it is a 2 day class. sometimes the classes are 2 days back to back and other times they could be a week or 2 apart. during the class the instructor goes through the entire course book which you receive for attending. this book is a great resource after the class. on the 2nd day you take a 50 question timed test on the material in the book. take notes in your book selectively. pencil, tabs and highlighter. It is an open book test so tabs help you get really familiar with where everthing is in the book. highlight the extremely important stuff most likely for the test. My instructor gave us the "hint hint" signal for the important stuff.

Cert is good for 2 years. DON'T LET IT EXPIRE (like I did) because you have to go through the entire class and test all over again.

hope all this helps.