Research Agenda of the Oncology Nursing Society: 2019-2022 (Executive Summary)

The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is committed to promoting excellence in oncology nursing and quality cancer care. In keeping with this mission, since 2001, ONS has prepared and disseminated a national Research Agenda. The ONS Research Agenda serves to identify gaps in the knowledge base needed to deliver quality cancer nursing care to patients and families, articulate priorities for research, and delineate critical areas for funding consideration by funding agencies. A multimethod, iterative, consensus-building process that consisted of expert opinion, literature review, surveys, focus groups, town halls, and review of research priorities from other professional organizations and funding agencies was used to identify contemporary research priorities and to update the Research Agenda.