Navigators must have core knowledge of early signs of cancer, screening guidelines, and community and state resources available to support the patient’s population.
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The role of the navigator along the continuum of care is bidimensional in nature, with a patient-centered (empowerment of education and knowledge) and health system (multidisciplinary) orientation to deliver timely, seamless care.
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Patient advocacy is protecting the individual’s rights and autonomy, speaking up for the individual and community needs, educating providers in the healthcare system on an individual's preference of care and needs, and ensuring the individual’s needs and preferences are integrated into the care delivery.
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Distress extends along a continuum, ranging from common normal feelings of vulnerability, sadness, and fear to problems that can be disabling, such as depression, anxiety, panic, social isolation, and existential and spiritual crisis.
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Navigation is integral to facilitating effective interprofessional collaboration and promoting patient satisfaction and care quality, as well as efficiently using healthcare resources to decrease cost across oncology patient populations.
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Navigators can use research and outcomes to develop and validate the programs and services provided.
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The identification of barriers, recognizing how barriers affect patient care, and providing interventions/resources to address barriers related to flow and processes of care are at the heart of operations management.
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Throughout the seasons of survival, it is imperative for healthcare providers to continually offer the components of survivorship care in the forms of prevention through health and wellness promotion, surveillance for recurrence and screening for new cancers, intervention for management of lasting physical and psychosocial effects, and coordination of care for the cancer survivor.
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