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What are the Elements That Make up a “Good Death” Experience for a Cancer Patient?
Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
Articles & White Papers published on June 11, 2014 in End-of-Life
We never want to think about the reality that our patients dealing with advanced cancers are going to eventually die of their disease or from the toxicities of its treatment. But they will. Commonly today there is avoidance on the part of treating physicians, generally medical oncologists, to embark on a discussion about end of life planning.
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Job Titles—No Wonder People Don’t Know What We Do
Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
Articles & White Papers published on May 8, 2014 in Role of the Navigator
I recently attended a meeting where leaders from various organizations representing a variety of aspects of navigation were present. One of the speakers showed an advertisement from a newspaper about a well-known nationally recognized comprehensive cancer center. The advertisement was about their navigation program.
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Mission and Goals of Navigation at Your Institution
Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
Articles & White Papers published on May 8, 2014 in Role of the Navigator
Although we know that there are definitions of “patient navigation” that have become standardized, there continues to be the (attempted) implementation of navigation at some institutions that lack clarity and direction. When there isn’t a mission and clear goals for the navigation process, things rarely go as they should.
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Metrics Again
Sharon S. Gentry, MSN, RN, HON-ONN-CG, AOCN, CBCN
Articles & White Papers published on April 9, 2014 in Standardized Metrics
A recurring discussion among the attendees at the 2013 Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+) Conference was “What are different navigators measuring?” This appears to be a daunting task for nurse navigators, and I would encourage you to review previous expert commentaries on the AONN+ website.
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Selecting Cancer Survivors to Become Volunteers at Your Cancer Center
Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
Articles & White Papers published on February 13, 2014
At Johns Hopkins, we have had a breast cancer survivor volunteer team for 16 years. At my request, the first 5 volunteers—surgeons and medical oncologists—were selected by our oncologists. I figured that if they picked them, they couldn’t fuss if that specific person did not work out well in a volunteer role, assuming they wanted to volunteer at all.
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Knowing Your Patient’s Life Goals
Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
Articles & White Papers published on January 30, 2014 in Patient Advocacy/Empowerment
When someone has just heard in the last day or so that they have cancer, their life is in a tailspin. So when I ask a patient, “Before you heard that you had cancer, what were your life goals?” commonly the response is, “It doesn’t matter what they were. Just please save my life.” But it does matter, because we should be striving to incorporate those life goals into the patient’s treatment planning process.
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What Is the Cost of Hope?
Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
Articles & White Papers published on January 30, 2014 in Value-Based Care
I am currently writing my 14th book. This one is a textbook for oncologists with the goal (hope!) that we can collectively improve communication with patients with metastatic cancer. All too often the doctor continues to offer another treatment because that is what they have been taught in medical school—“treat the patient.”
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The Risk of Caring
Sharon S. Gentry, MSN, RN, HON-ONN-CG, AOCN, CBCN
Articles & White Papers published on January 14, 2014 in Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
As the New Year starts off, many people resolve to improve their life in one fashion or another. Usually the goal is diet-related to eat healthy and lose weight or to decrease a type of intake, such as caffeine or fat. We know that gyms are busy in January and attendance dwindles in February. The New Year is a time to set improvement plans.
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What Native Americans Can Teach the Cancer Community
Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
Articles & White Papers published on January 14, 2014 in Health Disparities, Community Outreach and Prevention
In 2013, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a workshop summary, Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities. I was struck by a number of things that are both timely and applicable to the unique challenges faced by the cancer community in America and to patient navigators in particular.
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The Role of Oncology Nurse Navigators in Supporting Patients with Advanced Metastatic Cancer
Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
Articles & White Papers published on December 11, 2013 in Role of the Navigator
Although the majority of patients diagnosed with cancer survive their disease and its treatment, there are certainly those who do not. Some specific types of cancer carry a high rate of mortality, such as pancreatic cancer. Oncology nurse navigators are more commonly seen as a member of a multidisciplinary team among those who care for patients who survive.
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