Best Practices

How Oncology Team Members May React to Difficult Conversations

When difficult conversations arise in the workplace, oncology colleagues may experience different reactions.

Creating Unity on a Cancer Care Team

Oncology navigators can serve as the point person to unite their cancer care teams and provide better patient care.

Developing Skills to Hold Difficult Conversations

Ryan Soisson, MA Phil, MA HR, shares how oncology navigators can use their empathy to address conflict among oncology colleagues.

Barriers to Open Communication on Care Teams

Oncology navigators may face barriers when engaging in difficult conversations about workplace conflict among their colleagues.

Benefits of Addressing Workplace Conflict in Oncology Care

Addressing workplace conflict allows oncology navigators and multidisciplinary care teams to provide better care for their patients.

Common Issues of Multidisciplinary Cancer Care Teams

Cancer care teams may have trouble integrating their individual roles into a team approach. Ryan Soisson, MA Phil, MA HR, addresses these common barriers.

A Team Approach to Care

To provide quality care, a good team dynamic is essential among the multidisciplinary cancer care team.

2020 CoC Standards Mean Changes for Nurse and Patient Navigators

William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma, describes the changes in the CoC standards that will impact patient navigators, including psycho/social care, rehabilitation, prehabilitation, barriers to care, nutrition services, and survivorship.

Reasons for CoC Revisions

William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma, explains the periodic necessity for new standards of care—especially as changes in treatments and survivorship emerge.

Changes to CoC That Will Affect Oncology Navigators

Oncology navigators will be integral to the process of treating patients with cancer as a result of the new CoC standards, explains William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma.