How Can Administrators Support Patient Navigators?

AONN+ Blog published on May 23, 2018 in Patient Navigation

Over the past few months, my ACCCBuzz blog posts have covered navigation documentation tools, orientation needs, patient education, and the value that navigators bring to a cancer program. Navigators support patient-centered, coordinated, streamlined access to care. But what about the support navigators themselves need in order to provide the best possible care for the patients and their families while juggling a host of other responsibilities? This was a hot topic of discussion during a recent Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+) Navigation Metrics Subcommittee meeting.

 
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