Starting a Navigation Program

Delivering the Best Care to Patients

Katherine Sharpe, MTS
Katherine Sharpe, SVP ACS, discusses how the navigation program should work to find the best resources for patients.

Clarity in Defining Roles in a Navigation Program

Katherine Sharpe, MTS
Determining the goals and the tasks of individuals within the navigation team is essential in creating a successful program, explains Katherine Sharpe, SVP, ACS.

What Does an Ideal Navigation Program Look Like?

Katherine Sharpe, MTS
Katherine Sharpe, SVP ACS explains how to evaluate what makes an ideal navigation program.

Establishing an Effective Navigation Program

Katherine Sharpe, MTS
Katherine Sharpe, SVP ACS, discusses how to establish and sustain a navigator program that is in the best interests of the patient and benefits the care system.

Creating A Wider Web

Crystal Dugger, RN, BSN, MBA
How to get the support you need. Crystal Dugger recommends ways to cultivate relationships with stakeholders that will result in better outcomes.

Know Your Worth

Crystal Dugger, RN, BSN, MBA
Crystal Dugger stresses the necessity of standardizing and quantifying the value of a navigation program to the institution.

Traits of a Sustainable Navigation Program

Crystal Dugger, RN, BSN, MBA
What does it take to sustain a navigation program for years to come? Crystal Dugger lists the most important ones for long-term sustainability.

Launching a Navigation Program: Pitfalls and Tips

Elaine Sein, BSN, RN
Elaine Sein addresses some of the challenges in developing a navigation program and offers some helpful tips on how to overcome these difficulties.

Trying To Start a Navigation Program?

Danelle Johnston, MSN, RN, HON-ONN, OCN
Danelle Johston provides some excellent, practical advice to people tasked with starting a navigation program.

Navigation Needs To Fill A Gap

Jennifer R. Klemp, PhD, MPH, MA
Jennifer Klemp identifies the steps in creating a navigation process. Start with the basics and identify the gaps that need to be filled.