Navigation & Survivorship News
As summer zips by and fall begins, you will be thinking even more about the November 2016 AONN+ conference and the opportunity to become certified as an oncology nurse navigator or as a patient navigator! So start getting ready!
Patient navigators should continuously evaluate their professional role and any perceived or actual conflicts of interest with their personal life.
Since its inception, special attention and resources have been directed to providing navigation for underserved patients.
Congratulations to the new chapter leaders for the North Texas Local Navigator Network! JaLisa Boyd, RN, BSN, MS, and Molly Sutton, MS, RN, OCN, Jane Reeves, RN, BS, CBCN, have mentored and turned this strong Local Navigator Network (LNN) over to capable navigators!
I serve on the accreditation committee, and I am looking forward to working with the committee members in creating additional standards that are tied specifically to navigation and survivorship.
It was refreshing and “good for the soul” to see all the networking in New Orleans at theAONN+East Coast Regional meeting (ECRM).
Patient navigators should have a list of resources at their fingertips in order to assist patients with a variety of different challenges. They should also know which resources are credible and can be most helpful to particular patients.
This is the second in a three part series where Lillie will discuss her insights from being a participant member of the ongoing Commission on Cancer (CoC) meetings.
Patients often lean on their navigators to ask questions, seek information, and get the “bottom line” in terms of their treatment and care. Trust is an integral part of this relationship and navigators simply cannot competently do their job without a deep level of trust with the patient.
Members of AONN+ have had the privilege of participating on The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) new education initiative, Achieving Excellence in Patient-Centered Care.
