Navigation & Survivorship News
As the end of one calendar year closes and a new one opens, it is common for people to make New Year’s resolutions. The majority focus on losing weight, eating a healthier diet, and exercise.
As navigators, we are called to be financial stewards for our patients. A personal experience of an elderly family member who was being navigated through a cancer diagnosis this year was an example of this valuable role of navigation.
Oncology care is a team effort. Physicians, nurses, social workers, patient navigators, and a host of other team members work together to ensure the best possible patient care.
If you don’t track your performance in measurable ways, you are risking your job! Yes, that is correct.
We are proud of Amy E. Rettig, MSN, MALM, RN, ACNS-BC, PMHNP-BC, CBCN, Emergency Services-Clinical Nurse Specialist, who has been named to the SelfMade Health Network Leadership Council.
Individuals may face a number of impediments to receiving optimal cancer care, including a lack of clear understanding of all treatment options, transportation, social support, insurance/financial concerns, and problems communicating with healthcare providers.
To operate more efficiently, patient navigators should consider adopting the following habits to improve organizational skills.
As more and more people are being diagnosed with cancer, and fewer and fewer medical students/navigators are choosing to go into the field of oncology, burnout is a risk for all of us.
Our AONN+ chapter formed as a few nurse navigators were getting together occasionally after work to share ideas and support each other. This grew into a plan to launch a state chapter of AONN+ after learning how simple it would be to start.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for Empliciti (elotuzumab) in combination with two other therapies to treat people with multiple myeloma who have received one to three prior medications.
