How reliable is the health information that bombards you in emails and snail mail daily? Is it trustworthy? Do you find yourself reading and have a reactive thought like, “Really? Can this be true?”
The first gathering for the AONN+ Central Texas Oncology Local Navigator Network (LNN) held in October was a great success! Thank you to Andrea Shaw, St. David’s Navigator, who performed a tremendous job coordinating the network!
We are a little less than two weeks away from the annual convergence of navigators! The excitement mounts as the milestones of certification and metric values will be accomplished and released in 2016! In less than a decade, AONN+ has grown and listened to the needs of the membership feedback to achieve these objectives.
We have shared with our AONN+ members how the Oncology Care Model (OCM) is being used to highlight value and cost efficiency. The OCM success is based on collection of data in regard to specific outcomes. This falls in line with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Ensuring Quality Cancer Care report, that recommends quality care to be measured using a core set of metrics.
As October comes in with all the pink fanfare and breast cancer awareness celebration, there is group that shares comments such as: "I just want to hide under the covers and check out.” And "I just don’t want to be confronted with all this pink garbage."
Each year AONN+ presents a survivorship session at the annual meeting and it is a takeaway of ideas and further stimulating conversation on what is best practice.
The Evidence Into Practice (EIP) Committee's mission statement is: "to engage and encourage potential performance improvement, outcomes-based research projects with the assistance of mentoring, and possible collaborations with other organizations” displays the vision to strengthen all navigators and their practice patterns.
If you are someone who enjoys being in the middle of the action and getting some of the latest information on navigation, please check out the Evidence into Practice Committee (EIP).