Navigation & Survivorship News

Navigators should encourage active communication between patients, families, and healthcare providers to optimize patient outcomes.
You can help to reduce cancer health disparities among people who are Latino. You can accomplish this by working with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, diversity, ethical integrity, and trust.
This is the seventh installment of my series on providing terminal patients with important elements so that they can experience a good death. For this installment, I want to discuss dying with dignity.
Great job by the Upstate NY LNN as they are increasing their navigator and social worker membership after each gathering!
This is the sixth installment of my series on providing terminal patients with important elements so that they can experience a good death. For this installment, I want to discuss alleviating pain at the end of life.
Nurse navigator Molly Sutton leads over 50 navigators in the North Texas LNN. This LNN meets quarterly to increase knowledge and network.
Transgender people persistently experience discrimination and inequality in all aspects of their life, including healthcare.
This is the fifth installment of my series on providing terminal patients with important elements so that they can experience a good death. For this installment, I want to discuss the element of fondness.
I want to welcome Carolyn Allsen RN, BSN, OCN, ONN-CG as the new Houston Area LNN president who presides over an active group of navigation professionals. This group meets monthly, and they have a group of 35 members that share community resources and present topics on local pearls of wisdom.
In order to optimize access to care across the cancer continuum including the most vulnerable patients, it's important to organize and prioritize your resources. One particular community is the LGBT community.