Navigation & Survivorship News

Members Memo: Upstate on South Carolina LNN

By Sharon S. Gentry, MSN, RN, HON-ONN-CG, AOCN, CBCN
Congratulations to Jo Weathers and her team in South Carolina for continuing to have a successful navigation support outreach in their area! They held 8 chapter local navigator network (LNN) meetings in 2016 and have grown from an initial gathering of 8 attendees to as many as 26 this year.
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Insights into Navigation: Orchestrating a Good Death for Your Metastatic Cancer Patient

By Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
This is the first in an 8 part-series about an important topic: helping terminal patients with their end of life. Although we have discussed these elements before, it is worthy of your time to take a look at each of these elements and discuss how nurse navigators can support their patients as they approach end of life.
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Insights into Navigation: Dealing with Financial Issues After a Loved One Is Gone

By Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
After a cancer patient dies, we commonly are no longer in touch with the family beyond that of offering our condolences. Several months later, however, is when the true financial picture of what the loved one’s end-of-life expenses really were.
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Plus Pointers: Setting Learning and Improvement Goals

By Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG

As a navigator, it’s important to set learning and improvement goals, and identify and perform learning activities that address one’s gaps in knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities.

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Members Memo: Tumor Board Survey

By Sharon S. Gentry, MSN, RN, HON-ONN-CG, AOCN, CBCN

Thank you for the tremendous response to the call for how navigators interact around tumor boards. The information progressed from those who are developing their role around this function to the very experienced member.

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Insights into Navigation: Coaching Cancer Survivors in Choosing Insurance Options

By Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
In the latter part of each year, employees are asked to make decisions about the health insurance benefits they wish to select for the coming calendar year. Rarely does someone say, “Gee, I am planning to get cancer this year so I want to be sure to choose carefully which health plan benefit I want.”
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Members Memo: Educating Patients About Skin Cancer

By Sharon S. Gentry, MSN, RN, HON-ONN-CG, AOCN, CBCN
The next several months are the peak time of year when people will be exposed to the sun. As such, navigators can help get the word out about prevention efforts against this potentially deadly form of skin cancer.
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Plus Pointers: Advocate for Quality Patient Care, Optimal Patient Systems

By Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
Navigators have a critical role in highlighting system bottlenecks and health care inefficiencies. At the GW Cancer Center, largely due to patient navigators speaking up, a policy advocacy effort was prioritized to improve access to chemotherapy for Medicaid patients.
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Insights into Navigation: Too Many Patients and Not Enough Time

By Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG
We’ve all been there. The number of patients you are expected to navigate keeps increasing without more resources being provided to help you do it well. Simply telling your supervisor that you can’t keep up won’t cut it; nor will saying you need more help. Instead, measure what you are doing by developing an acuity scale for the patient populations you navigate.
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Members Memo: Thoracic Nurse Navigation Certification Task Force

By Sharon S. Gentry, MSN, RN, HON-ONN-CG, AOCN, CBCN
A special thank you to the thoracic nurse navigators who came forward to create the thoracic certification examination. It is a sign of professional commitment and growth to volunteer for a task that will help one review their profession as well as learn something new such as test question development.
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