CoC Standards

2020 CoC Standards Mean Changes for Nurse and Patient Navigators

William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma, describes the changes in the CoC standards that will impact patient navigators, including psycho/social care, rehabilitation, prehabilitation, barriers to care, nutrition services, and survivorship.

Reasons for CoC Revisions

William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma, explains the periodic necessity for new standards of care—especially as changes in treatments and survivorship emerge.

Changes to CoC That Will Affect Oncology Navigators

Oncology navigators will be integral to the process of treating patients with cancer as a result of the new CoC standards, explains William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma.

A New World for Administrators

William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma, explains that changes that are important to the future are being undertaken with new CoC standards.

What Can Navigators Expect with the New Standards?

With a focus on the new standards for survivorship care plans, William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma, describes how the navigator will participate in the overall survivorship care plan for patients in the future.

What Will Navigators Gain from the New Standards?

Ways in which safety nets will be established and implemented under the new CoC standards are discussed by William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma.

Listening to the Patient

William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma, explains how new standards will enhance the tools that navigators can use for specific patient needs, especially as this pertains to metrics that can be applied to policy.

Survivorship Standards and the Navigator

New standards for survivorship provide an ideal place for navigators to usefully intervene in patient care, says William C. Dooley, MD, FACS, Surveyor and Member, CoC, G. Rainey Williams Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Oklahoma.

Leading the Preconference Workshop at the 10th Annual Navigation & Survivorship Conference

AONN+ Co-Founder and Program Director Lillie D. Shockney will be the lead faculty of one of our preconference offerings at the 2019 Annual Conference. The preconference workshop will be devoted to the revisions to the Standards of the Commission on Cancer.

Changes to the Standards of the Commision on Cancer

AONN+ Co-Founder and Program Director Lillie D. Shockney provides a brief overview on some of the oncology navigation-related revisions to the Standards of the Commission on Cancer.