Insights into Navigation

It's January, and many people have made new year’s resolutions. Commonly, such resolutions are focused on dieting or other goals aimed at personal growth. Maybe consider making some resolutions focused on your career path.
You have been there from the start; through thick and thin, navigating your patient through what felt like shark-infested waters for him. He has completed his acute treatment. Now he will be seen every 6 months and you will not be caring for him anymore. What happens?
A newly diagnosed patient becomes dependent on us very quickly. Actually they bond fast with most of the members of their oncology treatment team. Navigators in particular serve as a life line for them as they go on this onerous journey of cancer treatment.
To everyone who just attended our 7th annual AONN+ conference, thank you for joining us in Las Vegas! We trust that you learned a lot from our multidisciplinary speakers, networked with one another, and had some fun while you were there. We sincerely hope you were able to take home some tools, best practices, or different approaches to use in your workplace.
I am more than excited about the launch of the official ONN certification! It is my hope that those who successfully passed this exam that was taken at the AONN+ Annual Conference in Las Vegas will share the news with others and wear their certification pin with pride!
It can be difficult to keep up with all of the cutting edge breast cancer research that is published in the various peer review journals. One option is to subscribe to Artemis, an electronic medical journal that is on the Johns Hopkins Breast Center website.
Good news! Your patient’s insurance company covered the chemotherapy drug! But wait, doesn’t the patient have a copay and deductible to pay?
Navigation & Survivorship News published on September 13, 2016 in Insights into Navigation
We are rapidly approaching the time when one thousand of us will come together for the AONN+ conference in Vegas. A key highlight for this year's conference will be the opportunity to offer the certification exams for oncology nurse navigators as well as patient navigators!
There is a lot of chatter about this happening right now about whether it is rationale and doable to generate a bill for a navigator to perform specific functions that support a patient’s care.
Whether your cancer center has been accredited for years by the American College of Surgeons surveyors, or this is your first time, it is important that you have a place at the table.
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