Plus Pointers

Transforming Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practices in LGBTQIA+ Cultural Competency Training

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
This toolkit presents recommended standards and best practices for training healthcare providers and staff in LGBTQIA+ cultural competence.

Advance Workplace Cultural Competency with GW Cancer Center’s TEAM Training

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
GW Cancer Center offers free online training that is worth 5.6 nurse CEs and aims to facilitate equitable, accessible, and patient-centered cancer care.

Cancer Survivorship E-Learning Series

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
The GW Cancer Center offers free, self-paced training on patient-centered survivorship care. Each module corresponds to 1 credit hour.

Oncology Patient Navigator Training – **Now Featuring Continuing Education Credits for Nurses!**

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center developed a comprehensive, competency-based training that uses evidence-based information and case studies to prepare patient navigators to effectively address barriers to care for cancer patients and survivors.

LGBTQI Training Improves Learner Outcomes

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
To alleviate health disparities experienced by sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients, cancer care professionals need further education on the needs of SGM cancer patients and their loved ones and caregivers.

Measuring Patient-Centered Cancer Survivorship Care

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
Development and use of tools to measure a patient-centered approach to quality survivorship care.

The Cost Benefit of Social Services

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
Payment reform that enables clinicians and organizations to address social barriers to health offers an opportunity to address inequitable health outcomes.

What Makes a Successful Patient Navigation Program?

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
A study examined implementation factors for successful patient navigation programs to optimize the sustainability of patient navigation services across cancer care settings in the United States.

Impact of COVID on Cancer Survivorship Care

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
A survey of cancer survivors showed that the coronavirus pandemic did not have an adverse effect on their care.

Telemedicine During COVID-19

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA, PhD, HON-OPN-CG
Researchers surveyed oncology providers and posttreatment survivors to better understand experiences with the transition to telehealth during the pandemic.