
Edition:
2nd
Oncology Nurse Navigation: Delivering Patient-Centered Care Across the Continuum (Second Edition)
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The second edition of Oncology Nurse Navigation: Delivering Patient-Centered Care Across the Continuum provides novice and experienced nurse navigators with an overview of the role of the nurse navigator in cancer care and outlines the development of a navigation program, the skills and training needed to work as a nurse navigator, methods to evaluate outcomes, and issues related to assisting patients with specific types of cancers.
You'll find support in the key responsibilities of navigation, including
- Partnering with patients and families to keep them informed, facilitating shared decision making, effectively addressing any barriers to care, providing pertinent education, and managing patient expectations
- Collaborating with physicians and healthcare providers to assist in implementing the care plan
- Coordinating with other departments and resources to ensure timely access and care.
This book is essential reading for oncology nurse navigators as they advocate for patients as part of an interprofessional team.
Member Price: $85.00Nonmember Price: $125.95
ISBN:
9781635930344
Published By:
Oncology Nursing Society
Publication Date:
2020
Pages:
432
Chapters
Chapter 1 - Strengthening Our Capacity for the Future of Oncology Care
This chapter discusses the current reality of oncology provider and patient challenges and describes how establishing high-performance teams can support a resilient oncology careforce.
Chapter 2 - Oncology Nurse Navigator Role and Competencies
This chapter gives a brief history regarding ONN competency development, reviews findings from two role delineation studies, and distinguishes the roles of nurse navigator, lay navigator, social worker, care coordinator, and oncology nurse generalist (...
Chapter 3 - Settings and Models of Patient Navigation
Chapter 3 highlights the longitudinal and disease-specific models of patient navigation and provides examples of barriers and interventions for patients with lung, breast, cervical, and prostate cancers. Additional content explores how different models...
Chapter 4 - Determining Community and Program Needs
Chapter 4 examines issues surrounding determining community and program needs. A question-and-answer format is used throughout the chapter to discuss developing a process for patient navigation and conducting an analysis of resources and care barriers to...
Chapter 5 - Applying Organizational Savvy
Chapter 5 addresses key initiatives that influence administrator and physician decisions and presents several strategies that ONNs can use to demonstrate the value-added services of a strong navigation program. The chapter concludes with an exemplar of...
Chapter 6 - Understanding the Business of Navigation
Chapter 6 applies narrative reports, peer-reviewed research, and organizational documents to offer readers guidance in planning, implementation, maintenance, and sustainability of oncology nurse navigation as nurse-led strategies and interventions to...
Chapter 7 - Recruiting, Orienting, and Sustaining Oncology Nurse Navigators
Chapter 7 describes the experience of Emory Healthcare (EHC), in Atlanta, Georgia, in using the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS, 2017) ONN core competencies and other evidence presented throughout the chapter to recruit, orient, and sustain ONNs.
Chapter 8 - Measuring Nurse-Led Patient Outcomes and Patient Acuity
Chapter 8 discusses how the understanding of how navigation affects patients can be improved by capturing data, what data to collect, how this information can help manage navigation programs, and how the data collected can demonstrate value.
Chapter 9 - Navigating Each Phase of the Patient Journey
Chapter 9 provides a brief overview of the ONN Professional Practice Framework and the Oncology Nurse Navigation Care Model and their importance as the foundation for guiding the work of ONNs. Each phase of the cancer continuum has unique issues and...
Chapter 10 - Unique Navigation Issues
Chapter 10 provides case studies of navigation processes outside a particular system or practice and demonstrates the importance of collaboration and awareness of resources across different neighborhoods or areas.
Chapter 11 - Prehabilitation Resources
Chapter 11 provides an overview of prehabilitation (prehab) programs and explores how improving physical and psychological function in the earliest stage of cancer care can be one solution to helping people begin to move through this significant life...
Chapter 12 - Personalized Medicine and Novel Therapies
This chapter provides an overview of the evolution of personalized medicine, categories of personalized medicine therapies, and nursing implications for navigation, education, and symptom management. It also details the mechanism of action of treatments...
Chapter 13 - Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies
Chapter 13 explores issues surrounding complementary and alternative therapies
Chapter 14 - Spiritual Considerations
Chapter 14 explores the benefit of addressing spiritual care in the oncology population, provides assessment strategies for recognizing spiritual distress, and offers self-care strategies for healthcare providers.
Chapter 15 - Cancer-Related Legal Issues
Chapter 15 provides a brief overview of the most common cancer-related legal issues that individuals diagnosed with cancer and their caregivers face and suggests resources that may be useful in supporting ONNs in their role.
Chapter 16 - Financial Toxicity of Cancer Care
Chapter 16 answers questions regarding the economic, medical, physical, and mortality consequences of financial toxicity. From this foundational knowledge, the healthcare team, and oncology nurse navigators (ONNs) specifically, can take concrete steps to...
Chapter 17 - Sexuality and Body Image
Chapter 17 provides techniques for addressing sexuality with patients, describes common sexual health concerns faced by both women and men diagnosed with cancer, discusses body image concerns, and identifies best practices for caring for lesbian, gay,...
Chapter 18 - Integrating Technologies to Facilitate Navigation
Chapter 18 presents an overview of the types of available health technologies that can enable ONNs to meet the demands and the promise of their role. This chapter examines a process for nurses to develop their own plan for technology evaluation and...
Chapter 19 - Difficult Conversations: The Role of Nurse Navigators at Prediagnosis, End of Treatment, and Recurrence
Chapter 19 focuses on three areas specific to nurse navigation strategies and opportunities: prediagnosis and diagnosis disclosure, the end of treatment, and the time of recurrent or metastatic disease when curative or disease-controlling measures are no...
Chapter 20 - Effective Communication Methods
Chapter 20 details the factors involved in healthcare communication, including health literacy, language barriers, and cultural competence.
Chapter 21 - Survivorship Navigation
Chapter 21 provides an overview of common long-term and late side effects of cancer treatment, identifies components of a treatment summary and SCP, discusses barriers to SCP delivery, and offers examples of how ONNs can address survivorship issues...
Chapter 22 - Patients With Severe Mental Illness or Impairment
Chapter 22 focuses on how oncology nurse navigators (ONNs) can effectively communicate with patients with cancer who also have severe, preexisting mental illness or impairment, defined as a mental, cognitive, behavioral, or emotional disorder resulting...
Chapter 23 - Gero-Oncology Considerations
Chapter 23 provides essential background, evidence, and resources to achieve competency in gero-oncology nurse navigation using the age-friendly model. Discussion of frailty screening, geriatric assessment, and intervention anchors consideration of age-...
Chapter 24 - Adolescents and Young Adults
This chapter will discuss specific issues and supportive care strategies as they apply to working with AYAs across key domains of cancer survivorship (Alfano & Rowland, 2009), including medical care, side effects and symptoms, psychological–spiritual...