Research/Quality/Performance Improvement

Oncology navigation is a patient-focused, time-intensive process.

Blood and marrow transplant (BMT) patients encounter many barriers while accessing curative treatment.

Patient acuity tools have been used to classify patients according to care needs to serve a variety of purposes.

This is your year to conduct research and share your findings. AONN+ and the AQUIRE committee can help you to reach this goal.

Cheryl Bellomo, MSN, RN, OCN, ONN-CG, encourages navigators to conduct research and report findings to enrich the navigation literature and promote best practices.

In today’s healthcare environment, organizations are focusing on quality, outcomes, and evidence-based practice. In this installment of Evidence into Practice, the authors discuss these important qualities in an effective navigation program.

Patient and nurse navigators play an important role in the care of patients from screening through treatment and into survivorship.

In a rural outpatient cancer center affiliated with a nonprofit community hospital, cancer patients prescribed oral chemotherapy receive written and verbal education on the oral chemotherapy agent from the oncology nurse navigator.

Multidisciplinary care is recognized as a sign of quality cancer care according to several organizations, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Institute of Medicine, the National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP), and the Oncology Roundtable.

The number of cancer survivors is increasing because of advances in detection and treatment.