Survivorship
Work is central for most adults in the United States, including women with breast cancer.
Cancer patients must juggle doctor appointments; combat treatment side effects, while trying to maintain a sense of normalcy; and handle financial struggles.
Innovation takes time, especially when it comes to cancer research. Unfortunately, delays in the adoption of novel oncology treatments can have a significant effect on patient health.
Nurse navigator Cheryl Bellomo discusses the essential role of navigators in ensuring that quality survivorship care begins at diagnosis and continues throughout the balance of a patient’s life.
Eugenia Artice, RN-BC, BSN, Marian E. Gilmore, RN, OCN, Pamela Goetz, BA, OPN-CG, Barbara R. McHale, RN, BS, OCN, CBCN, ONN-CG
The authors present a case study in resourceful navigation in a rural setting.
The authors present a case addressing the importance of understanding issues facing cancer survivors in order to provide effective patient-centered survivorship care.
In the delivery of survivorship programs, oncology nurses have a duty to the person as whole, not just to their cancer.
Due to advances in early cancer detection and treatment, more adults are surviving cancer and living long past the end of treatment.
Developing an evidence-based survivorship navigation program involves a fair amount of trial and error, according to JaLisa Boyd, RN, BSN, MS, and Katie Navarte, LMSW, who make up a nurse/social worker survivorship navigation team at Sarah Cannon, the Cancer Service Line for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) hospitals.
The world of breast cancer management is changing, just as the statistics for the disease has improved over the past decade.
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