Survivorship
In 2014, the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer mandated in Standard 3.3 that survivorship care plans (SCPs) be provided for all patients at the completion of active cancer treatment. Minimum requirements for what the SCP should include were provided; however, no standardized model was proposed.
Kathleen Brant, CTR, Regina Franco, MSN, ANP-C, Matthew F. Hudson, PhD, Patricia Leighton, MSN Ed, OCN, ONN-CG, Douglas McCormick, MSN, APRN-BC, Mark A O'Rourke, MD, LeAnn Perkins, FNP-BC, DipACLM, Julia Yates, RN, Stephanie M. Hoopes, BSN, RN, OCN, ONN-CG
Delivery of a personalized TS/SCP for cancer survivors is a widely endorsed standard of care.
The Northwell Health Cancer Institute consists of 12 disease site Centers of Excellence, one being the Breast Cancer Center of Excellence.
The impetus to create a survivorship program at our community hospital–based cancer center was our desire to attain NAPBC accreditation.
Cancer and its treatment can have long-lasting or late-onset effects. A robust survivorship program, founded on distress screening and survivorship care plans as recommended by the Institute of Medicine and Commission on Cancer (CoC), can offer support, guide treatment, and provide education in the years after completing cancer treatment.
Cancer survivorship is rapidly evolving, with new cancer survivorship care guidelines issued very recently. Stay up-to-date on new information to ensure that practice keeps pace with new guidelines for care.
I hope this issue of the Journal of Oncology Navigation & Survivorship (JONS) finds you well and enjoying all the summer has to offer.
Policy changes and healthcare payment reform are among the items that will affect the way that cancer patients access care in the near future, said Christin Engelhardt, BS, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS).
Oncology nurse navigators can improve outcomes, quality of care, and patient experience by recognizing and addressing the emotional toll that a cancer diagnosis can take on a patient, the family, and the social network.
At the 2016 Oncology Nursing Society Annual Congress, nurses from different practice settings described the various ways in which they have developed and implemented survivorship care plans, which are expected to be needed for more than 18 million individuals within 10 years.
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