AONN+ Conference Highlights
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.
Earlier palliative care for oncology patients with advanced cancer is the new frontier.
A report on navigating barriers to care and providing the best support for patients with colorectal cancer.
Jean Sellers, RN, MSN, discusses her team’s use of lay navigators who are trained to be mindful of the cultural barriers to care that exist in their patient population. “I use an iceberg to reflect the metaphor for culture, what we see is so small compared to the heart and soul of what the person is made up of.”
At the
Sixth Annual Navigation & Survivorship Conference, held October 1-4, 2015, in Atlanta, GA, and its regional West Coast meeting, held May
18-20, 2015, in Seattle, WA, more than 1000 navigation professionals, including oncology nurse navigators, registered nurses, patient navigators,
case managers, social workers, and practice managers, convened to discuss the evolving roles of navigation and survivorship in
cancer care. This monograph is a synthesis of the proceedings of the 2 meetings; discussion points include best practices in navigation,
survivorship, and psychosocial care and implementation of the revised Commission on Cancer (CoC) standards for the benefi t of improved
quality of patient care.
Aaron D. Bleznak, MD, MBA, FACS discussed
the intent of the new 2012 Commission on Cancer
(CoC) standards, and what navigators need to do to
comply. “You’re members of a team whose goal is to enhance
the quality of cancer care that you’re providing to
your patient population,” he said at the Sixth Annual
Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators
(AONN+) Conference in Atlanta, GA. “Consequently,
you have to work with the team to achieve accreditation,
and retain accreditation.”
Jennifer R. Klemp, PhD, MPH presented “Genetics and Genomics: How Does
Navigation Fit In?” at the Sixth Annual Academy of
Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+)
Conference in Atlanta, GA. “The real role of genomic
medicine and where we’re going is that we do want to
be more personalized,” Dr Klemp said. “The larger
panel in genomic testing is going to keep taking us in
that direction.”
“What I hope to see within the next 10 years is that when a patient is diagnosed with cancer, they get a palliative care person on their team and they get a rehab professional on their team from diagnosis,” stated Matthew R. LeBlanc, BSN, RN, OCN.
Carol Gunsch, RN, BScN, CONc, de Souza nurse, and Maureen Watt-Smit, RN, BScN, CONc, de Souza nurse, share Cancer Care Ontario’s personal approach to cancer care through standardized psychosocial distress screening and management.
At the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient
Navigators (AONN+) Sixth Annual Conference,
held in Atlanta, GA, in October, Barbara
Antolino-Smith, RN, BSN, CPN, Pediatric Oncology
Nurse, Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, PA, was
the recipient of the 2015 Oncology Nurse Excellence
(ONE) Award.
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