AONN+ Conference Highlights

Prioritizing quality over quantity of care, value-based care and the alternative payment models it incorporates are complicated concepts to master. A primer for navigators dispelled some of this complexity.
Personalities clash in any workplace, and clinical settings are no exception. By learning communication techniques to defuse conflicts, navigators can keep personal battles at bay and remain focused on what matters most—patient care.
Explaining its worthy undertaking of bringing navigation to countries of low and middle income, representatives of the American Cancer Society Building Expertise, Advocacy, and Capacity for Oncology Navigation (BEACON) initiative discussed the development of a toolkit for navigation program development.
In a 3-part presentation, the AONN+ Policy and Advocacy Committee shared its work and goals, discussed COVID-19 and its impact on patients with cancer, and provided an update on Medicaid expansion.
Key components of cancer care, prehabilitation and rehabilitation help to ensure the effects of cancer and its treatment are minimal. Focusing on lymphedema and its profound effects, the presenters discussed the management of this condition for patients with cancer.
Behind the seemingly innocuous vaping devices sold in countless shops nationwide lurk gravely dangerous chemicals that threaten the health of young people.
Nurses and navigators play a crucial role in teaching patients about genetics and genomics, as well as in gathering the vital information necessary to actually carry out genetic testing and allowing patients to take control of their genetic inheritance.
At the 2018 AONN+ Annual Conference, attendees heard a rapid-fire rundown of some of the most newsworthy, and sometimes controversial, topics in cancer care.
Patients with cancer, even in the most “favorable” of circumstances, often face hurdles to care.
Cancer rehabilitation is about making sure patients can take care of themselves and function independently, according to Stacye Mayo, MOT, OT/L, CLT-LANA, Senior Director of Clinical Operations for ReVital, a nationwide comprehensive cancer rehabilitation program.
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