May 2023 Vol 14, No 5

May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023
All day, every day, nurses make all the difference in delivering high-quality care to those who need it the most. On behalf of all of us at AONN+, I want to recognize the nurses in our community for their invaluable contributions to healthcare.
May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023
Within the structure of a center-wide patient access redesign initiative, the nurse navigators evaluated their contributions and activities as professional registered nurses. They noticed a lack of standard interview questions and a patient referral process that holistically supported patients.
May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023
One of Alessandra’s patients lives more than 100 miles from the cancer center in an isolated region with limited access to specialty cancer care. When a visit to the cancer center was necessary, the patient had a 2- to 4-hour commute, depending on the location of the scheduled treatment.
May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023

With National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week (June 15-21, 2023) on the horizon, it is paramount to acknowledge the pivotal role that nurse navigators play in educating and empowering patients and their loved ones—to include fostering candid and transparent conversations about family health history, knowing our bodies, risk reduction, and proactive cancer screenings. As a breast cancer survivor and founder of the Tigerlily Foundation, I am a testament to the profound, lifesaving impact of these conversations. My mother was a nurse, and I often say that she gave me life and saved my life. Here’s how.

May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023
The Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+) is proud to announce their partnership with Tigerlily Foundation (Tigerlily) on Tigerlily’s #InclusionPledge. The #InclusionPledge is an unprecedented global, multistakeholder initiative focused on diversity, inclusion, and elimination of disparities for Black women living with breast cancer.
May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023
In the fall of 2013, Loriana Hernandez-Aldama was working as a high-profile health reporter and TV news anchor. She was fit, healthy, and busy with her career and 2-year-old son when acute bone pain woke her up in the middle of the night.
May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023
Every day in the United States, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer, but very few are offered the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial, and only a small fraction of those come from underrepresented populations, according to Carmen E. Guerra, MD, MSCE, FACP, associate director of Diversity and Outreach at Abramson Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023
To assist in the practice of holistic care, AONN+ has established the Integrative Health Committee to help identify the modalities that fit seamlessly into the oncology care landscape.
May 2023 Vol 14, No 5 | May 17, 2023
Navigators at the Miami Cancer Institute (MCI) have built a successful navigation program database to track patient care delivery and report metrics, according to Morgan Nestingen, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, NEA-BC, OCN, ONN-CG, director of Nursing, Patient Intake and Navigation Services at MCI.

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