Nurse Navigation

Kathrin Milbury, PhD, assistant professor of Integrative Medicine Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses spouse distress in couples coping with lung cancer.

A novel approach using an automated system of remote monitoring coaching system can help relieve particular stressors caused by adult children caring for their parents receiving hospice care at home.

Mark Lazenby, PhD, APRN, FAPOS, associate professor at Yale School of Nursing and incoming president of American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS), discusses psychosocial topics that concern APOS.

Nick Dionne-Odom, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, discusses the impact of caregiver burden on patient survival.

An oncology nurse navigator learns just how essential the role is, when her own husband is diagnosed with melanoma and a colleague provided just the right support.

Dana Bushman, a certified yoga instructor, provides advice for a patient with cancer beginning yoga.

When it comes to coordinating care for patients with cancer, a nurse with oncology certification needs to play a central role in the process.

Dana Bushman, a certified yoga instructor, discusses the benefits of yoga for a patient, survivor or caregiver.

Patricia Geddie, MS, CNS, AOCNS, a clinical nurse specialist at Orlando Health, discusses a study looking at family caregiver knowledge.

Patricia Carter, PhD, RN, CNS, associate professor, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, discusses a study looking at insomnia and sleep disturbances in patients and caregivers.

Jackie Miller, RN, BSN, OCN, nurse navigator, Virtua Fox Chase Cancer Program, provides an overview of a day of fun, support and education for children and teens who have a loved one with cancer.

Susan R. Mazanec, PhD, RN, AOCN, Research Assistant Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, discusses a study that examined activation for health management in colorectal cancer patients and their family caregivers during the transition to post-treatment survivorship.

Please enjoy this music while your party is reached … "Hello, Mr. Freeman,* this is Venteria Knight. I'm a nurse navigator with Northside Hospital, and we met at the prostate cancer screening last week."

Two new studies highlight the need for cancer survivors and their families to get guidance on healthy lifestyle changes and when the best time might be to integrate them.

Margaretta Page, MS, RN, clinical nurse specialist, UCSF School of Medicine, discusses the importance of caring for the caregiver.

The patient's daughter had not been at the initial consult and thus had only secondhand information from her father and mother.

Tara Sanft, MD, assistant professor of medicine (medical oncology), medical director, Adult Survivorship, Yale Cancer Center Survivorship Clinic, discusses Yale's survivorship program, which is composed of three clinics.

Margaretta Page, MS, RN, clinical nurse specialist, UCSF School of Medicine, offers advice to nurses for how to care for the caregiver.

Caring for the emotional and physical needs of your loved one with cancer can be fulfilling. Is it possible to care too much?? While you are ensuring that the needs of your loved one are being met, you may overlook your own well-being.

Linda told me the too often heard story of a routine chest x-ray before surgery, and suddenly, the anxiety over having a gallbladder removed was overshadowed by the news that the x-ray revealed a large lung mass.

New research has found that high risk and minority women receive better cancer care if they are paired with a patient navigator.

Many studies are currently assessing the role of patient navigation in achieving both quantitative and qualitative improvements in cancer care, and metrics have been developed to capture demonstrable evidence for this relatively new subspecialty of oncology nursing practice. Yet amidst all this fact-finding lives an individual patient with cancer.

This college admissions essay, penned by 17-year-old Samantha Stephens, offers a powerful and poignant reminder of the impact a cancer diagnosis can have on a patient's family and caregivers.

Carol Bush, BS, RN, Nurse Navigator, Midwest Cancer Alliance, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, discusses challenges in the field of nurse navigation.

Caregivers of patients with multiple myeloma face similar challenges to those faced by the patients themselves.

Lori McMullen, RN, MSN, OCN, Senior Oncology Nurse Navigator, University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, discusses the next step in nurse navigation.

I have been living with stage IV lung cancer for three years, not because I have the disease, but because my husband does.

Mary Cooley, PhD, APRN, BC, nurse scientist, Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses issues with monitoring symptoms and patient preferences electronically.

Laurel Northouse's interest in supporting the family caregivers of patients with cancer began nearly four decades ago when the young BSN graduate became a caregiver herself at the age of 27, following her husband's diagnosis of Stage IV Hodgkin's Disease

Sara L. Douglas, PhD, RN, discusses the results of a pilot study that examined the benefit of having a distance caregiver (a relative) present via live video while the cancer patient met with doctors.