Centre conversations about navigation within the specialized oncology nurse role, that include navigation/care coordination as one dimension alongside comprehensive health assessment, therapeutic relationships, symptom management, teaching and coaching, decision making and advocacy, professional practice and leadership.
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Look at navigation from the public perspective
Concerned about gap between patient expectation and experience of care; navigation to close the gap?
What is the public/patient perception of navigation?
Measure patient and system outcomes from navigation roles.
Acknowledge that navigator roles are not taking anything away from the specialized oncology nurse role, but rather are roles designed to have a primary focus on navigation and care coordination, where other RN roles have a more diverse focus across the role dimensions.
Reduce barriers to optimally placing specialized oncology nurses within the cancer care system to address patient needs. Consider the structural, contextual, and other factors shaping the fragmented cancer care system in addition to navigator roles (otherwise navigator roles are ‘band-aids’ for broken system).
CANO should have another session at the conference next year to pull apart the layers of navigation and determine CANO’s role in setting the direction for oncology nurse navigation in Canada.
CANO should have a policy or position statement on nurse navigation.
Develop a Navigation SIG to further this discussion.
