Your Nurse Navigator can work with you to design a road map to organize and keep track of any follow-up treatment, next steps and important information to coordinate care among your primary and specialty physicians now and in the future.
Your nurse navigators will help you throughout your cancer journey. They are able to help you with the following:
- Help you understand your diagnosis and treatment options, as well as your follow-up survivorship plan.
- Collaborating with members of the healthcare team and coordinating office visits across medical disciplines to streamline cancer care delivery.
- Connect you with other services, such as financial counseling, cancer clinical trials, genetic counseling and other support services.
- Facilitate communication between all members of your healthcare team and you.
- Provide a personalized touch to cancer care by visiting patients at appointments, assessing patients needs, and relaying relevant information to providers.
- Provide education about your care as well as educational materials.
- Serve as an ongoing source of support for patients, and are available to answer ongoing questions.
- Help decrease barriers to care by assessing needs and linking patients with support groups and community resources.