Share

    


Home / Search Results

Search Results

You searched for:

    Displaying results 1 - 20 of 61
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • »
By leveraging technology, the effects of workforce shortages can be mitigated.
Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., successfully developed a cardio-oncology program designed to implement best practices and guideline-based care, which resulted in an average growth in patient volume of 50 percent per year.
ACCC recently partnered with Hallmark Health Care Solutions to host a live broadcast, where expert panelists discussed barriers and effective practices to ensure the recruitment and retainment of a quality workforce.
This is the first post in an ACCCBuzz series on effective leadership practices in cancer care, written by Dr. Barbara Schmidtman.
Although community-based psychological first aid training is most often provided to prepare for front-line emergencies, Avera Cancer Institute recognized the potential for this training to help foster a culture of resilience and mutual support.
This cancer program needed to build an organizational and operational structure that would support change and encourage adoption and growth. The answer: the Daily Improvement Program.
Embedding a primary care provider in oncology helps on program soar to new heights.
To meet patients’ needs during the height of the pandemic, this cancer program created a collaborative and more efficient hybrid-style Integrative Therapy Program for all of its oncology sites.
Successful leaders will be those who adopt innovative and flexible staffing models, workflows, and processes.
Learn the 10 feasible and impactful “how-tos” Summit participants identified within three domains—care coordination and communication, clinical trials, and acknowledging and mitigating implicit bias.
While the number of oncology patients and survivors is increasing, the growth of medical oncologists has lagged behind, and advanced practice providers (APPs) play a critical role in filling this care gap.
Noble experts make some of the best teachers who often do their work in the trenches, consistently performing with humility and compassion. Their influence extends beyond the workplace into both their own lives and the lives of others, and often into history. In this blog, Robin Atkins, RN, OCN, remembers The James River Clinic and its noble experts.
Through a partnership with Albuquerque Ambulance Service, a local community paramedic group that is a division of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Presbyterian enables qualifying patients with cancer access to certain clinical interventions and wellness checks in their homes from a specialized paramedicine oncology team. The goal of the program is to reduce patient utilization of the ED and reduce …
The idea for a Transitional Oncology Nurse Academy originated from two executive RN administrators, whose collective years of experience working as leaders in the inpatient setting at hospitals, such as Baptist Hospital of Miami, and creating training programs for specialties, such as orthopedics and neuroscience, made developing a transitional nursing program in oncology a natural fit.
ACCC, along with other stakeholders, signed a letter of support for legislation to recognize certified genetic counselors as healthcare providers, giving beneficiaries improved access to these services.
In March 2021, ACCC joined other stakeholders in stating our support of the Access to Genetic Counselors Services Act "to update Medicare law and improve access to genetic counselors for Medicare beneficiaries." Now, ACCC is supporting S. 1450, a bill that would authorize CMS to recognize certified genetic counselors as healthcare providers.
In my breakout session at the 37th ACCC [Virtual] National Oncology Conference, held Sept. 14-18, 2020, I shared that mentorship is often the missing link to facing these staffing challenges.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated risks for patients with cancer, all Life with Cancer programming was cancelled on Mar. 12, 2020. Staff, struggling with their own anxiety over personal safety, quickly went into action on how best to continue to meet the psychological and educational needs of patients and families.
Cancer programs are facing multiple challenges related to treating patients in a COVID-19 environment. Cancer programs need to deploy systems and processes to help navigate these patients into the healthcare system and to work through the backlog of new patients with cancer as quickly as possible within existing resources.
With more than 25 years of oncology nursing experience and more than 18 years as an oncology nurse practitioner, Christa Braun-Inglis, MS, APRN-Rx, FNP-BC, AOCNP, has a wealth of clinical expertise.
    Displaying results 1 - 20 of 61
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • »