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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.
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.
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 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.
When an area is medically under-resourced, it can have a negative effect on care coordination, leading to delays in advanced imaging, diagnostic procedures, and surgical interventions. Advanced practice providers (APPs)—which our system defines as both nurse practitioners and physician assistants—can help improve access to quality care in the rural setting.
8 accc-cancer.org | September–October 2020 | OI Services, any services must be part of the patient’s normal course of treatment in which the physician “personally performed an initial service and remains actively involved in the course of treatment.”1 The physician must also provide direct supervi- sion of the services provided incident to and the medical record must reflect that …
The professional relationship between Caroline Chevallier Hackney as part of the registry staff at CHI St. Joseph Health in Bryan, Tex., has just become matter of fact. I had to remind myself of how this all started, two years ago, before she moved to Mozambique in southeast Africa.
To adequately address patient financial toxicity, institutions must assume responsibility for ensuring that patients understand their insurance coverage and anticipated out-of-pocket expenses. Institutions should also have procedures in place to navigate the pre-certification process and prevent claim denials that may ultimately end up as the patient’s responsibility.
Today, genetic counseling is a key service along the entire cancer care continuum, from prevention to screening to treatment and into survivorship.
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