AWHONN Convention
 

Sessions

Collaborative Patient Care in a Breast Health Center

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Title: Collaborative Patient Care in a Breast Health Center

Longhorn Hall D (Gaylord Grapevine)
Kari L. Mau, DNP, APRN-BC , College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Discipline: Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • The learner will identify the three challenges in the patient experience during the diagnostic evaluation for breast cancer.
  • The learner will identify three benefits of collaborative practice in a breast health center.
  • The learner will recognize three patient care outcomes that occurred as the result of this innovative care approach.

    • Submission Description:
    Women need timely, appropriate information provided by informed and sensitive caregivers during breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. In order to accomplish this, the successful utilization of nurse navigators been adopted and is well documented in current literature. This innovative program poster highlights the collaborative patient care model which includes a nurse navigator, advanced practice registered nurse, and radiology navigator. This model has successfully improved the patient experience during breast cancer evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.

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