Implementation Strategies for Integrated Health System Nursing Specialty Group Patricia E. Emerson, RN, MSN, OCN Riverside Health System
This session will focus on the concepts found to be most essential to the success of building, and sustaining a healthcare system wide oncology nursing network. By highlighting our healthcare system’s quality commitment pillars, the framework uses people, integration, safety & quality, growth, and finance as guiding principles. This presenter will demonstrate how integration and collaboration has occurred as the result of monthly conference calls whereby subgroups report work being accomplished, and identify areas of opportunity representing all geographical locations within one health system. The Oncology Nursing Society’s values, mission, and commitment to the professional growth of oncology nurses has also served as a blueprint for the structured development of this team. The Riverside Oncology Network is currently planning the third annual Oncology Nursing Conference, has reviewed and standardized all oncology nursing applicable policies and procedures, competencies, and orientation manuals, increased system wide Oncology Certified Nursing (OCN) percentile from 40% to 65% within two years, hosted educational dinner talks, developed a specialty group newsletter, and provided a collegial networking forum for the group to enhance standardization and core safety measures.
Quality & Cost Implications of Patient Navigation Cheryl Gelder-Kogan, MHSA, Frederick M. Schnell, MD, FACP, Avery Winslett
Central Georgia Cancer Care, in partnership with the Cancer Clinics of Excellence (CCE), implemented a patient navigation program in order to improve the quality of life for its patients and to explore strategies that would simultaneously reduce the total cost of providing care to an oncology patient population. Early results demonstrate that a lay navigator is extremely effective in: