Comments for Patient Navigator http://patientnavigator.com/blog Patient and Medical Advocates to Guide Your Journey Through Illness Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:17:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Comment on Training Programs for Patient Navigators by Sherry Kielman http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2009/10/09/training-programs-for-patient-navigators/comment-page-1/#comment-2001 Sherry Kielman Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:17:23 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=167#comment-2001 i am very interested in this program-i was helped by a nurse navigator when my husband was sick with cancer-she helped me immensly-my husband has since passed-but i would love to help someone else if i can-i know how lost you can become at a time like that and how you need someone to help you when you don't have a clue where to turn-please get back to me-sherry kielman i am very interested in this program-i was helped by a nurse navigator when my husband was sick with cancer-she helped me immensly-my husband has since passed-but i would love to help someone else if i can-i know how lost you can become at a time like that and how you need someone to help you when you don’t have a clue where to turn-please get back to me-sherry kielman

]]> Comment on Becoming a Patient Navigator – Update by Wanda Frost http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2010/02/24/becoming-a-patient-navigator-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2000 Wanda Frost Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:02:19 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=299#comment-2000 Please send me information on any online Breast Nurse Navigator Certification programs. I am very interested in becoming certifed and would like to do this online if possible. I am currently employed at a Breast Center and would love to become certified in this area. I appreciate any information. Thanks so much. Wanda Frost RN Please send me information on any online Breast Nurse Navigator Certification programs. I am very interested in becoming certifed and would like to do this online if possible. I am currently employed at a Breast Center and would love to become certified in this area. I appreciate any information. Thanks so much.
Wanda Frost RN

]]> Comment on Becoming a Patient Navigator – Update by GLORIA ESPINOZA http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2010/02/24/becoming-a-patient-navigator-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1996 GLORIA ESPINOZA Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:00:01 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=299#comment-1996 I am interested in the "lay navigator" program. Can you give me more information. Our facility has been without a nurse navigator for 3 months now and I have been the fill in person with some responsibilities. Now that they are looking to fill the position, I want to apply for it and become more involved with the program. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am interested in the “lay navigator” program. Can you give me more information. Our facility has been without a nurse navigator for 3 months now and I have been the fill in person with some responsibilities. Now that they are looking to fill the position, I want to apply for it and become more involved with the program. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

]]> Comment on Becoming a Patient Navigator – Update by pharmacy finder http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2010/02/24/becoming-a-patient-navigator-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 pharmacy finder Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:33:24 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=299#comment-1959 What's great about being a nurse navigator is helping families understand the complicated web of health care and making smart choices with regard to care setting What’s great about being a nurse navigator is helping families understand the complicated web of health care and making smart choices with regard to care setting

]]> Comment on Becoming a Patient Navigator – Update by blog http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2010/02/24/becoming-a-patient-navigator-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1876 blog Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:39:02 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=299#comment-1876 Re: nurse navigator: check this site: http://healthadvocateprograms.com/ Also check with Tina Evans here: http://collaborativecareconsulting.com/about-tina-evans-oncology-nurse-navigator.htm Re: nurse navigator: check this site: http://healthadvocateprograms.com/

Also check with Tina Evans here: http://collaborativecareconsulting.com/about-tina-evans-oncology-nurse-navigator.htm

]]> Comment on Becoming a Patient Navigator – Update by marion http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2010/02/24/becoming-a-patient-navigator-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1874 marion Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:38:31 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=299#comment-1874 looking for a general cancer nurse navigator certification program....vant find any! looking for a general cancer nurse navigator certification program….vant find any!

]]> Comment on Hearing Loss Help Is Often Out of Reach by David A. Thorpe http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2011/06/14/hearing-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-1820 David A. Thorpe Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:52:54 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=694#comment-1820 I have been dispensing hearing aids in California for the past 28 years.I have fit every type of hearing loss and every type of personality during that time and I have come to the conclusion that there are three factors in a successfu hearing fitting, which means usage of the aids. One third of the fitting is the product (Hearing Aid) one third is the dispenser, whatever their title,and the other third is the client or patient.I have found that hearing aid manufacturers are primarily assemblers of hearing aid components, and that they are almost all alike with few exceptions. One of the most important considerations for the Dispenser, since he is a service provider and a business person, as is everyone else in the healthcare field, is compatibility with the hearing aid Manufacturer and the client-patient and the ability to do business with both.Too often, clients think that the most important influence or factor, is the hearing aid. That is not the case. The Patient-Client is the most important factor, and then the Dispenser.Experience, by all three components mentioned, is the most important consideration. First time Users of hearing aids, as they are referred to by the Industry, are without question or doubt the most difficult to fit (Satisfy) because they have unrealistic expectations. The purpose of a hearing aid is to enable the user (Client-Patient) to understand the spoken word correctly in as many environments as possible, and with as many communicators as possible. Some people, for whatever reason, are not good speakers. In my 28 years, there have been less than 6 times, out of thousands of hearing aids, that the product was defective. Usually the problem is in the ear canal of the user, or the work environment. Cerumen (earwax) is the number one problem, and then moisture,dirt,or dust. Dirty hands that deposit contiminants onto the microphones. Because of Digital Signal Processing, the response curve of the hearing aid can be very precise and set to the audion preferences of the User. Other features, (Programs) make the hearing aid more tolerable and effective in more environments.It takes patience and practice on everyone's part. The physical designs now available, enable Dispensers to be more effective in their fittings, and more tolerable and effective for the hearing aid User. I have come to the conclusion, in agreement with my Mentor 28 years ago who was a prominent ENT, THAT FITTING HEARING AIDS IS MORE AN ART THAN A SCIENCE. My best advice to anyone navigating for hearing aids is that they seek out the Dispenser (whatever they are called) with the oldest State Dispensing License. What that usually reflects is Experience,Competence,Integrity,Ethics,and Compliance with State Laws, which at least in California are vigerously enforced. It also usually means they are fair and competitively priced, or they wouldn't have survived very long in the competitive business world of hearing aidsd. Not to mention honesty. David A. Thorpe (800)432-7114 I have been dispensing hearing aids in California for the past 28 years.I have fit every type of hearing loss and every type of personality during that time and I have come to the conclusion that there are three factors in a successfu hearing fitting, which means usage of the aids. One third of the fitting is the product (Hearing Aid) one third is the dispenser, whatever their title,and the other third is the client or patient.I have found that hearing aid manufacturers are primarily assemblers of hearing aid components, and that they are almost all alike with few exceptions. One of the most important considerations for the Dispenser, since he is a service provider and a business person, as is everyone else in the healthcare field, is compatibility with the hearing aid Manufacturer and the client-patient and the ability to do business with both.Too often, clients think that the most important influence or factor, is the hearing aid. That is not the case. The Patient-Client is the most important factor, and then the Dispenser.Experience, by all three components mentioned, is the most important consideration. First time Users of hearing aids, as they are referred to by the Industry, are without question or doubt the most difficult to fit (Satisfy) because they have unrealistic expectations. The purpose of a hearing aid is to enable the user (Client-Patient) to understand the spoken word correctly in as many environments as possible, and with as many communicators as possible. Some people, for whatever reason, are not good speakers. In my 28 years, there have been less than 6 times, out of thousands of hearing aids, that the product was defective. Usually the problem is in the ear canal of the user, or the work environment. Cerumen (earwax) is the number one problem, and then moisture,dirt,or dust. Dirty hands that deposit contiminants onto the microphones.
Because of Digital Signal Processing, the response curve of the hearing aid can be very precise and set to the audion preferences of the User. Other features, (Programs) make the hearing aid more tolerable and effective in more environments.It takes patience and practice on everyone’s part. The physical designs now available, enable Dispensers to be more effective in their fittings, and more tolerable and effective for the hearing aid User.
I have come to the conclusion, in agreement with my Mentor 28 years ago who was a prominent ENT, THAT FITTING HEARING AIDS IS MORE AN ART THAN A SCIENCE.
My best advice to anyone navigating for hearing aids is that they seek out the Dispenser (whatever they are called) with the oldest State Dispensing License. What that usually reflects is Experience,Competence,Integrity,Ethics,and Compliance with State Laws, which at least in California are vigerously enforced. It also usually means they are fair and competitively priced, or they wouldn’t have survived very long in the competitive business world of hearing aidsd. Not to mention honesty.

David A. Thorpe
(800)432-7114

]]> Comment on Pain Management – Why Doctors Don’t Get It by Charles Fifer http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2011/03/22/pain-management-why-doctors-dont-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1818 Charles Fifer Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:47:20 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=624#comment-1818 I am one of the unfortunate statistics in the catigory of undertreated chronic pain. In short, I have a seizure disorder that causes serious physical bodily harm when I have them. They have caused multiple dislocations of both shoulders as well as torn rotator cuffs, comperssion fractures of the spine to name a few. My seizure disorder started on january 6,2008, and has only gotten worse since then. After four years, many different attempts to decrease the seizures with medications and ever increasing dammage, broken bones and pain with no end in sight, I have given up. I honestly feel as if I have been left behind and I was completely unprepaired for the total lack of compassion and humanity that I have been experiencing. Before my personal experience with this type of pain, I believed that people were mostly under general circumstances good and would do the right thing most of the time. I have always lived a life of trying to give the best of myself to others, to be as honest and caring as I possibly can, and always give the benifit of the doubt until such a time that I was given a valid reason to believe otherwise. I think I have greatly overestimated people after recent events, and I now believe the rest of my days will be lived in increasing pain and seizures (of which I don't know when they are going to happen), And I hope that someday that there will be more compassion and a greater understanding of pain and it's appropriate treatment! I am one of the unfortunate statistics in the catigory of undertreated chronic pain. In short, I have a seizure disorder that causes serious physical bodily harm when I have them. They have caused multiple dislocations of both shoulders as well as torn rotator cuffs, comperssion fractures of the spine to name a few. My seizure disorder started on january 6,2008, and has only gotten worse since then. After four years, many different attempts to decrease the seizures with medications and ever increasing dammage, broken bones and pain with no end in sight, I have given up. I honestly feel as if I have been left behind and I was completely unprepaired for the total lack of compassion and humanity that I have been experiencing. Before my personal experience with this type of pain, I believed that people were mostly under general circumstances good and would do the right thing most of the time. I have always lived a life of trying to give the best of myself to others, to be as honest and caring as I possibly can, and always give the benifit of the doubt until such a time that I was given a valid reason to believe otherwise.
I think I have greatly overestimated people after recent events, and I now believe the rest of my days will be lived in increasing pain and seizures (of which I don’t know when they are going to happen), And I hope that someday that there will be more compassion and a greater understanding of pain and it’s appropriate treatment!

]]> Comment on Becoming a Patient Navigator – 2011 Update by Melissa http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2011/02/20/becoming-a-patient-navigator-2011-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1805 Melissa Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:19:02 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=538#comment-1805 Hi, I'm curious about the educational requirements for becoming a patient navigator. I do not have a background in health care but do hold a bachelors degree and am working towards a Masters Degree in other fields. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 at the age of 36 and it changed my life. I didn't have someone to walk me through the process. Ever since, I have been drawn to to helping people through their journey with cancer and have been searching for opportunities to change career fields to somthing I am passionate about. I am wondering if there are training programs available for people who cannot be a "nurse navigator"? Thank you for your time! Melissa Hi, I’m curious about the educational requirements for becoming a patient navigator. I do not have a background in health care but do hold a bachelors degree and am working towards a Masters Degree in other fields. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 at the age of 36 and it changed my life. I didn’t have someone to walk me through the process. Ever since, I have been drawn to to helping people through their journey with cancer and have been searching for opportunities to change career fields to somthing I am passionate about. I am wondering if there are training programs available for people who cannot be a “nurse navigator”? Thank you for your time!

Melissa

]]> Comment on Becoming a Patient Navigator by Jana Frankel http://patientnavigator.com/blog/2009/04/09/becoming-a-patient-navigator/comment-page-2/#comment-1753 Jana Frankel Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:41:21 +0000 http://patientnavigator.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1753 I am a 2 time breast cancer survivor and have over 20 yrs working in HIV/Cancer education & counseling. I currently work in a cancer registry & as a volunteer Reach to Recovery & Leg. Ambassador for the ACS. I would like to network with Patient Navigators to find out how they got into this field. My goal is to do this part time and cont with it after I retire from my current job. janafrankel7@yahoo.com I am a 2 time breast cancer survivor and have over 20 yrs working in HIV/Cancer education & counseling. I currently work in a cancer registry & as a volunteer Reach to Recovery & Leg. Ambassador for the ACS. I would like to network with Patient Navigators to find out how they got into this field. My goal is to do this part time and cont with it after I retire from my current job.
janafrankel7@yahoo.com

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