A National Patient Navigator Training Program

Patient Navigation is an intervention aimed at addressing cancer health disparities by eliminating barriers to diagnosis, treatment, and services. Three major patient navigation (PN) programs (The National Cancer Institute, The American Cancer Society &The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Servic...

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Published in:Health promotion practice 2010-03, Vol.11 (2), p.205-215
Main Authors: Calhoun, Elizabeth A., Whitley, Elizabeth M., Esparza, Angelina, Ness, Elizabeth, Greene, Amanda, Garcia, Roland, Valverde, Patricia A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American Cancer Society
Cancer
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.)
Community Health Workers - education
Cultural Competency
Curricula
Curriculum
Efficacy
Experts
Health disparities
Health inequalities
Health Services Accessibility - economics
Health Services Accessibility - organization & administration
Healthcare Disparities
High schools
Humans
Medicaid
Medical diagnosis
Medically Underserved Area
Medicare
National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
Navigation
Neoplasms - diagnosis
Neoplasms - ethnology
Neoplasms - therapy
Socioeconomic Factors
Underserved people
Underserved populations
United States
Work experience
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Summary:Patient Navigation is an intervention aimed at addressing cancer health disparities by eliminating barriers to diagnosis, treatment, and services. Three major patient navigation (PN) programs (The National Cancer Institute, The American Cancer Society &The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) are underway to address the needs of medically underserved cancer patients. There has not been national training with a defined curriculum for patient navigators (PNs). Curriculum for training the PNs was created by experts from the three programs. The efficacy of training was evaluated using a pre- and posttest. The data show that overall the posttest scores improved from the pretest. In addition, having a high school education or greater or having more years of work experience were significantly related to improvements on the posttest. The first successful standardized national training program was attended by 116 PNs representing 85 cities with the goal to reduce health disparities for medically underserved.
ISSN:1524-8399
1552-6372
DOI:10.1177/1524839908323521