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The Central Georgia Cancer Coalition  promotes prostate cancer awareness and urges men to discuss screenings with their healthcare providers.   

 

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Navigating cancer care presents unique challenges. Unforeseen barriers such as inadequate transportation or financial hardship can inhibit the treatment and recovery process when patients become overwhelmed and discouraged.  Underserved populations, including those in rural areas, experience an acute lack of care planning and navigation without sufficient coordination of care among providers.  They are particularly vulnerable to communication and information problems (such as language barriers or illiteracy), pervasive distrust of the medical system, and geographic remoteness that makes attending doctors’ appointments and treatments unduly difficult. Cancer patients in rural areas may be unaware of available support services and have greater difficulty accessing what services are available. Cancer Care Nurse Navigators help patients and their families to discern a course through the complex web of cancer care, insuring each patient receives the maximum possible benefit of available resources.

The Cancer Care Nurse Navigator (CCNN) program is a 60 contact (clock) hour on-line educational offering designed to prepare nurses for  personalized educational, advocacy, and support roles with cancer patients, survivors, and family members as they experience the uncertainties of cancer diagnosis and treatment and negotiate the health care system in the local communities within Georgia. The focus of the program is to learn ways to empower patients and their families through access to comprehensive information and cancer resources as they “navigate” the common physical, emotional, social, and financial burdens inherent in the experience of cancer. Emphasis will be given to helping individuals and families within their local communities along the cancer-care continuum, including quality of life issues, palliative and end-of-life

care planning, especially those who would otherwise be under-served.  Attention will be given to establishing a framework of care that is current, caring, ethical, and evidence-based.

Participation in the CCNN program will be available to nurses who desire a preferred professional opportunity with individuals and families experiencing cancer.  The program will be of value to those who work with cancer patients in hospital, primary care or physicians’ office settings, as well as those with positions in  community care and parish nursing.  Participants will gain knowledge, skills, and a value set such that they can provide holistic, culturally-sensitive, competent care to those experiencing cancer directly or indirectly and to meet their individualized needs for education and support along the cancer care continuum. 

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Click here for an enrollment application.    This document is required for enrollment and tuition assistance consideration.   This application must be submitted by 5pm December 30, 2009.  Perspective students should receive a response by January 8, 2010. (This document requires the free Adobe Acrobat reader and can be submitted electronically through Acrobat Reader.)