You’re welcome, Sheila!

I can’t wait to hear more as your practice grows how you implement things!

Steph

We are so happy to have you here too!

Advocates get paid 40.00/hr. You do not receive your usual hourly rate.

There is a huge difference between “cancer navigation” and independent advocacy.

Cancer navigation means a patient is assigned a navigator whose job is to carry out the plans put in place by the doctor and healthcare team (and the insurer), whether or not the patient has participated in making those plans. The patient has little or no autonomy…[Read more]

Very interesting and informative video. Good news but different.
What I gathered per the video, their focus is mainly around getting “non-clinical lay persons” trained and credentialed as a patient navigation to guide cancer patients. Not the same as advocate patient navigators.
They (the American Cancer Society) leaders also are working on…[Read more]

Here is the video link for the article Sherri posted above.

If you click on someones name within a thread, it will take you to the place you can choose a private message option!

I hope that helps 🙂

Hi Donna,
I am so sorry that you are having difficulties with the site. Our technical team has been looking into it today and I was hoping to have more information to share with you to get it resolved. I may need to talk to you directly tomorrow to help troubleshoot the issues you are having. I will send you an email so you can respond to me with…[Read more]

Hi Donna,

I did pass my BCPA recently, happy to chat with you about my experience. I can send you a private message ( if can figure out) or happy to jump on a call with you as well.

Hi Michelle (Liptak), In our initial meeting, I think it was you who said that you just received your BCPA credential in the spring exam. Is that you? If so, I’m interested in how you prepared for the exam (e.g., did you take a prep course, use study materials) and what was valuable for you.

I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and…[Read more]

Hello everyone – Sorry that we missed this. The notifications were down and we missed some discussions. We’ll happily plan a call-in for this topic. It’s something that we are aware of and we’ll plan accordingly with an expert on the topic. 

Hello!
This is a great assessment of yourself and I totally understand that it is hard to “sell yourself”! I feel the same way 100%. I always down play my own abilities but it will get easier as you do more and more independent work.
Learning where the line is between nursing and advocacy can be tricky but your knowledge and experiences will help…[Read more]

Thanks for your in the trenches application to the materials provided.

Sheila Ammerman

I think there are 3 of us!

If I were you, I would take the patient to an integrated doctor who could save her having surgery