When it comes to our health, more often than not, we feel like we are rowing our own boat. We can see our health care providers in their own boat across the ...

Sorrow. Fear. Uncertainty. “Hurry up and wait”. These are all things that run through my mind as I sit in the lobby of the outpatient surgery center at the h...

I’m a nurse, and once you become a nurse, you get asked a lot of questions about a lot of different things. ‘Can you look at this cut on my finger that the s...

In order to have a good working relationship, you need to be able to trust the one with whom you are working. Building trust takes time and the ability to se...

In follow up to our blog last week on the Medication Language, it’s not only important making sure you can understand your medications, but it makes no diffe...

Have you ever tried learning a new language? Every summer for a few weeks when I was growing up, my family hosted Japanese exchange students. Each time a stu...

When it comes to your health, especially with an acute issue, knowing what steps to take can be challenging. When you don’t feel well, all you can think abou...

Have you ever tried so hard to make something happen, but you hit roadblock after roadblock. Or perhaps it wasn’t even a roadblock; maybe it was a solid bric...

The definition of continuity is ‘the unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over a period of time’. So, why Continuity Navigation? The r...

I started my journey in Care Navigation over seven years ago, being hired to develop the “care coordination” role. “Care coordination” was a vague and distan...

Patient navigation is a community-based service delivery intervention designed to promote access to timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other chroni...