What is it about?
The Care Co-ordinator is a new role skill mixing qualified and unqualified nursing staff working together to support cancer patients.This article looks at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust introduction and development of the role
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The article explores the value of having non-qualified staff working alongside clinical nurse specialists in delivering patient support., and how the role not only enhances the patient experience but supports nursing colleagues as well.
Perspectives
I feel extremely privileged to have been the first Care Co-ordinatior in the Trust It has been an exciting and satisfying role, developing services and support for patients and colleagues. The role acted as a test for the gynaecological oncology clinical nursing team and has proved to be successful, resulting in other Care co-ordinators being appointed.
Mrs Christine C Barber
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Role of care co-ordinators in cancer clinical nurse specialist teams, Cancer Nursing Practice, April 2016, RCNi,
DOI: 10.7748/cnp.15.3.31.s25.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
