Cancer care is complex, and no one should go through it alone.
And that's why I rely on an entire team: nurse navigators, medical assistants, pharmacists,
research coordinators, dieticians, and more, all playing an important role in your care.
So if anyone calls from your doctor's care team, you're hearing from your doctor, with
the same commitment to your well-being.
Behind every voice is the same message: you're supported, you're cared for, and we're walking
with you every step on this journey.
So now let me introduce you to members of your Sutter Health Cancer Care team.
We're your Sutter Health Cancer Care team.
We are your Sutter Health Cancer Care team.
We are your Sutter Health Cancer Care team.
We're your Sutter Health Cancer Care team.
We're your Sutter Health Cancer Care team.
As a navigator, oftentimes we might be the first person to make contact with a patient.
And so I think one of the first things I really try to help them understand is it's
about letting them know who is out there to support them early on.
And whether they need us right then or maybe further down the line, they'll have that
information to be able to contact us.
We help to support each other, and we work together to kind of envelop patients
with support and resources.
So as an oncology navigator, I deal a lot with barriers of care, which means the things that
will interfere with patients getting what they need while they're getting their treatment.
Clinic nurse focuses more on patient education.
I work in the outpatient cancer clinic, generally with one provider for the most part.
We do a lot of patient education.
I also take triage calls for the patients, you know, once they've begun their treatment.
If they're having symptoms, I'm the go-to person for them to contact.
Aside from the medical oncologist, your APC or nurse practitioner, physician assistant will
function as a liaison between nursing staff, pharmacy staff, nurse navigators,
the cancer support services team, just to help coordinate care and act as a resource.
As a medical assistant, I'm kind of the front of the team.
It's my job to room the patients, get their prior authorizations for their medications,
their chemotherapy.
So as a financial navigator, we help find various avenues to help
offset financial burden.
A lot of times that is through copay assistance programs for our commercially
insured patients. So we have access to various programs that
help offset that financial burden.
Financial navigators might not be physically at every facility, but every facility has
access to a financial navigator.
I've been working with Sutter Health for about twenty years now, and I am currently a
scheduler there, working in infusion services at the cancer center.
Cancer, hearing those words, is just one of the scariest things that people could ever be
told in their life. So to come into the office and to meet me,
meet our team, and to just know that it truly is a whole group supporting you on this
journey, it's definitely takes a team approach.
