Essay On Nurse Navigator

• Continue research for scholarly articles for journal and senior project
• Create plan for completing senior project and meet all necessary criteria
• Review all course material related to successful completion of assignments.
• Meet with clinical nurse navigator being shadowed to arrange shadowing schedule for myself
• Discuss the growing field of the nurse navigator due to the influx of complex and chronic health conditions in today’s population
• Shadow cardiac thoracic nurse navigator for 16 hours

On Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week, I spent twelve hours researching articles that possibly can be used for my journal entries and senior project. Researching for articles is a daunting task in itself. When I discussed my plan with Dr. Leviner, I had no idea what a nurse navigator is or what it entailed which made it clear as mud to me. After meeting with the clinical manager at East Carolina University, it become a little clearer. Then I met with the nurse navigator at the East Carolina Heart Institute who I would be shadowing. In this journal I will refer to her as D.L. We spent one hour discussing nurse navigator role, responsibilities, qualities, observation, participation probabilities and times

However, there is always room from improvement in anything that anyone does. During my two shadow days, D.L. did not take a break or a lunch. I found out that a lot of the time she works sixty plus hours a week. She works that much in order to keep a close eye on her patients because she does not want anything to go wrong or happen with them since she gets to know them on a very personal level. I am on track for completing this alternate design plan and the necessary components within the assigned timeframe. Hopefully, next week will go about the same as this past week. Next week I am planning to shadow for two days, research for articles and work on journal