Patient Navigator Training Collaborative
June Schedule AnnouncementLevel 2: Facilitation Skills
Interested in enhancing your group-level facilitation skills? Register for the Level 2 Facilitation Skills workshop taking place this June 29-30th.
- Enhance facilitation skills relevant to Patient Navigators delivering group-level intervention
- Focus on the development of new skills as well as the enhancement of existing skills
- Assess your own facilitation skills, understand your strengths and how to fortify those skills
Level 2: Advanced Care Coordination
Healthcare delivery can be very fragmented, which often results in poor health outcomes, patient dissatisfaction, and higher healthcare costs. Coordinated care contributes to patient-centered, high-quality care.
This Level 2 course prepares patient navigators to coordinate care for their clients consistent with Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) guidelines and requirements.
Healthcare delivery can be very fragmented, which often results in poor health outcomes, patient dissatisfaction, and higher healthcare costs. Coordinated care contributes to patient-centered, high-quality care.
This Level 2 course prepares patient navigators to coordinate care for their clients consistent with Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) guidelines and requirements.
At the end of the course you will be able to:
Here’s an opportunity to attend two great level 3 courses June 2-4th in Denver. Level 3 courses are designed for those who supervise, manage and are developing patient navigator programs. Take one or the two courses in conjunction!
Patient Navigator Supervisor: Leading and Administering a Patient Navigator Program
This course provides a basic understanding of the patient navigator (PN) intervention model, reviews challenges facing PN program managers and provides strategies for an effective PN program. We will review identifying evidenced-based clinical guidelines utilizing registries for identifying patients, developing standard work flows, PN training, key supervision needs and evaluation of PN services.
Using Evaluation
This two-day course is designed to meet the needs of Patient Navigator Supervisors who want to increase basic evaluation skills. Participants will learn to use evaluation to improve prevention interventions; define common evaluation terms; use logic models to describe interventions; develop and prioritize evaluation questions; identify steps to prepare for evaluation; and identify strategies for building evaluation capacity within their organization
To register, click on each course name or register for both here.
- Define care coordination
- Describe care coordination activities
- Describe which patient groups would most benefit from care coordination
- Demonstrate 9 Foundational Care Coordination Activities
- Demonstrate how to support patient self-management goals
- Create, communicate review and revise a plan of care
- Discuss ways to measure effects of care coordination
Here’s an opportunity to attend two great level 3 courses June 2-4th in Denver. Level 3 courses are designed for those who supervise, manage and are developing patient navigator programs. Take one or the two courses in conjunction!
Patient Navigator Supervisor: Leading and Administering a Patient Navigator Program
This course provides a basic understanding of the patient navigator (PN) intervention model, reviews challenges facing PN program managers and provides strategies for an effective PN program. We will review identifying evidenced-based clinical guidelines utilizing registries for identifying patients, developing standard work flows, PN training, key supervision needs and evaluation of PN services.
Using Evaluation
This two-day course is designed to meet the needs of Patient Navigator Supervisors who want to increase basic evaluation skills. Participants will learn to use evaluation to improve prevention interventions; define common evaluation terms; use logic models to describe interventions; develop and prioritize evaluation questions; identify steps to prepare for evaluation; and identify strategies for building evaluation capacity within their organization
To register, click on each course name or register for both here.
Advanced Motivational Interviewing
If you haven’t had a chance to attend the Advanced (Level 2) Motivational Interviewing course, take advantage of the opportunity to attend one in Denver on June 16th.
The University of Colorado Cancer Center will be holding a free conference for health care professionals, navigators, public health practitioners and community agencies who are interested in developing and implementing cancer survivorship programs throughout Colorado.
Date: June 25th (afternoon) and June 26th (all day) –1.5 days
Space is limited and travel scholarships available to those living outside of metro Denver.
RSVP: Edie Bridge @ edie.bridge@ucdenver.edu
This conference is partially supported with resources from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
If you haven’t had a chance to attend the Advanced (Level 2) Motivational Interviewing course, take advantage of the opportunity to attend one in Denver on June 16th.
- Building off of the skills you learned in the introductory class, you will:
- Expand your use of questions and reflections to deepen change talk
- Learn to reduce client resistance
The University of Colorado Cancer Center will be holding a free conference for health care professionals, navigators, public health practitioners and community agencies who are interested in developing and implementing cancer survivorship programs throughout Colorado.
Date: June 25th (afternoon) and June 26th (all day) –1.5 days
Space is limited and travel scholarships available to those living outside of metro Denver.
RSVP: Edie Bridge @ edie.bridge@ucdenver.edu
This conference is partially supported with resources from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
