Nancy Foreman, BSN, RN, OCN, was nominated for the Extraordinary Healer award.
Nancy Foreman, BSN, RN, OCN, is our fantastic nurse navigator. Nancy has been a nurse for 48 years and an oncology nurse for round 25 years. She works infinite hours ensuring all sufferers are taken care of in a well timed method. She provides sufferers her cell quantity to higher help them via their journey. She follows every affected person from begin to end, from scheduling their diagnostic testing to making sure their chemotherapy medicines are permitted/prepared. Nancy additionally completes our genetic testing and assists the infusion RNs when wanted.
Nancy coordinates affected person care via different amenities, making certain our sufferers are getting their scans and appointments promptly. Nancy really goes above and past for her crew and the sufferers.
Being a breast most cancers survivor herself, Nancy is aware of join with the sufferers. She understands what they’re going via, and she or he is aware of what kinds of testing or medicines are wanted for his or her analysis. Nancy additionally assists with our breast most cancers clinic that we do every week with our oncologist, Dr. Mathern, surgeons Dr. Preston and Dr. Collins and radiation oncologist Dr. Rice.
Nancy attends in-services and conferences annually to higher improve her information in oncology and the newer therapies. Nancy by no means will get flustered in her job and all the time has a smile on her face. She really cares for every affected person, and her compassion shines vibrant in her work day by day.
Previous to coming to our workplace full time, Nancy labored for our native hospital and would observe every affected person from discharge to their seek the advice of with their oncologist.
Please contemplate Nancy for this prestigious award. She is past deserving and probably the most superb women I’ve ever met.
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