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Examining care navigation: librarian participation in a team-based approach?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study investigated responsibilities, skill sets, degrees, and certifications required of health care navigators in order to identify areas of potential overlap with health sciences librarianship.

Method

The authors conducted a content analysis of health care navigator position announcements and developed and assigned forty-eight category terms to represent the sample's responsibilities and skill sets.

Results

Coordination of patient care and a bachelor's degree were the most common responsibility and degree requirements, respectively. Results also suggest that managing and providing health information resources is an area of overlap between health care navigators and health sciences librarians, and that librarians are well suited to serve on navigation teams.

Conclusion

Such overlap may provide an avenue for collaboration between navigators and health sciences librarians.

SUBMITTER: Nix AT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4816480 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Examining care navigation: librarian participation in a team-based approach?

Nix A Tyler AT Huber Jeffrey T JT Shapiro Robert M RM Pfeifle Andrea A

Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA 20160401 2

<h4>Objective</h4>This study investigated responsibilities, skill sets, degrees, and certifications required of health care navigators in order to identify areas of potential overlap with health sciences librarianship.<h4>Method</h4>The authors conducted a content analysis of health care navigator position announcements and developed and assigned forty-eight category terms to represent the sample's responsibilities and skill sets.<h4>Results</h4>Coordination of patient care and a bachelor's degr ...[more]

PMID: 27076800

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Examining care navigation: librarian participation in a team-based approach?

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Examining care navigation: librarian participation in a team-based approach?

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