She will assist breast cancer patients and their families in coordinating diagnostic appointments and physician visits, help them manage their symptoms, provide education, make patients aware of clinical trial availability and very importantly, easing patient anxiety.
The new nurse navigator also will work with a multidisciplinary physician team from the Breast Cancer Center of Excellence to coordinate evidence-based patient care.
Carney previously served as a chemotherapy nurse for Fort Wayne Medical Oncology & Hematology. Before that, she held positions as charge nurse and nurse manager in medical oncology at
She earned an associate degree in nursing at Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne and is affiliated with Oncology Nurses Society.
More information about the programs and services offered at St. Francis Cancer Center are at http://stfrancishospitals.org/Cancer.
