Colorado Patient Navigator Training
What do you want to do?
Upcoming Courses
Summer 2010
Patient Navigator Fundamentals
Navigator Fundamentals is designed to improve your patient navigation skills in one week! Courses include: Patient Navigator Basic Skills & Patient Resources, Basic Health Promotion, and Patient Navigator Conduct. This comprehensive course package is our "Level 1" training. Don‘t miss this opportunity to network with other navigators!
4-day face-to-face workshops in Denver. August 9-12, 2010
Chart Your Own Course.
The Colorado Patient Navigator Training Program offers a full curriculum designed to build patient navigator skills and knowledge. Courses and workshops relate to issues navigators deal with every day and are taught by patient navigation experts. A variety of formats make it easy to incorporate training into a navigator’s busy schedule:
- Face-to-face workshops
- Online courses
- Self-paced online tutorials
Who are the courses for?
Courses are for patient navigators, social workers, parish nurses, CNA’s and other community health care workers. They are intended for health workers who want a basic understanding of issues and practices related to advanced chronic disease. Those relatively new to assisting patients and families will benefit most. See Course & Training Information
What is a patient navigator?
A patient navigator is a member of the healthcare team who helps patients "navigate" the healthcare system and get timely care. Navigators work with patients to identify their barriers to healthcare and connect them to the resources they may need such as financial assistance, counseling, language translation or transportation. See Career FAQ
Learn more about patient navigation.
Two free self-paced online tutorials can help you learn more about patient navigation and chronic disease:
- Patient Navigation and the Healthcare System Get an overview and history of patient navigation. Learn how patient navigation reduces health disparities and improves treatment for chronic diseases.
- NEW! Introduction to Chronic Disease: Impact & Risk Factors Learn why chronic disease is more common today, how disease rates differ among racial and ethnic groups, and how navigators can help.
Ask-A-Navigator
Ask-A-Navigator is one of our a listservs used by navigators to connect to each other. A listserv is like an email list where members can contact each other using a singe email address. Once you join Ask-a-Navigator you can email a question to other navigators at:
Ask-A-Navigator@lists.ucdenver.edu
In your email, include a meaningful subject line and use plain text for your message. File attachments are discouraged. Learn more or join the listserv.