Katie Ozuna
Change Your Focus, Change Your Life
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Katie Ozuna, LMSW
Oncology Survivorship Navigator and Psychosocial Coordinator
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Navigating Cancer Together
How cancer patients and caregivers can improve their lives, relationships and experiences after a cancer diagnosis.
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Women's Health Panel Discussion
Panelists focus the discussion on women’s health. Specifically areas female survivors may face includging genetics, surgery, challenges with body image,…
What To Say To Someone With Cancer
Panelists focus the discussion on women’s health. Specifically areas female survivors may face includging genetics, surgery, challenges with body image,…
Finding Opportunities When Facing Adversity
Panelists focus the discussion on women’s health. Specifically areas female survivors may face includging genetics, surgery, challenges with body image,…
What To Say To Someone With Cancer
Panelists focus the discussion on women’s health. Specifically areas female survivors may face includging genetics, surgery, challenges with body image,…
Featured Articles
Communicating About Cancer—More Fun Than Jury Duty
If you’ve made it past the title of this article and are still reading, I want to give you a huge high-five, walk past you, and give you a behind-the-back low-five. I’ve been talking about the need to communicate about cancer for many years—first as a caregiver to my husband, then as a volunteer in my community, and now as an oncology social worker and navigator. I’ve found that many people react to “communicating about cancer” as if it’s jury duty on their birthday. The last time I introduced this topic at a conference, I heard an audible sigh of exasperation.
Communication Through The Cancer Journey
The cancer journey can be a difficult and challenging time not only for the patient, but also the caregiver, who is often a family member. Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at Medical City Healthcare Navigation Director, Emily Gentry, and Oncology Survivorship Navigator, Katie Narvarte, share ways that caregivers can best support their loved ones through communication every step of the way, while also caring for themselves.
A Quantitative and Qualitative Quality-of-Life Evaluation of a Large Navigation Team
Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute, the Oncology Service line for Medical City Healthcare in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, has a team of 13 disease-suite oncology nurse navigators and 2 survivorship navigators. They cover 11 hospitals, with each navigator caring for a high volume of patients. Navigation program leadership observed the impact of emotional stress on the navigators and challenged the survivorship navigators—a social worker/nurse team—to develop a self-care program for the navigation team.
How mindfulness can positively impact your cancer journey
"Mindfulness" is about being in the present. When it comes to facing a cancer journey, being mindful of your body, your time and your emotions can be especially helpful in ensuring you are keeping yourself as healthy as possible before, during and after treatment.
What is Palliative Care?
Commonly mistaken for hospice care, palliative care is a type of outpatient care that is available to improve the quality of life for patients who have a potentially life-threatening disease.
How to Combat Fatigue During the Cancer Journey
One of the most common side effects of cancer treatment is feeling fatigued. Fatigue arises because your body is working hard to fight off cancer cells and rebuild healthy cells, which takes a massive amount of energy. The cancer journey can affect patients both physically and emotionally, as they add doctor appointments and treatments into their daily life and digest new information, while balancing the demands of their normal routine.