Colorado Patient Navigator Training
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Upcoming Courses
October 25 - November 20, 2011
Patient Navigator Fundamentals EVENING Courses
This Navigator Fundamentals course is designed to improve your patient navigation skills in 7 evenings! This "Level 1" training is for navigators who want to improve their skills and gain knowledge of patient resources, basic health promotion and professional conduct. Don‘t miss this opportunity to network with other navigators!
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. Formats include:
- Face-to-face workshops
- Online courses
- Self-paced online tutorials
- Special-topic webinars
See Training & Career Information
Who is the training for?
Level 1 and Level 2 courses are for patient navigators, social workers, nurses and community healthcare workers who want a basic understanding of issues and practices related to patient navigation. Choose the right course level for you. See the Training Model.
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. Learn about patient navigator careers in the Training & Career FAQ.
Free Tutorials: Just for Navigators!
These free self-paced 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.
- 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.
- Preventive Healthcare 101 Find out what factors help prevent or put us as risk for disease and how to encourage clients to form healthy habits.
- Introduction to the Healthcare System Learn the basics of healthcare systems, insurance, healthcare team members, ethics and the law.
- Chronic Disease Overview Learn about the most common chronic diseases, mental illnesses and how to recognize and help a client in crisis.
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.