[Use of time of a nurse involved in breaking the diagnosis of lung cancer and navigating patients in the healthcare system: Experience of an academic thoracic oncology ward].

The Plans cancer 1 and 2 created new nursing posts to improve the way that news about cancer was given to patients and to coordinate their care, helping them to navigate the system. We describe the way a nurse, assuming the role of assisting the doctor when a diagnosis of cancer is revealed and coordinating the care of patients in a teaching hospital, uses her time. One thousand and forty-one patients were supported by the nurse during 6515 procedures over 4.