[Clinical nurse specialists: leadership, entrepreneurship and research for healthcare].

Clinical nurse specialists (CNS) are nurses with a Master in Science Nursing degree. CNS key competences include leadership, entrepreneurship and research. Using the Symptom Navi programme as an example, we show the importance of CNSs in developing an innovative project and their leadership role in implementing the programme into practice.

Pilot Testing of a Nurse-Led Basic Symptom Self-management Support for Patients Receiving First-Line Systemic Outpatient Anticancer Treatment: A Cluster-Randomized Study (Symptom Navi Pilot Study).

Background: The Symptom Navi Program (SNP) is a nurse-led intervention supporting basic symptom self-management for patients with any cancer diagnosis. The SNP has been accepted by patients and healthcare professionals alike.

Objective: The aims of this study were to pilot the SNP and evaluate patient-reported symptom outcomes, nursing support for symptom management, and patient safety.

Development and implementation strategies of a nurse-led symptom self-management program in outpatient cancer centres: The Symptom Navi© Programme.

Purpose: The Symptom Navi© Programme (SN©P) is a structured nurse-led intervention supporting symptom self-management in cancer patients. We describe the development and evaluation of the intervention, implementation strategy, and the evaluation of nurse training for the Symptom Navi© Pilot Study.

Methods: The intervention was developed using multiple methods (e.

Selbstmanagement bei Krebstherapien fördern: Das Symptom-Navi-Programm.

Unlabelled: Support self-management of symptoms in cancer therapies:The Symptom-Navi-Program Background: Cancer patients experience a variety of symptoms associated with their disease and treatment. Many patients express uncertainty how to self-manage these symptoms. We developed the Symptom-Navi-Program (SNP) to support cancer patients' symptom self-management.

Implementation of the Symptom Navi © Programme for cancer patients in the Swiss outpatient setting: a study protocol for a cluster randomised pilot study (Symptom Navi© Pilot Study).

Introduction: Self-management interventions show promising results on symptom outcomes and self-management behaviours. The Symptom Navi© Programme (SN©P) is a nurse-led intervention supporting patients' symptom self-management during anticancer treatment. It consists of written patient information (Symptom Navi© Flyers (SN©Flyers)), semistructured consultations and a training manual for nurses.

[Flyer to improve self-management of symptoms for patients with cancer – Evaluation of feasibility and comprehensibility of the Symptom Navi].

Background: Short informations with graphic elements may support self management of symptoms. Enhancing self-management is a key element of cancer care. Since 2011 different organisations have been developing patient education handouts, the so called symptom navi with three different graphical variants and slightly different text.