Abstract
Objective: This study investigated responsibilities, skill sets, degrees, and certifications required of health care navigators in order to identify areas of potential overlap with health sciences librarianship.
Method: The authors conducted a content analysis of health care navigator position announcements and developed and assigned forty-eight category terms to represent the sample’s responsibilities and skill sets.
Results: Coordination of patient care and a bachelor’s degree were the most common responsibility and degree requirements, respectively. Results also suggest that managing and providing health information resources is an area of overlap between health care navigators and health sciences librarians, and that librarians are well suited to serve on navigation teams.
Conclusion: Such overlap may provide an avenue for collaboration between navigators and health sciences librarians.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2016
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2016.59
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Repository Citation
Nix, A. Tyler; Huber, Jeffrey T.; Shapiro, Robert M. II; and Pfeifle, Andrea, "Examining Care Navigation: Librarian Participation in a Teambased Approach?" (2016). Information Science Faculty Publications. 34.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/slis_facpub/34
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Journal of the Medical Library Association, v. 104, no. 2, p. 131-137.
Copyright © 2016 A. Tyler Nix, MSLS, Jeffrey T. Huber, PhD, Robert M. Shapiro II, MALS, Andrea Pfeifle, EdD, PT, FNAP
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