 Hi everyone. So I'm Sarah Kulmeyer. I'm one of three nurse navigators with UNC Zerologic Oncology program. I'm also an oncology certified nurse practitioner. So you know nurse navigators really help navigate your journey, help you get through where you're trying to go. We help make sure our team provides the best communication. We help you communicate with your providers and with your team. I kind of like to think that we help connect the dots between everybody. Generally nurse navigators are really experienced nurses. They've been nurses for a long time. They generally have a high degree. UNC's Cancer Hospital navigators are all certified in oncology. A little bit of history on navigators in the 1980s. I think there was some kind of recognition of the need to help orchestrate a patient's cancer journey. And in the 2000s we started to make it a standard of care. So how is your nurse navigator multidisciplinary? Which is something that is a big focus at UNC is making sure we have a good multidisciplinary team. Your navigators are going to help guide you through initial talking about initial testing, treatments, appointments, diagnosis, and helping to educate you along the way and answer any questions that you might have. Your nurse navigator is going to help you be your advocate and your liaison, be about providing support, identifying support, and making sure that you get in touch with the right support to help any need you may have. We do serve as educators as well about everything along your journey. So we're going to educate you about your diagnosis. We're going to educate you about your treatment options and we might even help provide education when treatment is needing to be changed. This kind of is a really cool picture I found about how the navigator kind of brings everybody together. So you can see here, you've got nurses, pharmacy, nutrition, genetics, rehab, survivorship, psychosocial issues, and then here it kind of cut off a little bit but you have your oncologist, your surgeons, your radiation doctors, and your pharmaceutical folks. So the navigator is really kind of in the middle here and we're your orchestrator to make sure that you can reach all these people whenever you need to and that we can help get you to the right spot. So then your nurse navigator is really kind of your direct link between the patient, yourselves, your survivors, and your team. We're probably the easiest people to get a hold of on your team and can make sure to get you in touch with the person you're trying to reach, especially when it comes to the urology clinic at UNC. So yeah, generally most nurse navigator programs, your navigator is kind of your one person to contact for all your needs, whether it's a nursing question or changing an appointment or a question about a treatment or an upcoming visit that you might have. Nurse navigators are also going to be meeting with you through your journey, talking to you about different issues you might be having and help to really break down the barriers and care that you're coming across because that barrier might be different for every patient. You might have a financial barrier, you might have a transportation barrier, or you might have just need some support. Nurse navigators are really great about knowing where the local resources are, so we're going to definitely make sure that we get you into the right programs and the right groups that you need. Like I said, kind of bringing down those barriers, whether it's transportation, financial. We do a lot of at UNC getting people lodging. We know that our patients are traveling from really far away. So we help to find them places to stay while they're coming for their visits. And connecting you to providers outside of UNC too. We work a lot with Duke. We work a lot with other facilities. Our patients are coming from really far away and so we might work as a team with some of their local doctors. Having a navigator is a really great person where those outside people can call us and we can help facilitate anything that's needed. So education, I know Deanna is one of our navigators who's here with us too. With UNC Urology, we're really trying to bring education into our navigator program and making sure that we educate our patients about anything that they need along the way. So from initial diagnosis of their malignancy to their treatment or to even just nutrition, exercise programs, things like that. So local resource education and support. Yeah, we're trying to get you to the right people in the right spot. So the Urology team at UNC. My name is Sarah Deanna is here. Melissa Holt can be with us today. We're all certified in oncology about a little more than 20 years experience between the three of us providing nursing care for you guys. So thank you.