Quality Cancer Care Clinical Resource Area - Talking Points

• There is a moral obligation to make decisions guided by quality, rather than by cost alone, in all health care restructuring efforts.
• Quality cancer care means a comprehensive approach through the cancer experience from prevention to end-of-life care.
• Quality cancer care means timely access to specialty cancer care in which the patient and family are fully-informed, decision-making members of the cancer careteam.
• Quality cancer care means insurance coverage for cancer care.
• Accountability and coordination of quality cancer care is best accomplished by oncology certified nurses, and oncology advanced practice nurses should be utilized in all cancer care delivery systems.
• Oncology nursing must be incorporated with equal parity in quality cancer care.