El rol enfermero en el comité de tumores de la unidad funcional de mama en un hospital de segundo nivel del área metropolitana de Barcelona

Introduction

The Rapid Cancer Diagnosis Program was established in Catalonia in 2005. This work aims to understand the role of the nurse case manager (EGC) in the preparation, decision-making and execution of the tumor committee collected in the bibliography and compare it with the role in the breast cancer tumor committee of a regional hospital in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.

Method

A descriptive and comparative study was carried out through a bibliographic review and the identification of the functions performed by the breast cancer EGCs in the study center.

Results

The articles highlight the theoretical importance of the nurse's participation in the decision-making committee, due to her knowledge of the patient and management of healthcare resources. Despite this statement, all of them make it explicit that the EGC has little participation in the team discussion or their contributions receive little consideration from the other team members. In the Breast Tumor Committee of the study center, nurses develop all the functions of coordination, anticipation and execution that we find in the literature.

Conclusions

The figure of the EGC has the need to clarify and unify its functions within the tumor committees, ensuring its contribution, which will allow personalization of treatment decisions, improving the patient's experience and the optimal evolution of the process. In this way, the EGC in our center is a basic figure in the tumor committee due to its leadership; it needs to systematize its role and obtain explicit recognition from the organization.