Biography
Penny is currently the Gynecologic Oncology Nurse Navigator (ONN) at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute in Atlanta, GA. She also works with Head and Neck patients as well as providing ongoing education to oncology nurse interns. She has been in this position for 9 years. Prior to that, she was the Clinical Research Director of Southeastern Gynecologic Oncology for 10 years where she coordinated and assisted in writing Investigator Initiated trials, and participated in the ONS team to create the first Core Competencies for Clinical Trial Nurses.
She was a co-editor/ contributing author of the first comprehensive textbook on Oncology Nurse Navigators, Oncology Nurse Navigation, Delivering Patient-Centered Care across the Continuum, published by ONS in the summer of 2014, as well as the companion book, Oncology Nurse Navigation Case Studies, published in spring, 2017.
She was a co-editor of the Scenarios in Navigation column in Nursing News from 2014 to 2018 and is currently co-editing a new Scenarios in Navigation column in Journal of Oncology Navigation and Survivorship and currently serves as Co-Chair of the AONN+ Conference Planning Committee.