To assist and empower health care professionals (HCPs), Novartis offers a library of downloadable and on-demand resources. These include content about HCP burnout, oral oncology, palliative care, quality-of-life issues, and forward-looking drug development.
Both providers and patients feel the impact of physician burnout in a variety of ways. These resources help HCPs – and the institutions they work for – identify and cope with burnout, understand their risk, and develop strategies to increase resiliency and minimize burnout.
This video educates leaders on how to help prevent HCP burnout in a medical practice or hospital.
Download the Addressing and Preventing Burnout Tip Sheet (PDF 0.11 MB)
This video explains the prevalence and potential consequences of stress and burnout in HCPs.
Download the Prevalence and Consequences of Burnout and Stress in Health Care Tip Sheet (PDF 0.90 MB)
This video illustrates the symptoms of stress and burnout and how to help prevent burnout in HCPs.
Download the Recognizing and Preventing Burnout in Yourself and Others Tip Sheet (PDF 0.15 MB)
This podcast features a conversation with Kathleen Sweeney, Director of Hematology and Transplant Services for the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Network. This podcast discusses stress, HCP burnout, and how to address it.
During treatment with oral oncology medications, HCPs, patients, and their caregivers may benefit from educational and support resources specific to navigating care with oral oncology medications, which may be different from other forms of oncology treatment.
In this video, Ryan J. Haumschild, PharmD, explains how to coordinate care for patients receiving oral oncolytics.
Download the Oral Oncology Coordination of Care Tip Sheet (PDF 0.16 MB)
This video discusses how pharmacy staff can effectively communicate to improve oncology patient and caregiver interactions.
Download the Empathetic Listening and Effective Communication Tip Sheet (PDF 0.09 MB)
This podcast features a conversation with Ryan J. Haumschild, PharmD, on oral oncology care coordination and the importance of patient adherence.
In this video, Ryan J. Haumschild, PharmD, explains the important role caregivers play in patient adherence to oral oncolytics.
Download the Caregiver Role in Adherence in Oral Oncology Care Coordination Tip Sheet (PDF 0.10 MB)
In this video, Ryan J. Haumschild, PharmD, discusses the role of technology in coordinating oral oncology care.
Download the Technology’s Role in Coordinating Oral Oncology Care Tip Sheet (PDF 0.10 MB)
This collection of tools for HCPs includes a question guide for developing an oral oncology framework, a flow sheet for navigating and managing patient therapy, and a fact sheet on the benefits and challenges of in-house dispensing pharmacies and specialty pharmacies.
Download the HCP Oral Oncology Tools Resource (PDF 1.04 MB)
This fact sheet looks at the critical role dispensing pharmacists play in helping patients follow oral treatment regimens.
Download the Supporting Appropriate Adherence Fact Sheet (PDF 0.13 MB)
This fact sheet provides an overview of 3 tools for HCPs that can help in navigating patient care with oral oncology medications.
Download the HCP Oral Oncology Medication Tools Resource (PDF 0.14 MB)
This guide provides a framework for health care organizations to assess oral oncology programs.
Download the Components of an Oral Oncology Program Guide (PDF 0.95 MB)
This fact sheet for HCPs provides an overview of benefits, challenges, and considerations around acquiring medications through an in-house dispensing pharmacy or specialty pharmacy.
Download the Medication Acquisition Fact Sheet (PDF 0.09 MB)
This flow sheet for HCPs helps them navigate key components of managing patient therapy with oral oncology medication.
Download the Oral Oncology Medication Therapy Management Flow Sheet (PDF 0.13 MB)
Palliative care is a specialized approach to medical treatment for patients with serious or life-threatening diseases. These resources can facilitate conversation between HCPs, patients, and caregivers about early adoption of palliative care and its benefits.
In this video, Bridget Scullion, PharmD, talks about addressing challenges in palliative care.
Download the Considerations for Providing Palliative Care Tip Sheet (PDF 0.06 MB)
In this video, Bridget Scullion, PharmD, discusses palliative care, encouraging conversation about its integration into early care management.
Download the Palliative Care for Patients and Caregivers Tip Sheet (PDF 0.14 MB)
This podcast features Bridget Scullion, PharmD, discussing the future of palliative care.
In this video, Bridget Scullion, PharmD, explains the many benefits of palliative care.
Download the Exploring the Benefits of Palliative Care Tip Sheet (PDF 0.14 MB)
Quality of life metrics can help the patient care team develop shared goals beyond symptom and disease management. The resources here provide an overview of instruments, and facilitate communication between HCPs, patients, and caregivers about quality of life.
This video explains quality-of-life measures and how they are used in oncology care.
Download the Introduction to Quality-of-Life Measures Tip Sheet (PDF 0.16 MB)
This video discusses how quality-of-life measures can affect oncology treatment.
Download the Quality-of-Life Measures in Action Tip Sheet (PDF 0.78 MB)
Learn how significant advances in medical science, drug trial designs, and the FDA's Accelerated Review Process have resulted in more oncology therapy options for physicians and cancer patients.
This video covers the drug development process and recent advances in the field.
This video covers the various ways that pipeline compounds can potentially gain accelerated approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration.