When planning for cancer survivor care needs, which information should the nurse consider?

A) Survivorship care plans are reviewed with the patient at home.
B) All health care agencies provide survivorship care plans.
C) Some survivors are discharged with no survivor plan.
D) The plan does not deal with future cancer screenings.

Some patients receive care at cancer centers without this type of resource and may not have a survivor care plan. Thus nurses and other health care providers need to become more vigilant in recognizing cancer survivors and attempting to link them with the support and resources they require. Ideally, the nurse reviews a survivorship care plan with a patient at the time of discharge from a treatment program and not at home. The plan becomes a guide for any future cancer or cancer-related care.