title: Examining care navigation: librarian participation in a team-based approach?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study investigated responsibilities, skill sets, degrees, and certifications required of health care navigators in order to identify areas of potential overlap with health sciences librarianship.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors conducted a content analysis of health care navigator position announcements and developed and assigned forty-eight category terms to represent the sample's responsibilities and skill sets.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Coordination of patient care and a bachelor's degree were the most common responsibility and degree requirements, respectively. Results also suggest that managing and providing health information resources is an area of overlap between health care navigators and health sciences librarians, and that librarians are well suited to serve on navigation teams.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Such overlap may provide an avenue for collaboration between navigators and health sciences librarians.
authors.forename: A Tyler
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Nix
authors.forename: Jeffrey T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pfeifle
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D058980:Information Literacy; D016245:Librarians; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D007999:Library Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011361:Professional Competence; D024382:Professional Role
keywords: Cooperative Behavior; Delivery of Health Care; Librarians; Patient Navigation