TNBC Champions
TNBC Champions is The UK Charity for Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)’s dedicated education programme for breast care specialist nurses.
The programme provides TNBC-specific education and resources to help breast care specialist nurses build their knowledge, support informed conversations and strengthen care for people affected by triple negative breast cancer (TNBC).
Key Takeaways
➔ TNBC Champions is The UK Charity for TNBC’s specialist education programme for breast care nurse specialists
➔ The programme helps improve understanding of TNBC and supports more informed care for TNBC patients.
➔ The TNBC Champions programme includes virtual webinars, educational resources and practical tools that breast care nurse specialists can use in practice and share with patients.
➔ TNBC Champions forms part of The UK Charity for TNBC’s wider work to improve awareness, education and support for people affected by TNBC.
What is the TNBC Champions programme?
TNBC Champions is a specialist education programme focused on triple negative breast cancer.
The programme helps breast care nurse specialists build TNBC-specific knowledge and strengthen the support they provide to TNBC patients through access to webinars, expert and patient insight, and practical resources.
How the TNBC Champions programme helps people affected by TNBC
The TNBC Champions programme helps to ensure that people affected by TNBC are supported by healthcare professionals with a stronger understanding of the disease.
When breast care specialist nurses are better informed about TNBC, they are better equipped to answer questions, support patients and have clearer conversations about diagnosis, treatment and care.
Champions can also become a source of specialist TNBC information to support other breast care nurse specialists as well as the wider breast care team.
This can help people affected by TNBC feel better informed, better supported and more empowered, while helping to strengthen the care they receive, with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes for TNBC patients.
What the TNBC Champions programme includes
The TNBC Champions programme gives breast care nurse specialists access to TNBC-specific education and useful resources designed to support people affected by TNBC.
Virtual webinars
The programme includes virtual webinars with new TNBC-specific topics each session.
Each webinar lasts one hour and counts towards one hour of participatory CPD.
Sessions are created and led by members of the charity, medical professionals and researchers in the field, and by people living with TNBC.
Access to resources via the TNBC Champions portal
The TNBC Champions Portal gives TNBC Champions access to a growing library of past webinars and practical resources to support their work.
Resources available through the portal include:
➔ leaflets for both early stage and metastatic TNBC patients
➔ a patient treatment plan to support awareness and conversations around treatment
➔ information about TNBC to support conversations following diagnosis
➔ information about upcoming relevant healthcare events that breast care nurse specialists and other healthcare professionals may be interested in attending
The portal also provides access to a TNBC Champions WhatsApp community, where breast care nurse specialists can ask questions, exchange ideas and learn from one another about supporting people affected by TNBC.
Together, these resources help TNBC Champions build TNBC-specific knowledge to support more confident, informed and consistent care for those with TNBC.
How to become a TNBC Champion
There are two ways to become a TNBC Champion.
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Via the RCN website (with participatory CPD)
Breast care nurse specialists who would like to gain participatory CPD can become an RCN member and watch Becoming a Triple Negative Breast Cancer Champion Part 1 and Part 2 via the RCN website. Once you have completed these webinars, you are a TNBC Champion. You can also watch future webinars via the RCN website for participatory CPD.
You can then create an account through The UK Charity for TNBC website to access the TNBC Champions Portal and its resources.
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Via the UK Charity for TNBC’s Champions Portal (without participatory CPD)
Breast care nurse specialists can also become a TNBC Champion directly through The UK Charity for TNBC website by creating an account to access the TNBC Champions Portal and watching Becoming a Triple Negative Breast Cancer Champion Part 1 and Part 2 .
Through the portal, you can access a full library of past webinars and TNBC Champions resources. Please note that watching webinars through the TNBC Champions Portal does not provide participatory CPD.