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Our team of Nurse Navigators will guide you through this journey.
Hearing a prostate cancer diagnosis is frightening. It’s difficult to know how to deal with this diagnosis and what steps to take to ensure the optimal outcome. Our team of Nurse Navigators will provide support every step of your journey.
Our nurse navigators are registered nurses who specialize in guiding newly diagnosed patients and their caregivers through the cancer journey, from diagnosis through survivorship. It is often difficult for patients to understand their specific care options at a time when they are feeling overwhelmed by the news of the cancer diagnosis. Your nurse navigator will be there to help ensure that you and your family are empowered with information to make a treatment decision.
Our nurse navigators work closely with each patient’s urologist and the care team. The nurse navigator is educated in understanding the details of cancer treatment and will support, guide, and answer questions for you through all stages of treatment and beyond. As advocates for patients and their families during prostate cancer treatment, nurse navigators enhance the quality of care you receive.
The navigator will contact you following your cancer diagnosis discussion with your urologist to answer any questions you have about treatment and will stay in touch with you by phone as needed.
The navigator will help you plan your next steps including setting up consultations with physicians and scheduling additional tests and procedures if needed.
Our goal is to make this journey as seamless as possible. This can be a challenging time for you and your family. Our team of doctors, nurses, support staff, and nurse navigators are here to guide you and be a resource.
Jeannie Colamussi is one of our advanced prostate cancer Nurse Navigators with Integrated Medical Professionals. She takes great pride in being a Registered Nurse for close to 38 years.
As a new nurse she joined the Mercy Hospital / Catholic Health Family and proceeded to spend the next 36+ years working in various capacities throughout the hospital. Jeannie thoroughly enjoyed 25 years in critical areas from the Intensive Care Unit, Electrophysiology Lab and Cardiac Cath lab. She is most proud of developing a Navigation program at Mercy and played an integral part in helping it grow and thrive. Although she worked with all cancer patients she ultimately specialized and became certified in the care of breast cancer patients.
As a lifelong learner, Jeannie has enjoyed her latest endeavor working at IMP with her fellow Nurse Navigators. She provides assistance to patients as well as their loved ones during their cancer journey. Her goal as a Navigator is to provide patients with the tools, emotional support, and education to overcome any healthcare barriers to care. Jeannie enjoys working with the entire care team to ensure patients receive the optimal standard of prostate cancer treatment.
Jennifer Wilson-Ciliento, RN, BSN, is a nurse navigator with Integrated Medical Professionals providing individualized assistance to patients diagnosed with prostate cancer. Mrs. Ciliento has worked extensively within the Urology arena across New York state for over 13 years. She helped to establish the Nurse Navigation program at Integrated Medical Professionals eight years ago and has been an integral part of the growth within the navigation program, providing specialized support to our community. She works closely with newly diagnosed patients, families and the clinical care team, ensuring that our patients have the support needed during the continuum of care.
Lynlee Purdie, RN, BSN is one of the Nurse Navigators with Integrated Medical Professionals. She helps provide individualized assistance to patients with a diagnosis of early-stage prostate cancer.
After earning her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of South Carolina, Lynlee worked in many hospitals across the southeast with her primary focus being Cardiovascular intensive care. Through her 11 years of RN experience, she worked closely alongside physicians and discovered her passion to be a patient advocate. She transitioned to the role of Nurse Navigator a little over two years ago and has never looked back.
She takes great joy in being able to assist patients, their families, and caregivers through this journey. She loves to be able to provide education and emotional support to help improve the patient and family’s experience. As a point of contact, she hopes to help patients overcome barriers in the healthcare system to ensure timely care. Her experience has helped her hone the tools and knowledge to empower patients to make informed decisions throughout their cancer journey.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, two young daughters, and their Great Dane.
Prostate cancer nurse navigator, Therese (Teri) Alaimo, has close to four decades of experience as an R.N. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Adelphi University and spent the first 20 years of her career as a critical care nurse in both cardiothoracic and surgical intensive care hospital settings. Teri entered the field of urological nursing where she spent the next 5 years working in an outpatient lithotripsy and urological procedure center.
Teri joined Integrated Medical Professionals in 2009 and was directly involved with the setup of IMP’s Office Based Procedural Centers and served as nurse manager of these centers until 2012. She then was introduced to prostate cancer clinical trials and served as lead study coordinator until recent times.
Under the direction of the medical director, Teri has been the primary leader of IMP’s prostate cancer immunotherapy program since 2011, working directly with patients facing advanced disease. She currently works closely with advanced prostate cancer patients and their care team to guide and support them and their caregivers through the disease process.
