Inside the Cancer Registrar’s Mind

The cancer registrar’s thinking ability is a remarkable gift that allows them to accomplish great things in their work and personal lives.  While the human mind is a one-of-a-kind problem solver, it is also eager to provide the cancer registrar with the answer to any question or a solution for any challenge.  Here’s how …

As soon as the registrar forwards a question to their mind, their brain goes to work analyzing and calculating.  It searches its memory files for relevant information.  It rapidly picks out patterns, similarities and trends while it concurrently builds a resource library of related data.

This analytical thinking ability can be used for just about anything and can serve the registrar well as they develop partnerships in their health care organizations.  Whenever they make plans for cancer conference, cancer committee, the annual report, or their next quality study, their mind will jump into analytical mode.  Essentially, the cancer registrar’s mind becomes an efficiency expert, much like a heat-seeking missile, that is looking for ways to make improvements. 

Cancer Registrars need to understand, develop, use and even protect their analytical thinking abilities.  It is their tireless and ever-ready toolkit that is revving its engines, ready to instantly take off to face a challenge or solve a problem.  This ability is powerful when used in collaboration with their organization’s vision and goals or when exploring trends in cancer data that require study to better serve the needs of patients. 

This is just the tip of the iceberg!  In future blog posts we’ll talk about other aspects of the cancer registrar’s analytical mind that will help them communicate more effectively and freely.

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http://RegistryMindset.com/.  Michele Webb, America’s Cancer Registry Coach, is a nationally recognized, certified cancer registrar (CTR). She cares passionately about her work and enjoys helping others to become cancer registrars and grow professionally. She is a motivational speaker, published author, trainer and netpreneur in the exciting field of cancer registry and oncology healthcare.  Copyright 2010, Michele A. Webb, All Rights Reserved.