Background:
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) established guidelines aiming to provide access and universal health coverage, through recommendations incorporating nursing models to support the development and strengthening of the different health systems¹

Case Presentation:
The nurse navigator in oncology works direct and jointly with people, ensuring that each patient receives proper information and education related with the prescribed treatments, and that the given instructions guide the patient to the circuit of care that each person requires trough the pathways of cancer treatment. To achieve this, we have worked on implementing a nurse navigator model, based on the expertise of a practice nurse to optimize access to clinical trials for people with oncological malignancies.

Discussion:
The nurse navigator intervention was applied to 326 adults in the context of clinical trial cancer patients. The average age was 62 years, and the most frequent sex was male.

The information collected showed that the follow-up of the navigator optimizes patient care times, while early and continuous education decreases the perception of patient’s anxiety in the therapeutic indication.

Conclusion:
The role of the advanced practice nurse is relevant for the cancer patient’s experience and traceability, using a model such as the nurse navigator since the earliest steps of the clinical research processes. More research is required to determine whether this tool increases the access or dissemination of clinical studies. This Chilean model in research in cancer is pioneer in Latin America.