Nurse Navigator

Responsibilities

• Provides support and expertise through comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and overall evaluation of individual patient needs.
• Accountable for management of barriers to timely care, care coordination and discharge planning of all disease site specific navigated patients.
• Facilitates the tumor board (TB) experience and communicates with the TB director to ensure a TB note is documented for each case presented.
• Collaborates with social services, financial counselors, and supportive care resources to integrate into patient care, discharge, home planning processes, external service organizations, agencies and health care facilities.
• Offers education and guidance surrounding the treatment plan, care team, and resources available to the patient and family.
• Navigates patients through the diagnostic evaluation, educates and supports each patient empowering them to make informed treatment decisions.
• Communicates with physicians, advanced practice providers and entire team at regular intervals and develops effective working relationships.
• Affords support as a patient advocate; investigates and reports adverse occurrences; measures, documents and reports on quality, clinical, and system improvement metrics associated with the disease site navigated population.
• Maintains outcome driven analysis for disease site data reporting and presentation.
• Aids in reviewing appropriate utilization of services from admission through discharge; ensures that patient tests are appropriate and necessary, completed within the established time frame and that results are promptly available.
• Performs staff education related to resource utilization, barrier management, discharge planning and psychosocial aspects of health care delivery.
• Complements patient education, provided by faculty and staff, related to disease pathology and treatment plan.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Knowledge as Registered Nurse in a clinical care setting.
• IntermediateGood interpersonal skills.
• IntermediateUtilizes influencing/motivational interviewing skills.
• AdvancedAbility to coordinate, analyze, observe, make decisions, and meet deadlines in a detail-oriented manner.
• AdvancedAbility to work independently without supervision.
• AdvancedEffective computer skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and database software.

Required Skills

• Three (3) years of nursing experience in a clinic or hospital setting is required.