Nurse Navigator Oncology

About the role

This role is a professional RN with service line specific clinical knowledge who offers individualized assistance across the care continuum to patients, families, and caregivers to expedite and coordinate care, and address health system barriers. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of patient care through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve optimal patient outcomes with a focus on high-risk patients or those with complex care needs (including multidisciplinary care).

Responsibilities

• Affords communication, advocacy, and education in a culturally competent manner.
• Clinically triages new patient referrals efficiently, to ensure timely access to care.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary care team and expedite sequence of patient's workup, active treatment, survivorship, and end of life care.
• Provides communication and reinforcement of clinical information and serve as a conduit between patient and providers/clinicians to address needs of patients.
• Performs targeted symptom assessment and management for identified patient population.
• Affords assessment and documentation of patient's needs, goals, and preferences and work to ensure such are integrated into treatment and care delivery.
• Bridges gaps in care and assesses/troubleshoots care transitions and barriers to care.
• Documents all patient encounters in EPIC.
• Affords assistance with staff education, preceptorship, patient education, and participates in process improvement initiatives.
• Participates in all service line team meetings.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Current Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which services will be provided or current multi-state Registered Nurse license through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• Obtain certification in Basic Life Support within 30 days of hire date.
• Experience: Three (3) years of nursing experience.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

The statements described here are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be constructed as an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities and duties. Other duties may be assigned.

• Affords and facilitates coordination of multidisciplinary care across the care continuum.
• Affords communication, advocacy, and education in a culturally competent manner.
• Affords clinical triage of new patient referrals efficiently, to ensure timely access to care.
• Affords collaboration with multidisciplinary care team and expedite sequence of patient's workup, active treatment, survivorship, and end of life care.
• Affords communication and reinforcement of clinical information and serves as a conduit between patient and providers/clinicians to address needs of patients.
• Affords targeted symptom assessment and management for identified patient population.
• Affords assessment and documentation of patient's needs, goals, and preferences and work to ensure such are integrated into treatment and care delivery.
• Affords assessment and troubleshooting of care transitions and barriers to care.
• Affords documentation of all patient encounters in EPIC.
• Affords assistance with staff education, preceptorship, patient education, and participates in process improvement initiatives.
• Affords participation in all service line team meetings.

Physical Requirements

Frequent walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping are necessary body movements utilized in performing duties through the work shift. Ability to sit for extended periods of time. Assists with mobility impaired patients.

Working Environment

Standard office environment. Multiple different clinic offices and ancillary testing departments.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to handle and maintain confidential information.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as strong organizational and motivational skills.
• Must be flexible and organized.
• Professionalism is required.