Nurse Navigator (RN) - Nephrology

Department: WFBMG University Group Practice – WFBMC Main Nephrology. Full-time, benefits-eligible, 40 hours per week.

Schedule

Monday–Friday, daytime hours.

Pay

$41.10 – $61.65 per hour.

Responsibilities

• Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings.
• Develops relationships with patients and their multidisciplinary teams to facilitate and navigate subsequent treatment and follow-up.
• Completes nursing assessments to identify individualized patient needs and collaborates with the multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Supports patients and families through education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocacy, continuity of care, and identifying barriers to care.
• Navigates patients and families throughout diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up across the care continuum.
• Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning, including wellness and health maintenance within the designated specialty.
• Coordinates timely, seamless, evidence-based care across the care continuum to achieve best patient outcomes.
• Evaluates, selects, or designs patient education materials for specific disease-site programs; provides education and outreach to patients, Advocate staff, and community members.
• Assists leadership in developing program vision, goals, and objectives; assists in developing, implementing, and maintaining quality programs that include best-practice patient care outcomes, quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide age-appropriate care; applies principles of growth and development across the lifespan to assess data, interpret age-specific needs, and deliver care per departmental policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
• Typically requires 5 years of nursing experience including nursing assessments, care plan development, and patient education.

Skills

• Working knowledge of quality components and acute patient care needs.
• Maintains clinical expertise to effectively manage physical, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients throughout the care continuum.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal communication skills for negotiating with families, patients, physicians, and third-party payers.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and positively with physicians and other professionals.

Benefits

• Base compensation within the listed pay range based on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training.
• Premium pay (shift, on-call, etc.) based on job role.
• Incentive pay for select positions.
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance.
• Paid Time Off programs.
• Health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
• Family benefits: adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
• Educational Assistance Program.

Eligibility for programs may depend on FTE or status (full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); confirm details with a recruiter during the interview.

About the organization

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, formed from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. It provides care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health serves nearly 6 million patients, engages in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies with Wake Forest University School of Medicine as its academic core, and is nationally recognized for expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics, rehabilitation, organ transplants, burn treatments, and specialized musculoskeletal programs. The system employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs, and provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.