Pediatric Palliative Nurse Navigator

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

About the role

The Palliative Nurse Navigator collaborates with palliative care providers/clinicians to deliver quality and specialty palliative care to patients and their loved ones. This care includes ongoing assessment of patient and family needs across the 8 domains of palliative care and connecting patients and families to available resources within the health system and in the community.

Responsibilities

• Navigation: Coordinates and navigates palliative care for patients. Facilitates access to palliative care services in HMH. Identifies new outpatients as they are diagnosed with a serious illness and provides patient and family palliative education. Connects patients and family with available resources in the health system and community.
• Palliative Care Plan: Participates in palliative encounters; provides initial patient needs assessment. Facilitates patient’s advance care planning discussions. Completes controlled substance prior authorizations when needed. Facilitates telephone encounters to assess symptoms, palliative medication modifications, transitions of care, provides education and emotional support. Documents assessment and follow-up, and any encounter notes in the patients’ medical record.
• Relationships: Builds and maintains professional relationships with health care professionals and provides them education regarding outpatient palliative care services. Collaborates with the referring provider/practice to act as a resource for the patient and family during initial or follow-up palliative encounters and provides continuity of care.
• Quality: Participates in appropriate committees/councils. Tracks the flow of patients through palliative care services across the continuum of care. Assists with reviewing reports of activity to the clinical leader. Ensures compliance with Joint Commission standards and supports certification initiatives as requested.
• Palliative Care Conferences: Collaborates with the palliative care team to transition patients from other care settings to the outpatient palliative clinic and across various settings. Identifies patients for the applicable palliative sub-specialty clinics or other palliative services.
• Education: Represents palliative services. Provides community organizations with information about palliative services provided and offered to patients. May participate in community health fairs, meetings, or programs relevant to the promotion of the program. Provides education on palliative care for various team members, orientation, and nursing education, as indicated.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned. Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Requirements

• Graduate of licensed school of nursing; RN with at least 5 years of clinical experience in a relevant clinical specialty.
• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.
• Proficient computer skills—proficiency in Google, Microsoft, EPIC.
• Strong organizational, time management, critical thinking RN skills.
• Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in interactions with providers, clinicians, patients, and their families.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• BSN
• Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse.

Pay

Minimum rate of $113,609.60 Annually

The posted rate of pay is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package. The starting rate of pay is provided for informational purposes only and is not a guarantee of a specific offer. Posted rates may vary based on labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Retirement benefits
• Performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions (for eligible positions)
• Shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts (for eligible positions)