RN Navigator - Cardiology

Pay

Salary range: $48.52 – $72.78 per hour (rate dependent on education, training, experience, collective bargaining agreement, seniority, and other factors).

Schedule

Full‑time, 1.00 FTE, Day shift position.

Job Summary

Responsible for coordinating patient cases for specific departments or service lines. In collaboration with the Medical Director(s), referring physicians, and interdisciplinary teams, the RN Navigator coordinates disease‑specific multidisciplinary conferences, specialty consultations, and provides care as needed for patients and their families, utilizing resources efficiently and effectively. Acts as the primary point of contact for service‑line patients and oversees service‑line educational activities, program evaluation, and outcomes research.

Responsibilities

• Patient and Family Liaison: Serve as the single point of contact for patients and families, providing telephone triage, explaining diagnoses and treatment options, scheduling follow‑up appointments, delivering discharge instructions, and conducting post‑surgery phone calls to evaluate progress.
• Clinical Liaison: Notify surgeons and surgical teams of critical patients requiring standby preparation, coordinate discharge planning with dietary, cardiac rehab, pharmacy, home health, and other disciplines, monitor inpatient length of stay, reconcile medications, and prepare discharge instructions.
• Clinical Review: Develop and maintain clinical guidelines, policies, and protocols; make rounds on surgical cases; collaborate with staff nurses, review labs, document progress notes, report abnormal findings, and perform chart reviews and data collection for state and other reporting entities.
• Educator: Create patient and clinician education programs and tools, reinforce education, direct patients/families to resources, collaborate with nursing education on competencies, facilitate bimonthly classes for service‑line patients, and provide pre‑operative teaching for “add‑on” inpatient cases.
• Care Coordination: Ensure patients receive understandable, feasible treatment plans; schedule tests, pre‑surgical procedures, specialty appointments, and referrals; follow patients throughout the continuum of care; assess clinical, emotional, spiritual, psychosocial, and financial needs; coordinate multidisciplinary planning conferences; develop concise patient summaries; collaborate with the heart‑failure team; guide service‑line program growth; facilitate quality‑improvement initiatives and metric development; and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Accredited School of Nursing required; Bachelor’s Degree required; Preferred: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or Master’s Degree.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years nursing experience, including at least 3 years caring for cardiovascular patients in acute or outpatient settings (e.g., Cath Lab, CVICU, EP, cardiac step‑down, ambulatory cardiology). Preferred: management and/or program‑development experience.
• Credentials: Registered Nurse (RN) license in Washington and Oregon upon hire (must be able to obtain Alaska licensure if requested); Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required upon hire.
• Required Skills: Ability to work independently in a self‑directed environment; effective written and verbal communication; proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office; insight into interdisciplinary team roles and responsibilities; ability to identify, collect, and interpret quality data.

Working Conditions

• Lifting patient handling up to 35 lb without assistive equipment; push/pull forces frequently up to 45 lb; occasional CPR requiring 20‑minute effort with 100‑125 lb of force.
• Frequent sitting, bending, stooping, squatting, reaching, and kneeling; occasional lifting of non‑patient items up to 20 lb (frequent 5 lb).
• Exposure to biohazards, body fluids, and airborne particles; work may occur in noisy environments.
• Vision and hearing within normal limits (glasses, contacts, hearing aids permitted); ability to communicate accurate information.

Benefits

PeaceHealth offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 403(b) retirement plan with employer contributions and matching; paid time off; employer‑paid life and disability insurance with optional buy‑up coverage; tuition and continuing‑education reimbursement; wellness benefits; and an expanded Employee Assistance Program and mental‑health program.