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Position Summary / Career Interest:
The nurse navigator is a licensed registered professional nurse who is a clinical expert and actively promotes the delivery of evidence-based nursing interventions. The navigator has expertise in a specialty nursing area and/or specific patient populations. The navigator role crosses care settings to promote health and healing for a specific patient population. The primary focus of the role is to improve access, timeliness to treatment, and care coordination within the health care organization.
Responsibilities:
- Assess needs for new patients referred to a specialist prior to their first visit to identify the need for support services or other resources.
- Demonstrates thorough documentation of patient assessment and interventions completed in the electronic medical record.
- Refer new patients to the specialty program’s supportive services based on the navigation needs assessment.
- Provide educational and emotional support throughout the intake and treatment planning process, and then remain a resource for the patient throughout their course of care.
- Ensure new patients are scheduled with the appropriate multidisciplinary provider, at the appropriate location, in the appropriate time frame.
- Collaborate with intake scheduler to ensure necessary medical information is complete and available for the patient’s first appointment, including imaging and pathology slides, if applicable.
- Assist in coordinating needed diagnostic studies prior to first visit, when possible, to expedite the start of treatment.
- Develop relationships with referring physicians and ensure follow up and treatment plan is communicated.
- Complete intake logs and report monthly to program manager for outcome metric reporting.
- Demonstrates competence in the areas of critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.
- Demonstrates the ability to provide care/service safely and efficiently for the each patient.
- Serves as a liaison and resource for patients, physicians, and other health care professionals involved in the provision of care for the patient.
- Assists in the development of clinical goals and objectives for the Nurse Navigation Program in collaboration with the Nurse Manager.
- Supports and promotes the principles of service excellence in all interactions with patients, their family members, their other health care providers and all members of The University of Kansas Hospital staff.
- Actively participates in quality improvement initiatives, utilizing information from relevant sources, such as databases and benchmarks.
- Participates in the efficient, economic, and competent performance of The University of Kansas Hospital.
- Maintains accurate and current knowledge base of trends, issues, research findings and local, state and national health related resources and services for the patient population navigation services are being provided.
- Acts as a consultant to other members of the nursing and clinical staff for patients with complex health problems requiring specialized nursing care.
- Demonstrates leadership through participating in department and hospital committees, councils and task forces.
- Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
- Note: These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
- Registered Nurse in Kansas
- BLS Certification or obtained within 14 days of hire.
- 3-5 years Nursing Experience
- 1-2 years of case management, ambulatory care coordination, or other related experience relevant to the specific patient population navigating
- Basic computer skill set for data entry and EMR usage
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As a condition of your employment and continued employment with the health system, you are required to secure a Nurse Compact License (NCL) within 60 days of your date of hire. This will enable you to perform your job duties not only in Kansas, but other compact states. You will be responsible for any expenses you incur in securing this license, and must provide your manager with evidence of this license before the sixty-day period expires. If you fail to secure the NCL as required, you will be immediately removed from the work schedule and placed on an unpaid administrative leave, until we can understand the reasons for your non-compliance. Further failure to comply with the licensing requirement will result in your end of employment with the health system.
Preferred:
- Master’s Degree in Nursing
- Greater than 5 years of nursing experience
- Specialized Certification for the specific patient population navigating (such as OCN, etc.)
Time Type:
Full time
Job Requisition ID:
R-26693
We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.
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