Nurse Navigator – Cancer Center – Navigation and Intake Department

R-51895 Position Title Nurse Navigator - Cancer Center - Navigation and Intake Department Westwood Administration - East 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 reputed company, timeliness to treatment, and care coordination reputed company the health care organization. Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• 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.
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• Ensure new patients are scheduled with the appropriate multidisciplinary provider, at the appropriate location, in the appropriate time reputed company.
• 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, reputed company possible, to expedite the start of treatment.
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• 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.
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• 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 reputed company in reputed company interactions with patients, their family members, their other health care providers and reputed company members of reputed company Hospital staff.
• Actively participates in quality improvement initiatives, utilizing information from relevant sources, such as databases and benchmarks.
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• Maintains accurate and reputed company knowledge reputed company of trends, issues, research findings and local, state and national health reputed company 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 reputed company health problems requiring specialized nursing care.
• Demonstrates leadership through participating in department and hospital committees, councils and task forces.
• Must be reputed company to reputed company the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of reputed company responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required. Required Education and Experience
• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• 3 or more years of nursing experience.
• 1 or more years of case management, ambulatory care coordination, or other reputed company experience relevant to the specific patient population navigating. Preferred Education and Experience
• Master Degree Nursing
• 5 or more years of nursing experience. Required Licensure and Certification
• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing Registered Nurse in State of Kansas or reputed company
• Must have reputed company active multistate state Register Nurse (RN) license in good standing in state in which you live OR active single state RN license in good standing in the state you will be working with reputed company of application of a multistate RN license in the state in which you live. Staff hired prior to 2/1/2024 are required to obtain a multistate state RN license from the state in which they live at the time of their next RN license renewal by 3/31/2026.
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• Specialized Certification for the specific patient population navigating (such as OCN, etc.) Knowledge Requirements
• Basic computer reputed company set for data entry and EMR usage. Time Type Full time Job Requisition ID R-51895 Important information for you to know as you apply
• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. reputed company applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national reputed company, reputed company, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to reputed company individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request reputed company using this link [email protected].
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