Nurse Navigator

About This Role

This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and navigate outpatient care for patients
• Identify new patients as they are diagnosed and offer navigation services
• Provide initial detailed patient and family needs assessment and periodically update needs assessment throughout the course of treatment
• Develop disease site expertise
• Provide patient and family education
• Connect patients and family with available resources in the health system and community
• Maintain a database of available community resources
• Facilitate access to services
• Track the flow of patients through diagnostic and treatment services
• Document assessment and follow up notes in the patients' medical record
• Provide monthly reports of activity to the Director
• Gather all information required by the Commission on Cancer and formulate a survivorship care plan at the end of treatment for applicable patients
• Distribute and discuss survivorship care plan with the patient and family and other appropriate providers per protocol
• Build and maintain professional relationships with surgeons, other medical physicians and professionals involved in the patients' care
• Establish communication with physicians, physician extenders and their office staff to outline navigation programs and available resources
• Collaborate with the primary provider/surgeon to act as a resource for the patient and family beginning during initial consultation and continuing through treatment
• Collaborate with physicians as well as using positive pathology reports to identify patients for the applicable multidisciplinary care conferences boards
• Ensure that disease sites or general tumor conferences are prepared, promoted and documented, with the goal of prospective treatment planning
• Participate in appropriate committees
• Ensure standards are met
• Ensure compliance with Joint Commission standards and support certification initiatives as requested
• Represent the program's services to the community
• Collaborate with marketing for brochures and other marketing materials
• Provide community organizations with information about services provided and offered to patients
• Participate in community programs relevant to the promotion of the program

Requirements

• Graduate of licensed school of nursing
• RN with at least 5 years of clinical experience in a relevant clinical specialty (surgical nursing and…)

About the Company

At Hackensack Meridian Health, team members are the heart of what makes the company better, helping patients live better, healthier lives and helping one another to succeed. The culture is rooted in connection and collaboration, advancing the mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.