Alzheimer's Nurse Navigator (RN)

Job Summary

The Nurse Navigator (NN) is a licensed registered nurse with disease-specific clinical knowledge who offers individualized assistance to patients, families, and caregivers to help overcome barriers to care. Utilizing the nursing process, a nurse navigator provides education and resources to facilitate informed decision making and timely access to quality health and psychosocial care throughout all phases of the cancer continuum. This role is both patient and provider facing with the ability to interface both in person, telephonically, and electronically though it is not a bed/chair side position. The primary functions of this role are to promote timely access to care and compliance to the plan of care.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Serves as subject matter expert in the field of navigation.
• Improves patient care timeliness and access to care.
• Collaborates with program leaders and administration to perform and evaluate data from the community needs assessment to identify areas of improvement that will affect the patient navigation process and program.
• Provides relationship-based patient centered care that is consistent with population specific characteristics (e.g. age, gender, disease, etc).
• Participates in growth and development activities with the navigation team.
• Collaborates with overall navigation team for cross coverage and subject matter expertise to coordinate high level care for all patients.
• Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of evidence based practice.
• Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model.
• Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible.
• Participates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders.
• Coordinate care as recommended at specialty clinics and multidisciplinary care rounds within the scope of the nurse navigator.
• Completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, and population specific education.
• Serves as a preceptor and/or mentor for other professional nurses.
• Takes initiative to be apprised of advances and developments that impact care of the individual with cancer.
• Upholds all health care system/organizational policies and procedures and navigation competencies.
• Participates in data collection, poses relevant clinical questions to advanced evidence based practice.
• Supports efficient and effective use of human and material resources.

Required Minimum Education

• Bachelors Nursing or Accredited Program Nursing or Masters Nursing-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s)

• RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact
• BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor

Additional License(s) and Certification(s)

Nationally recognized certification in disease specific area for nurses - Must achieve certification within 1 year from start date.

Required Minimum Experience

• Minimum 5 years nursing practice Required
• Minimum 2 years nursing with disease specific experience Required
• Outpatient care or care coordination experience Preferred

Required Minimum Skills

• Ability to function in a fast paced environment
• Can respond to emergencies in using a decisive, composed and respectful manner
• Possesses excellent time management skills
• Practices nursing using evidence and analytical skills
• Possesses strong critical thinking skills