Nurse Navigator - Outpatient Oncology

Job description

Employment Type: Full time Shift: Day Shift Description: The Nurse Navigator is accountable for facilitation and management of care coordination across the healthcare continuum for a designated population. Serves the advanced nursing needs of stroke patients across the continuum by providing direction for patient care and individualized education for patients and family. Acts as a patient advocate and link to community resources. Provides post-discharge care coordination. Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings. Develops a relationship with the patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care. Performs post-discharge follow-up on identified patient population at defined intervals. Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care, and identifying barriers to care. Navigates patients and family members throughout the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of a patient throughout the continuum of care. Attends diseasespecific support group and assists program coordinator with...