Nurse (Lung Cancer Screening Coordinator)

Department of Veterans Affairs • Portland, OR

52d • Onsite

About The Position

The Nurse (Lung Cancer Screening Clinical Coordinator) executes position responsibilities that demonstrate expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches in providing complex patient management. Provides patient management, care coordination, and disposition planning for patients. Assists Veterans, family members, and caregivers with receiving the most appropriate options and services to meet their complex health care needs. The Nurse (Lung Cancer Screening Clinical Coordinator) coordinates care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care. Coordination also includes assuring services interface within the Veterans Affairs (VA) and community programs to provide continuity of care to patients.

Responsibilities

• Manages consults for potential lung cancer screening enrollment by performing chart reviews to verify eligibility and appropriateness.
• Conducts shared decision-making interactions with potential lung cancer screening enrollees.
• Organizes and leads in-services to educate and share information about the Lung Cancer Screening Program with clinical staff.
• Facilitates follow-up referrals to evidence-based smoking cessation care.
• Optimizes patient-centered care practices through patient education, care management, screening exams, procedures, and clinical appointments.
• Maintains accountability for following imaging studies and their recommendations.
• Collects and analyzes program data from a variety of sources.
• Provides regular communication and reports as needed to the interdisciplinary team.
• Performs initial and ongoing monitoring and tracking of abnormal images/lung nodules and communicating with providers to ensure that they are alerted to abnormal findings when necessary.
• Addresses psychosocial, as well as nursing and medical needs of patients and their families/caregivers, through participation with the interdisciplinary care team.
• Coordinates and expedites care from diagnosis to treatment.
• Evaluates care and outcomes to ensure timely and appropriate provision of services.
• Advocates for holistic care through patient/family education and provider interaction and implements an educational plan to meet the patient care needs.
• Collects, analyzes, and reports program evaluation data for assessment on the impact of implementing lung cancer screening and to make evidence-based improvements.
• Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.
• Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
• Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals.
• Evaluates outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees