Nurse Navigator - Breast Center - 8 Hour Days

Cedars-Sinai • Los Angeles, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The path through breast cancer care is different for everyone. Cedars-Sinai has assembled a team of experienced experts dedicated to fulfilling our patients’ unique needs. The breast cancer program offers care for high-risk patients, nurse navigators, fertility preservation, and research and clinical trials found only at Cedars-Sinai. We are seeking a highly compassionate Nurse Navigator with strong clinical competencies to guide patients from the diagnosis and pre-op to post-op stages of their treatment.

Requirements

• Strong clinical competencies
• Compassionate
• Ability to guide patients from diagnosis and pre-op to post-op stages of treatment

Responsibilities

• Coordinate timely patient care activities and management of clinical data throughout all phases of patient care from initial referral to follow-up.
• Arranges for clinical services, evaluates clinical data, participates in clinical/ patient rounds, and triages clinical questions/ concerns to the appropriate members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Assess educational needs in collaboration with all levels of nursing and medical personnel and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of educational programs, utilizing a systematic approach.
• Collaborates throughout the Cedars-Sinai Health system (CSHS) in initiating and implementing educational programs.
• Establishes, coordinates and continuously evaluates supportive care plan with goals and interventions based upon treatment and individual patient/caregiver needs, preferences, beliefs and values.
• Independently coordinates patient programs, projects and events with Nursing, medical center departments and communities across the health care continuum.
• Serves as a resource and consultant for educational programs throughout the Cedars-Sinai Health System.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level