Nurse Navigator (RN) - Nephrology

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation•Wake Forest, NC

12h

About The Position

The Nurse Navigator (RN) in Nephrology provides continuity of care by facilitating smooth transitions between care settings and helping patients and families navigate diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. The role builds relationships with patients and their multidisciplinary care teams, completes nursing assessments, and collaborates with other professionals and departments to develop individualized interdisciplinary plans of care. The Nurse Navigator supports patients and families through education, advocacy, psychosocial support, continuity of care, and identification of barriers. The role coordinates timely, seamless, evidence-based care; advises the multidisciplinary team on collaborative teaching plans, patient and family education, and discharge planning; and evaluates, selects, or designs disease-specific educational materials. It also provides education and outreach to patients, Advocate staff, and community members, assists leadership with program vision and goals, and contributes to quality programs that promote best-practice outcomes, quality of life, and patient loyalty. The position requires providing care appropriate to patients’ ages and developmental needs in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.

Requirements

Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
Typically requires 5 years of nursing experience, including nursing assessments, care plan development, and patient education.
Working knowledge of quality components and acute patient care needs.
Ability to maintain clinical expertise in managing patients’ physical, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual needs throughout the care continuum.
Excellent analytical and interpersonal communication skills to negotiate with families, patients, physicians, and third-party payers.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively and positively with physicians and other professionals.
Knowledge of growth and development across the life span and ability to assess and interpret information to provide age-specific care.

Responsibilities

Ensure smooth transitions between care settings and continuity of care.
Build relationships with patients and multidisciplinary teams to facilitate treatment and follow-up.
Complete nursing assessments and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and other departments on individualized interdisciplinary plans of care.
Support patients and families through education, psychosocial support, advocacy, continuity of care, and identification of barriers to care.
Navigate patients and family members throughout diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up across the continuum of care.
Provide clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team on collaborative teaching plans, patient and family education, and discharge planning, including wellness and health maintenance within the specialty.
Coordinate timely, seamless, evidence-based care across the care continuum.
Evaluate, select, or design patient education materials for specific disease-site programs.
Provide education and outreach programs to patients, Advocate staff, and community members.
Assist leadership in developing program vision, goals, and objectives.
Assist with developing, implementing, and maintaining quality programs focused on best-practice patient outcomes, quality of life, and patient loyalty.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills to provide age-appropriate care, assess patient status, interpret relevant information, and address age-specific needs according to departmental policies and procedures.
Perform other related duties as required.