Nurse Navigator (RN) - Nephrology

Advocate Health • Winston-Salem, NC

2d • $41 - $62

About The Position

The Nurse Navigator (RN) in Nephrology provides continuity of care by helping patients transition smoothly between care settings and navigating their diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. The nurse works with patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams to coordinate individualized care, education, advocacy, and follow-up throughout the care continuum.

The role includes assessing patient needs, collaborating on interdisciplinary care plans, coordinating evidence-based care, and supporting patient and family education and discharge planning. The Nurse Navigator also contributes to patient education and outreach, quality programs, and program development, with a focus on patient outcomes, quality of life, and patient loyalty. Care must be appropriate to each patient's age-specific needs and stage of development.

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.
• Clinical expertise to manage 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 lifespan and ability to assess and interpret patient information to identify age-specific needs and provide appropriate care.

Responsibilities

• Ensure smooth transitions between care settings and continuity of care through treatment and follow-up.
• Build relationships with patients and multidisciplinary teams to facilitate and navigate subsequent treatment and follow-up.
• Complete nursing assessments to identify individualized patient needs and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and other departments to develop interdisciplinary care plans.
• Support patients and families through education, psychosocial support, advocacy, continuity of care, and identification of barriers to care.
• Navigate patients and family members through diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up across the continuum of care.
• Provide clinical expertise to multidisciplinary teams in developing collaborative teaching plans and programs, patient and family education, and discharge planning, including wellness and health maintenance.
• Coordinate timely, seamless, evidence-based care across the care continuum to support optimal patient outcomes.
• 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 in developing, implementing, and maintaining quality programs focused on best-practice patient care outcomes, quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty.
• Provide care appropriate to the ages and developmental needs of patients served.

Benefits

• Paid time off programs.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
• Adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
• Educational Assistance Program.
• Career development programs.
• Well-being programs.
• Premium pay, such as shift and on-call pay, based on the teammate's job.
• Incentive pay for select positions.
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance.

What This Job Offers

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