Registered Nurse (RN) Navigator - OB, Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic
About The Position
The RN Navigator has specialized clinical knowledge to provide individualized support across the care continuum to patients, families, and caregivers. Typically working within a complex medical and/or surgical specialty (e.g., Oncology, Heart and Vascular, Bariatric), the RN Navigator coordinates care from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up of a specific treatment modality, ensuring seamless transitions and addressing barriers to care. The RN Navigator guides patients through evidence-based clinical care pathways individualized to their unique treatment plan, physiology, and disease progression. The RN Navigator identifies and addresses barriers to care, steering patients through the complex healthcare system to improve outcomes. This job profile integrates the ANA Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements the AAACN Scope & Standards of Practice for Professional Ambulatory Care Nursing and the AAACN Scope and Standards of Practice for Registered Nurses in Care Coordination and Transition Management, with the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited nursing program.
- Experience: 1 year of registered nursing experience required, 3 years of related and relevant registered nursing experience strongly preferred.
- Licensure/Certification: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification is required. Specialty Board Certification strongly preferred.
Nice To Haves
- 3 years of related and relevant registered nursing experience strongly preferred.
- Specialty Board Certification strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrates the use of the UVA Professional Practice Model through professional nursing practice, quality achievement, lifelong learning, empowered leaders, innovation, and expert caring.
- Manages complex care and high-risk patient populations, alleviating barriers to care.
- Triages new patient referrals and assesses patient needs, goals, and preferences, integrating them into the care plan.
- Coordinates multidisciplinary care and expedites timely access to treatments, including diagnostic testing, surgery, and follow-up care.
- Serves as a clinical advocate, educator, and liaison between patients, families, and healthcare providers.
- Provides culturally competent education on diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and posttreatment care.
- Facilitates communication between care teams and support participation in therapeutic clinical trials.
- Works with multidisciplinary team to identify programmatic and quality initiatives, tracking and monitoring outcomes related to the care pathway.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings
- Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and education support
- Generous Paid Time Off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
