Registered Nurse (RN) Oncology Navigator

Lifepoint Health • Hickory, NC

9h • Onsite

About The Position

The Nurse Oncology Navigator provides individualized assistance to tumor site-specific patients and their families in overcoming barriers to care, facilitating timely access to care, and providing education and support. The cancer patient’s trajectory through diagnosis, treatment, and aftercare survivorship will be seamless and coordinated in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team. Nurses in this unit benefit from a collaborative team culture, and the opportunity to gain diverse clinical experience.

Requirements

• Active North Carolina RN license (single-state) or compact required. If relocating, licensure must be updated to the new Primary State of Residence (PSOR) before employment begins.
• Basic Life Support certification is required within 30 days of hire.
• Three or more years of RN Oncology experience required.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
• Oncology Certified Nurse (OCN) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to coordinate patient care.
• Educates patients and their caregivers on the disease process, treatment, side effect profile, and survivorship.
• Coordinates referrals both with Frye and within the region.
• Provides emotional support related to the clinical condition.
• Advocates for patients and caregivers for appropriate utilization of resources.
• Implements and measures quality improvement initiatives.
• Communicates consistently with providers, ensuring a seamless plan of care as well as follow-up care.
• Patient assessment and identification of patient-specific needs, identifying barriers and having the knowledge base to overcome these barriers, locating resources, coordinating services, providing education on treatment side effects, and developing structured means for patients to report.
• Follow patients through the continuum of care, including inpatient admissions, and collaborate with inpatient care management resources.
• Serves as primary contact and advocate for the patient; builds and maintains the trust of the patient and family, provides emotional support, navigates the healthcare system using knowledge of the intricacies of each system, and serves as the patient advocate, assuring timely access to care.
• Serves as a point of contact for providers.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team, creating open communication with the treating physician, the primary care physician, and their support staff.
• Establishes a referral pathway, thereby decreasing delays in treatment by working collaboratively with the oncology team to maintain a network of physician support of best practices and the delivery of care.
• Serves as an active member of the Cancer Committee and participates in tumor board conferences.
• Works well with the Cancer Registry staff and others to collect data, track outcomes, and support the strategic planning process.
• Maintains accurate and complete documentation and ongoing assessments of the role in decreasing disparities in care.

Benefits

• Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree