RN Care Nurse Navigator - Home Health/Hospice

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Charlotte, NC

22d • Remote

About The Position

This is a full-time remote position for an RN Care Nurse Navigator specializing in Home Health and Hospice. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and typically 5 years of nursing experience, including assessments, care plan development, and patient education. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of hospice experience and possess nursing licenses for NC, WI, and IL. The position involves providing continuity of care, developing interdisciplinary care plans, supporting patients and families, and navigating them through their treatment journey. The nurse will also provide clinical advice, coordinate care across the continuum, and develop patient education materials. Additionally, the role involves assisting leadership in program development and quality initiatives. The position requires the ability to demonstrate age-specific knowledge and skills in patient care.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• Typically requires 5 years of experience in nursing that includes performing nursing assessments, care plan development, and educating patients.
• Working knowledge of the components of quality and acute patient care needs.
• Maintains clinical expertise to effectively manage physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients throughout the care continuum.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal communication skills necessary to negotiate with families, patient, physicians, and third-party payers.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with physicians and other professionals in a direct and positive manner.
• Minimal 3 years hospice experience
• Nursing license for NC, WI, IL

Nice To Haves

• Home health and hospice experience

Responsibilities

• Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings.
• Develops a relationship with patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care.
• Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patient's individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care and identifying barriers to care.
• Navigates patients and family members throughout the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care.
• Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty.
• Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in best patient outcomes.
• Evaluates, selects or designs patient education materials on specific disease site programs.
• Provides education and outreach programs to patients, Advocate staff and to members of the community.
• Assist leadership in developing program vision, goals and objectives.
• Assists in the development, implementation and maintenance of quality programs that include best practice patient care outcomes including quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Generous retirement offerings
• Programs that invest in your career development
• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

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