RN Lung Cancer Navigator

LCMC Health•New Orleans, LA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Your job is more than a job. You’re the life preserver for countless patients because, as a Patient Navigator Nurse, you’re the hub of your patients’ multidisciplinary team advocating, interpreting, coordinating, educating, supporting, and counseling along their care journey. As a clinical resource with expertise in specialty care management, you are that critical connection and liaison for a patient population recovering from strokes, cancer, and long-term illnesses. You remain positive, upbeat and dedicated to assuring quality and focusing on achieving the best possible outcomes for your patients. You are the center of their universe and their rock, but you wouldn’t have it any other way. You give new meaning to a 9 to 5 schedule because caring doesn’t stop just because you’ve punched a clock. If it were your loved one, you’d expect nothing less, so you give so much more. We love that about you. Your experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and your “little something extra” all add up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this patient navigator nursing role.

Requirements

Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana and as defined by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
Amercian Heart Association BLS certification.
3 years of professional nursing experience in specialty area.

Responsibilities

Coordinate written and verbal communication relating to the medical treatment plan between the patient, family, physician, physician staff, and other team members.
Communicate and coordinate the treatment plan to internal and external departments and agencies, establishing and maintaining the continuity of patient care.
Assist patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, and the resources available.
Review the medical documentation to assist the physicians in obtaining complete and accurate documentation of their medical treatment plan.
Serve as an essential link between patients and all other care providers.
Follow patients throughout the care continuum collaborating with care management resources and facilitating appointments for consults and support services including social workers, PT, OT, ST, dietitians, physicians, financial resources, etc.
Collect data, track outcomes, and support strategic planning processes.
Demonstrates the knowledge, skill, and coordination to provide nursing care and guidance from screening to survivorship by planning, implementing, and evaluating patient’s care.
Assist patients and their family members in search of solutions, treatment-related problems, education to facilitate seamless care and support patients with difficult decisions.
Perform ongoing review of policies related to service provided where appropriate and update policies to enhance professional practice.
Serve as a resource for community educational events such as health fairs, screenings, symposiums, and lectures as well as staff education.