What are the responsibilities and job description for the Navigator RN position at CommonSpirit Health?
*Job Summary and Responsibilities*
As a Navigator RN, you will provide expert nursing guidance and support to patients as they navigate complex healthcare journeys. Every day you will assess patient needs, educate on treatment options, coordinate care across multiple providers, and facilitate access to resources, acting as a central point of contact.
Required
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. Our team’s efforts have led to the creation of many research programs and initiatives to develop advanced treatments found nowhere else in the world. In our commitment to advancing standards in an ever-evolving healthcare environment, our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education. Our strong alliance with Texas Heart® Institute and Baylor College of Medicine allows us to bring our patients a powerful network of care unlike any other. Our collaboration is focused on increasing access to care through a growing network of leading specialists and revolutionizing healthcare to save lives and improve the health of the communities we serve.
*Pay Range*
$32.38 - $48.17 /hour
As a Navigator RN, you will provide expert nursing guidance and support to patients as they navigate complex healthcare journeys. Every day you will assess patient needs, educate on treatment options, coordinate care across multiple providers, and facilitate access to resources, acting as a central point of contact.
- Performs case finding to ensure maximum number of patients are contacted during high stress points
- Introduces the navigation services with intent to coordinate care, decrease potential barriers to care, and to assess potential additional resources to support needs of the patient or family
- Initiates contact with all newly identified patients via face to face meeting, telephone, e‐mail, or mail as soon possible, and completes the patient needs assessment within the required timeframe of initial patient contact
- Educates patients/family on disease specifics, processes, and treatment options or appropriate clinical trials to enable patient‐led treatment decisions
- Establishes and Coordinates a supportive care plan with goals and interventions based upon treatment and individual patient/caregiver needs, preferences, beliefs, and values; and up‐ dates the plan as changes occur
- Throughout the care continuum, identifies, advocates, and Coordinates patient access to community support services and System’s resources based upon identified recommendations from the healthcare team, patient needs, and/or insurance coverage
Required
- Bachelors Of Nursing Bachelor's Degree ‐ Nursing
- Three (3) years of patient care experience in the applied area and experience in program development
- Registered Nurse: TX
- Basic Life Support - AHA
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. Our team’s efforts have led to the creation of many research programs and initiatives to develop advanced treatments found nowhere else in the world. In our commitment to advancing standards in an ever-evolving healthcare environment, our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education. Our strong alliance with Texas Heart® Institute and Baylor College of Medicine allows us to bring our patients a powerful network of care unlike any other. Our collaboration is focused on increasing access to care through a growing network of leading specialists and revolutionizing healthcare to save lives and improve the health of the communities we serve.
*Pay Range*
$32.38 - $48.17 /hour
Salary : $32 - $48