Nurse Navigator- Head and Neck, surgical oncology - Full-time / Part-time

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At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

The nurse navigator in collaboration with the surgeons and/or providers and the entire healthcare team navigates the care for patients including but not limited to: ongoing assessment of patient and family needs including educational, financial, psychosocial, nutritional, and clinical; connecting patients and families to available resources within the health system and in the community, assessing patients for eligibility for clinical trials and facilitates access to care.

A day in the life of a Nurse Navigator at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

NAVIGATION 

• Coordinates and navigates outpatient care for patients.
• Identifies new patients as they are diagnosed and offers navigation services.
• Provides initial detailed patient and family needs assessment and periodically updates needs assessment throughout the course of treatment.
• Develops disease site expertise. Provides patient and family education.
• Connects patients and family with available resources in the health system and community.
• Maintains a database of available community resources. Facilitates access to services.
• Tracks the flow of patients through diagnostic and treatment services.
• Documents assessment and follow up notes in the patients' medical record.
• Provides monthly reports of activity to the Director.

SURVIVORSHIP CARE PLAN

• For applicable patients, gathers all information required by the Commission on Cancer and formulates a survivorship care plan at the end treatment.
• Distributes and discusses survivorship care plan with the patient and family and other appropriate providers per protocol.

RELATIONSHIPS 

• Builds and maintains professional relationships with surgeons, other medical physicians and professionals involved in the patients care.
• Establishes communication with physicians, physician extenders and their office staff to outline navigation programs and available resources.
• Collaborates with the primary provider/surgeon, to act as a resource for the patient and family beginning during initial consultation and continuing through treatment.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE CONFERENCES

• Collaborates with physicians as well as using positive pathology reports to identify patients for the applicable multidisciplinary care conferences boards.
• Accountable for ensuring that disease sites or general tumor conferences are prepared, promoted and documented, with the goal of prospective treatment planning.

QUALITY 

• Participates in appropriate committees.
• Ensures standards are met. As applicable, ensures compliance with Joint Commission standards and and supports certification initiatives as requested.

COMMUNITY MARKETING  

• As applicable represents the program¿s services to the community.
• Collaborates with marketing for brochures and other marketing materials.
• Provides community organizations with information about services provided and offered to patients.
• May participate in community programs relevant to the promotion of the program.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Graduate of licensed school of nursing;
• RN with at least 5 years of clinical experience in a relevant clinical specialty.
• Proficient computer skills- proficiency in MS Office.
• Strong organizational, time management, critical thinking RN skills.
• Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in interactions with physicians, APNs, patients, and their families.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• BSN.

Licenses and Certifications Required:

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.

Licenses and Certifications Preferred:

• National Certification.

If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!