Patient Navigation Specialist

7 days ago


Central LA, United States Illinois Cancer Specialists Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Oncology Nurse Navigator to join our team at Illinois Cancer Specialists. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing individual assistance to patients, families, and caregivers to overcome healthcare system barriers and provide timely access to quality healthcare within a community oncology setting.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide patient education and access to relevant internal and external resources
  • Facilitate informed decision making and timely access to high-quality health and psychosocial care through all phases of the cancer continuum
  • Collaborate with internal departments and external referral resources, including scheduling, financial counseling, lab, pharmacy, social work, nursing, surgical, radiation, and imaging
  • Perform coordination of care during the full continuum of cancer care experience
  • Identify potential and real gaps in care delivery and prepare for, organize, and lead the Patient Care Conference (huddle) at regular intervals
  • Communicate interventional outcomes to the full care team in a timely manner
  • Perform assessment of patient risk stratification and develop appropriate nursing diagnoses and corresponding action plans as needed
  • Support and/or provide oral chemotherapy education, adherence, and side effect monitoring
  • Hold or participate in survivorship and advance care planning visits
  • Participate in research, quality, and performance improvement, including reporting on navigation metrics
  • Participate in community outreach and cancer prevention education
Requirements
  • Bachelor's prepared Registered Nurse (BSN)
  • Oncology Certification (OCN) preferred, Nurse Navigator Certification a plus
  • 5 years work experience as a Registered Nurse in an oncology practice or clinic
  • Ability to apply the full nursing process in day-to-day clinical operations, including assessment, analysis, and nursing diagnosis, care planning, implementation, and outcomes evaluation
  • Ability to assess health disparities, identify needs of populations and cultures found within the general facility service area, describe a patient navigation process to address those needs, and document outcomes
  • Ability to apply and/or oversee care coordination in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team
  • Working computer and internet skills, including an electronic EMR system
  • Basic knowledge of local community resources


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