Plastic Surgery Nurse Navigator

2 weeks ago


St Louis MO USA, United States SSM Health Full time
Job Summary

As a Plastic Surgery Nurse Navigator, you will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth transition of patients through the continuum of care. You will serve as a liaison between management staff, administration, physicians, managed care companies, community organizations, and other customers. Your primary responsibilities will include collaborating with physicians and advanced practice providers to ensure quality outcomes, coordinating efforts for treatment, promoting quality improvement and educational efforts, and providing referrals/support for follow-up care for patients who are uninsured or underinsured.

Responsibilities and Requirements
  • Function as a liaison for management staff, administration, physicians, managed care companies, community organizations, and other customers.
  • Collaborate with physicians and advanced practice providers to ensure quality outcomes.
  • Coordinate efforts for treatment and promote quality improvement and educational efforts.
  • Compile data, track outcomes, and make recommendations for process improvement.
  • Provide referrals/support for follow-up care for patients who are uninsured or underinsured.
  • Utilize the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation in all patient encounters.
  • Assist medical provider with processing of diagnostic results bringing significant values to the provider's attention.
  • Exhibit knowledge of tests and procedures and their significance as related to patient care.
  • Recognize the implementation of dosages, interactions, side effects, adverse effects, routes of administration of drugs as they apply to individual patients.
  • Use knowledge of medications in instructing patients about medication therapy.
  • Establish working relationships teaching protocols for patient education, family counseling and general public information.
Education and Experience

Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing. Three years' registered nurse experience.

Physical Requirements

Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication. Constant standing and walking. Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs. Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry. Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors. Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors. Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc. Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs. Occasional lifting/moving of patients. Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements. Occasional driving. Rare crawling and running.



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