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MO-SSM Health Saint Louis University West Pavilion
Regular
Job Highlights:
SIGN ON BONUS ELIGIBLE** - UP TO $15,000!
Schedule: Monday-Friday, no nights, no weekends. Clinics closed on holidays.
Hours: 8am-5pm in an outpatient clinic environment with SLUCare Physician Group.
**Sign on bonuses are for external qualified candidates. Internal candidates, please check with your recruiter to see what options are available for you.
Job Summary:
Provides services as a patient navigator throughout the continuum of care.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Functions as a liaison for management staff, administration, physicians, managed care companies, community organizations, and other customers.
- Collaborates with physicians and advanced practice providers to ensure quality outcomes. Coordinates efforts for treatment and promotes quality improvement and educational efforts.
- Compiles data, tracks outcomes, and makes recommendations for process improvement.
- Provides referrals/support for follow-up care for patients who are uninsured or underinsured.
- Utilizes the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation in all patient encounters.
- Assists medical provider with processing of diagnostic results bringing significant values to the provider’s attention. Exhibits knowledge of tests and procedures and their significance as related to patient care.
- Recognizes the implementation of dosages, interactions, side effects, adverse effects, routes of administration of drugs as they apply to individual patients. Uses knowledge of medications in instructing patients about medication therapy.
- Establishes working relationships teaching protocols for patient education, family counseling and general public information.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing
EXPERIENCE
- 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.
Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)
Employee
4963390235 SLUCR HEMONC CA CTR2
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
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Oncology Nurse Navigator - Hem/Onc at SSM Health summary:
The Oncology Nurse Navigator serves as a key liaison between patients, healthcare providers, and various organizations to ensure optimal care for individuals undergoing treatment for hematology and oncology concerns. This role involves assessing patient needs, coordinating care plans, and providing education about medication therapies while tracking outcomes for continuous improvement. The position requires experience as a registered nurse and is focused on delivering empathetic patient support in an outpatient clinic setting.
Keywords:
Oncology Nurse, Patient Navigator, Healthcare, Nursing, Patient Education, Quality Improvement, Outpatient Care, Treatment Coordination, Hematology, Oncology
