RN - Navigator

Company: CHI Franciscan
Location: Tacoma
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

Overview: CHI Franciscan has exciting and rewarding careers with competitive salaries and benefits. We are a family of hospitals, health care services, and medical providers delivering compassionate care to people throughout the South Puget Sound. We are part of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the country. Our mission is to deliver high quality care that meets our patients' medical needs while providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. We believe this three-part approach - physical, emotional, and spiritual - is essential to healing the whole person. Come join our team!
Responsibilities
This position will be apart of our Oncology Support Services group and will be based at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. The role will be a full-time position, working Mondays - Fridays. Job Summary:
This job is responsible for coordinating the individualized care continuum for patients diagnosed with on-going critical health conditions by serving as an advocate, educator, consultant, leader and community ambassador for the specific patient population served in accordance with CHI Franciscan standards/guidelines, applicable statutory requirements and accepted clinical practice for the clinical nurse profession to achieve quality, cost-effective and patient-focused outcomes.
Incumbents are accountable for keeping abreast of new/changing regulatory requirements impacting matters within designated scope of responsibility; maintaining current knowledge of departmental policies/standards/procedures, Joint Commission standards, new clinical procedures/processes, patient safety goals, core measure quality indicators and other issues/requirements impacting matters within assigned scope of responsibility; ensuring these factors are considered and integrated into clinical, performance improvement and education activities. Essential Duties:

• Coordinates care for all assigned patients throughout the continuum of care from diagnosis to release from care. Develops and shares assessments, goals, nursing interventions and patient response; remains a support system throughout the patient's course of treatment.
• Provides education to meet the needs to patient, families, healthcare providers, and the community.
• Consults and collaborates with other providers to meet the medical, social, and financial needs of patients; Formulates an individualized, holistic care plan for patients and evaluates general management of patients and patient's response to nursing interventions and multi-disciplinary treatment plans.Provides accurate and timely data tracking, management, evaluation and reporting of clinical/treatment protocols/practices through ongoing observation and analysis of current activities.
• Provides accurate and timely data tracking, management, evaluation and reporting of clinical/treatment protocols/practices through ongoing observation and analysis of current activities.Cultural Sensitivity and
• Provides operational support and contributes to clinical research activities conducted by department.
  Qualifications Education/Work Experience Requirements:
  Bachelor's degree in Nursing or other related discipline, graduation from an accredited school of nursing, and three years of related professional nursing work experience in the clinical focus area that demonstrates the attainment of the requisite job knowledge, skills and abilities. Previous navigator work experience is strongly preferred.
  Additional equivalent qualifying work experience that demonstrates attainment of the requisite job knowledge/abilities may be substituted for two years of the degree requirement (Associate's degree required).
  Master's degree in Nursing or related field is strongly preferred. Licensure/Certification:
  • Current licensure as a Registered Nurse issued by the Washington State Board of Nursing.
  • Current Healthcare Provider BLS Certification
  • If assigned to Cardiology/EP department: Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
  • If assigned to Oncology department: Certification by the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC) as an Oncology Certified Nurse (OCN) required within one year of date of hire.
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    Associated topics: asn, domiciliary, intensive, intensive care, maternal, neonatal, registed, registered nurse, staff nurse, surgery

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