[Hiring] Nurse Navigator @Bozeman Health
Role Description
This position can be remote. Please review the approved remote states below.
• Arizona
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Iowa
• South Dakota
• Texas
• South Carolina
• Wisconsin
• North Carolina
• Michigan
• If your state is not listed, you must relocate to Montana or one of the approved states above to be eligible for this position.
The Nurse Navigator collaborates with providers and/or clinical areas to coordinate service and ensure quality of care for patients. This nurse interdependently assesses, evaluates and implements care delivered to patients and ensures a smooth transition of patients from clinic to procedural and outpatient treatment areas. The nurse navigator, together with the multidisciplinary team, facilitates timely scheduling of appointments, diagnostic testing, and procedures to expedite the plan of care and promote continuity of care. The registered nurse also plans and implements patient and family education.
Qualifications
• Bachelors in Nursing from accredited nursing school
• Montana Licensure (Registered Nurse)
• American Heart Association BLS
• 1 year of direct patient care experience
• Preferred: Certification in specialty
• Preferred: Experience in specialty
• Preferred: 3 years of direct patient care experience
Requirements
• Coordination of patients
• Actively participates as a team member by communicating with providers, schedulers, nursing, infusion, radiology, lab, and other departments
• Assist in tracking of incidental radiological/laboratory findings as needed
• Contact patients if needed to assure appropriate follow up is done
• Coordinate the ordering, scheduling, and performance of selected procedures and treatments as indicated
• Collaborate with clinic team as well as other departments to ensure overall coordination of services
• Assist with Survivorship care planning as needed
• Counsel and educate patients to ensure the patient is well informed of all portions of the plan of care
• Works with non-licensed staff to gather necessary medical records for review
• Works with other co-workers to improve care processes in the department
• Room patients - Gather patient data consistently and accurately, collect information on history of present illness or injury, obtain vital signs, review current medications and allergies
• Document patient encounters in EMR
• Triage and respond to patient phone messages in a timely manner according to clinic guidelines
• Collaborate with provider, act on provider response, and communicate with patient
• Document task communications in EMR/paper chart
Benefits
• This role requires regular and sustained attendance
• The position may necessitate working beyond a standard 40-hour workweek, including weekends and after-hours shifts
• On-call work may be required to respond promptly to organizational, patient, or employee needs
Physical Requirements
• Lifting (Repeatedly – 50 pounds)
• Sit (Occasionally)
• Stand (Repeatedly)
• Walk (Repeatedly)
• Climb (Rarely)
• Twist/Bend/Stoop/Kneel (Repeatedly)
• Reach Above Shoulder Level (Repeatedly)
• Push/Pull (Repeatedly)
• Fine-Finger Movements (Continuously)
• Vision (Continuously)
• Cognitive Skills (Continuously)
• Exposures (Continuously)
• Frequency Key: Continuously (100% - 67% of the time), Repeatedly (66% - 33% of the time), Occasionally (32% - 4% of the time), Rarely (3% - 1% of the time), Never (0%).
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to the job classification. They are not to be construed as a contract of any type nor an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by individuals so classified.
This position can be remote. Please review the approved remote states below.
• Arizona
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Iowa
• South Dakota
• Texas
• South Carolina
• Wisconsin
• North Carolina
• Michigan
• If your state is not listed, you must relocate to Montana or one of the approved states above to be eligible for this position.
The Nurse Navigator collaborates with providers and/or clinical areas to coordinate service and ensure quality of care for patients. This nurse interdependently assesses, evaluates and implements care delivered to patients and ensures a smooth transition of patients from clinic to procedural and outpatient treatment areas. The nurse navigator, together with the multidisciplinary team, facilitates timely scheduling of appointments, diagnostic testing, and procedures to expedite the plan of care and promote continuity of care. The registered nurse also plans and implements patient and family education.
Qualifications
• Bachelors in Nursing from accredited nursing school
• Montana Licensure (Registered Nurse)
• American Heart Association BLS
• 1 year of direct patient care experience
• Preferred: Certification in specialty
• Preferred: Experience in specialty
• Preferred: 3 years of direct patient care experience
Requirements
• Coordination of patients
• Actively participates as a team member by communicating with providers, schedulers, nursing, infusion, radiology, lab, and other departments
• Assist in tracking of incidental radiological/laboratory findings as needed
• Contact patients if needed to assure appropriate follow up is done
• Coordinate the ordering, scheduling, and performance of selected procedures and treatments as indicated
• Collaborate with clinic team as well as other departments to ensure overall coordination of services
• Assist with Survivorship care planning as needed
• Counsel and educate patients to ensure the patient is well informed of all portions of the plan of care
• Works with non-licensed staff to gather necessary medical records for review
• Works with other co-workers to improve care processes in the department
• Room patients - Gather patient data consistently and accurately, collect information on history of present illness or injury, obtain vital signs, review current medications and allergies
• Document patient encounters in EMR
• Triage and respond to patient phone messages in a timely manner according to clinic guidelines
• Collaborate with provider, act on provider response, and communicate with patient
• Document task communications in EMR/paper chart
Benefits
• This role requires regular and sustained attendance
• The position may necessitate working beyond a standard 40-hour workweek, including weekends and after-hours shifts
• On-call work may be required to respond promptly to organizational, patient, or employee needs
Physical Requirements
• Lifting (Repeatedly – 50 pounds)
• Sit (Occasionally)
• Stand (Repeatedly)
• Walk (Repeatedly)
• Climb (Rarely)
• Twist/Bend/Stoop/Kneel (Repeatedly)
• Reach Above Shoulder Level (Repeatedly)
• Push/Pull (Repeatedly)
• Fine-Finger Movements (Continuously)
• Vision (Continuously)
• Cognitive Skills (Continuously)
• Exposures (Continuously)
• Frequency Key: Continuously (100% - 67% of the time), Repeatedly (66% - 33% of the time), Occasionally (32% - 4% of the time), Rarely (3% - 1% of the time), Never (0%).
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to the job classification. They are not to be construed as a contract of any type nor an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by individuals so classified.