What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Navigator, Orthopedics - Somersworth position at Mass General Brigham?
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The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.
Our practice is located at 7 Marsh Brook Drive, Somersworth, NH 03878. We are one of the largest and most trusted providers of orthopedic care in both the Seacoast region and the state of New Hampshire. Whether our patients need a joint replacement or have suffered a traumatic injury, they can count on our team of specialists!
We have been a leader in sports medicine for more than 30 years, with practices located in Somersworth, Lee and Portsmouth. We are the official orthopedists and team physician group for the University of New Hampshire in recognition of our advanced training and ability to understand complex sports injuries.
We are seeking a full-time, 40-hour Orthopedic Nurse Navigator to support the practice onsite, Monday through Friday. The operating hours of the practice are from 8:00am-5:00pm, so schedules are staggered accordingly.
The Orthopedic RN Nurse Navigator will use their clinical nursing expertise to guide patients, families, and their caregivers to informed decision-making, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to provide optimal post-operative care, treatment and increased supportive care across the continuum.
Job Summary
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing required.
- Current active licensure as a Registered Nurse in NH required.
- BLS required prior to hire.
- Minimum of 5 years of RN experience.
- 2 years of Orthopedic nursing experience, with specific training for navigation or coordination of care for the Orthopedic patient preferred.
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Registered Nurse [RN - State License] preferred
Basic Life Support [BLS] Certificate preferred
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Additional Responsibilities:
- Functioning on the multidisciplinary team as an advocate, interpreter, educator, and counselor for the orthopedic post-operative patient.
- Responsible for ensuring all post-operative orthopedic patients receive quality and comprehensive service.
- Providing expert nursing care which will include direct clinical practice, consultation, education, and research.
- Coordinating patient care throughout the continuum in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team acting as a single point of contact for referring physicians, patients and caregivers to provide resources and assistance with clinical and supportive services.
- Serving as a clinical resource with expertise in the defined specialty.
- Serving as the key director of a specialty specific multidisciplinary program, developing and coordinating the model of care and services for the patient population.
- Conducting the initial needs assessment and analysis to guide the establishment of a specialty specific multidisciplinary program with a design, structure and strategic plan to support and sustain services and care offered. Collecting and synthesizing metrics to evaluate and direct the program goals including quality, service, patient satisfaction, appropriateness of care and cost effectiveness.
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