The Registered Nurse – Navigator works collaboratively with physicians, staff and other health care professionals, to develop, implement, and evaluate, integrated and comprehensive plans of care for patients. Ensures best practice and high quality standards of health care are maintained across the continuum.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and evaluate clinical practice guidelines/care paths for patients.
• Collaborate with all of the health care team, to assist in the provision of quality patient care, and facilitate the identification of potential care problems.
• Assist as a liaison with patients and their families to physicians, staff, and other health care professionals, to coordinate patient care across all settings, and ensure high quality outcomes.
• Welcome calls from patients and families, answering questions concerning care, and follow-up as necessary.
• Proactively act as a patient advocate, working to overcome patient barriers, and resolve concerns.
• Provide educational information and resources to patients, to assist patients and family with coping, and foster self-care activities.
• Review literature, methodology, outcomes, and implications of nursing/medical research, and disseminate findings.
• Establish and maintain a knowledge base of on-going clinical research activities.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing program required.

• Current/valid RN license from the state licensing board required.
• AHA Basic Life Support (BLS) or Advanced Care Life Support (ACLS) required.