Nurse Navigator, Medicine

Position Summary

Under general administrative direction, coordinates referrals from health care facilities and individual providers; provides a significant level of patient education related to illness and planned management and treatment. The Navigator will act as the community liaison for support programming to ensure that the patients are aware of different services offered.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned.

• Contact patient within two days of inpatient discharge for care coordination such as obtaining required specialty and PCP appointments w / in required timeline, social worker, home care set-up, medication reconciliation and ensures all summary of care documentation is available in the chart at pending visits.
• Contact patient within set time frame for follow up after ED discharge for clinically appropriate appointment.
• Provide appropriate clinical support, counseling, and education. Alerts provider to urgent situations that cannot wait until scheduled follow up.
• Work with multi-disciplinary team to develop a plan of care focusing on reducing readmissions and addresses chronic disease conditions and social / environmental concerns that may lead to repeat hospital stays / visits.
• Work with all members of the surgical and oncological team to seamlessly coordinate the care delivered and necessary support for patient and their family.
• Clinic prep notes for new patient and returning patient which includes scanning notes / imaging, contacting referring physicians or imaging group, and contacting patients on any issues on items needed for visit.
• Pull records needed for patient from Cerner and EPIC and scan in Allscripts.
• Handout and review OR prep packet with patient.
• Order lab work, schedule testing and biopsy that are ordered.
• Assist providers in addressing insufficiencies in care provision by coordinating follow up, orders, and referrals.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Experience

Physical Requirements

About GW MFA

MFA physicians provide comprehensive patient care, offering one practice for the whole person with 52 medical and surgical specialties. As members of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences faculty, MFA providers are teachers and mentors for medical students, residents, fellows, and researchers preserving the rich tradition of academics, research, and healing. In addition to maintaining a closely integrated alliance with The George Washington University and The George Washington University Hospital (GWUH) which is separately owned and operated by Universal Health Services (UHS), the GW MFA has active referring relationships with 12 area hospitals.

The GW MFA's leading healthcare presence in the DC metro region is complemented by a network of community-based practices in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Given its geographic location in central NW Washington, DC, and proximity to more than 175 resident embassies, the MFA continues to evolve its international clinical outreach.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)