Overview: Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers, Colorado's largest and most comprehensive provider of cancer care has an exciting opportunity for a Nurse Navigator to support our Denver division.
Scope:
Develop and provides services related to the orientation, continuing education, and professional development of clinic staff. Design, deliver, and assess learning activities and curriculums related to clinical competencies, departmental/organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and the use of clinical information technologies. Adheres to the US Oncology Compliance Program, to include the Code of Ethics and Business Standards.
Salary Range: $80,000-$92,000
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certification, etc. As of the date of this posting, in addition to your salary, RMCC offer the following benefits for this position, subject to eligibility requirements: Health, dental, and vision plans; wellness program; health savings account; flexible spending accounts; 401(k) retirement plan; life insurance, short-term disability insurance; long-term disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program; PTO, holiday pay, tuition reimbursement, and employee paid critical illness and accident insurance.
Responsibilities: The Oncology Nurse Navigator (ONN) is responsible for providing individual assistance to patients, families, and caregivers to overcome health care system barriers and provide timely access to quality healthcare within a community oncology setting. Utilizing the nursing process, the Oncology Nurse Navigator provides patient education and access to relevant internal and external resources. Primary objectives are to facilitate informed decision making and timely access to high quality health and psychosocial care through all phases of the cancer continuum. Routine collaboration with internal departments and external referral resources are anticipated, including scheduling, financial counseling, lab, pharmacy, social work, nursing, surgical, radiation and imaging, dietary, and others. Regular and frequent interface with practice-based leadership teams, physicians, and clinical staff is required to promote and engage the patient navigation process.
Key Responsibilities
Provides the core functions of patient navigation as required by managed and value-based care programs.
Performs coordination of care during the full continuum of cancer care experience
Identifies potential and real gaps in care delivery; seeks out opportunities for avoidance and/or closure
Tracks multiple managed care patient populations tied to shared savings contracts to provide enhanced care coordination between payor case managers, RMCC providers, and referring providers.
Performs ER and Inpatient discharge follow-up for value-based care patients on a weekly basis to reduce avoidable admissions/readmissions.
Prepares for, organizes, and leads the Patient Care Conference (huddle) at regular intervals; communicates interventional outcomes to full care team in a timely manner
Ensures program requirements are met for care plan documentation, screenings, and key quality metrics.
Works with providers and staff to meet performance goals within reporting period deadlines.
Works with providers to identify high risk patients based on diagnosis, comorbidities, treatment regimen, and clinical factors.
Performs basic psychosocial assessments and provides emotional support
Delegates and/or make referrals for additional screening/support and facilitates linkage to follow-up services and community resources.
Develops appropriate nursing diagnoses and corresponding action plans as needed
Supports and/or provides oral chemotherapy education, adherence, and side effect monitoring
Holds or participates in survivorship and advance care planning visits; makes referrals as needed
Participates in research, quality, and performance improvement, including reporting on navigation metrics
Supports patient advocacy and empowerment
Participates in community outreach and cancer prevention education
Knowledgeable of practice operations guidelines, practice organization and healthcare economics
Qualifications: Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's prepared Registered Nurse (BSN), Oncology Certification (OCN) preferred, Nurse Navigator Certification a plus 5 (five) years work experience as a Registered Nurse in an oncology practice or clinic
Critical Skills: Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal and collaboration skills
Ability to apply the full nursing process in day-to-day clinical operations, including assessment, analysis and nursing diagnosis, care planning, implementation and outcomes evaluation
Ability to assess health disparities, identify needs of populations and cultures found within the general facility service area, describe a patient navigation process to address those needs, and document outcomes
Ability to prioritize and re-prioritize quickly
Strong organizational and critical thinking skills
Ability to apply and/or oversee care coordination in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 40 lbs. Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range. -Required to lift and assist patients as requested.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medical preparations and other conditions common to an oncology/hematology clinic environment may occur.
