Nurse Navigator, Bariatric, Full Time (Downers Grove)

Department:
36805 Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital - Bariatric Program
Status:
Full time
Benefits Eligible:
Yes
Hours Per Week:
40
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Major Responsibilities:

• Navigates patient and family members through the intake, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care ensuring smooth transitions between care settings. Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to support patients and families in addressing the following dimensions of care: education, psychosocial needs, advocacy, and continuity of care.
• Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patient's individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams across ambulatory and acute sites and departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care, and mitigating barriers to care. Navigates patients and family members throughout the intake, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care.
• Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty.
• Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in optimal patient outcomes.
• Evaluates, selects, or designs patient education materials on specific disease site programs. Provides individual and group-based education and outreach to patients (new, existing, and potential), internal care teams, and members of the community.
• Manages patient care access points for new, potential, and existing patients including engaging in daily rounding, intake of patient calls, and self-referral tools. Intakes and connects both provider-referral and self-referral patients to appropriate care teams.
• Designs and facilitates support group sessions for medical and surgical patient populations.
• Facilitates appropriate and prompt access to primary care providers, physician specialists, and other services as needed. Monitors medical and surgical patient registries to identify patients overdue for visits, labs, or referrals; arranges follow-up services as appropriate and updates health information records.
• Supports service line growth initiatives to meet or exceed budgeted volumes. Monitors physician referral patterns and partners with leadership to engage in community outreach.
• Assist leadership in developing program vision, goals, and objectives. Assists in the development, implementation, and maintenance of quality programs that include best practice patient care outcomes, including quality of life and enhanced patient loyalty.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.

Licensure:

• Nurse, Registered (RN)

Education/Experience Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. Typically requires 5 years of experience in clinical nursing that includes experience in nursing assessment, care plan development, and patient education across acute and ambulatory care settings. Experience in Acute and/or Ambulatory weight management care settings preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Working knowledge of the components of quality and patient care needs specifically related to the area in which care will be performed. Maintains clinical expertise to effectively manage physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients throughout the care continuum. Excellent analytical and interpersonal communication skills necessary to negotiate with families, patients, physicians and third party payers. Demonstrated ability to work well with physicians and other professionals in a direct and positive manner.
• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices. Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA) needs to be obtained within 6 months unless department leader has determined it is not required.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Clear oral communications and hearing acuity required for receiving instructions and converse on standard telephone. Functional speech and hearing to allow for effective communication of instructions and conversation over the telephone. Exposed to normal office environment. Engagement with both on-site and remote access teams expected. Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job. This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.
Advocate Aurora Health is one of the 10th largest not-for-profit, integrated health systems in the U.S. with nearly 3 million patients served at more than 500 sites of care in Illinois and Wisconsin, including 28 hospitals. We're redefining the standard for care with world-class doctors and caregivers, innovative solutions, outstanding outcomes, and leading-edge research and clinical trials. Combined, Advocate and Aurora are recognized for clinical excellence in a variety of specialties. Advocate Aurora Health is one of the 10th largest not-for-profit, integrated health systems in the U.S. with nearly 3 million patients served at more than 500 sites of care in Illinois and Wisconsin, including 28 hospitals. We're redefining the standard for care with world-class doctors and caregivers, innovative solutions, outstanding outcomes, and leading-edge research and clinical trials. Combined, Advocate and Aurora are recognized for clinical excellence in a variety of specialties.