Job Description
RN Health Navigator
Full time
Key responsibilities include:
- Serves as a care coordinator ensuring seamless and timely coordination of services throughout the continuum of breast health (breast imaging, surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology, plastic surgery and genetics.
- Identifies patient and family needs and helps facilitate access to services required to meet those needs.
- Identifying and applying appropriate comparative data, investigating data quality problems and reporting issues.
- Meets with patients and their families and helps the patient navigate the system.
- Works as part of the nursing team in the Breast Center, performing all nursing duties for the smooth operation of the department. This nurse will assist with biopsy procedures and perform patient care as needed.
Responsibilities:
- The RN is responsible for assessing the needs of each patient where assigned.
- Planning the nursing care needed, including spiritual, emotional and physiological needs. Once planned, the RN is responsible for seeing that the plan of care is carried out through performance and or leadership of supervised personnel and that the plan of care is evaluated
- The RN is directly accountable to the Nurse Manager for the quality of patient care delivered
- The RN modifies and delivers care that is specific to the age, growth and development of patients according to the unit scope of services
- When serving in the charge role, the RN is responsible for clinical and leadership functions, for assessing the needs of each patient and planning the nursing care needed to meet those needs
Pay range: $31.50-$45.70
Pay is based on experience, skills, and education. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates. The pay range may also vary within the stated range based on location.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $31.50 - $45.70 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Medical specialties:
Physical setting:
Standard shift:
Weekly schedule:
Experience:
- Nursing: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- BLS Certification (Preferred)
- RN (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Albany, NY 12208 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Albany, NY 12208: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person