Nurse Navigator -Memory Disorders Clinic

Baptist Health Medical Group Nurse Navigator Memory Disorders Neurology LaGrange, Ky Full Time/First Shift

The Nurse Navigator serves as the primary point of contact for physicians and other healthcare providers, patients and their caregiver/family, and other resource-based entities, providing and accessing clinical and supportive care services offered within the multidisciplinary teams at Baptist Health Hardin and other entities as needed. The Nurse Navigator serves as an integral part of the care team within the Baptist Health Medical Group coordinating effective and comprehensive services through the continuum of care for patients with treatment and support service options.

The Nurse Navigator serves as an educator, advocate, and communicator for the patient and patient caregiver/family and proactively develops processes that streamline and improve the clinical experience for both the patient and their healthcare provider(s). The Nurse Navigator will demonstrate through organizational skills the ability to provide ease and patient safety in the operational flow of the accessed Baptist Health Hardin departments.

Nurse Navigator demonstrates the broad-based knowledge, skill, and coordination to provide nursing care and guidance to our pulmonary patients. This position requires a collegial and collaborative working style to fulfill these specific work functions.

Minimum Education , Experience, Training and Licensures

Required:

Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing with current RN licensure by the Commonwealth of Kentucky State Board of Nursing required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing required, or higher.

Benefits include:
Competitive Benefits Package 401k Plan with Match Certification/Education Reimbursement University partnerships for continuing education Term and LTC insurance 40 hours of PTO on day of hire PTO Sell Back Program Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave Bereavement Leave Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation) Employee Support Fund for employees in need of emergency financial support.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals includes more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement:
Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post-offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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