Nurse Navigator

Office Location
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Drive
Human Resources
MASS Building 2 nd Floor
Edinburg, TX 78539

Edinburg:
Brownsville:
Office hours:
Monday-Friday
8:00a.m.

- 5:00p.m.

Faculty Recruitment:
College of Engineering & Computer Science: cecs

Robert

C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship: cobe

Position Information

Posting Number

Posting Number SRGV
7119

Working Title

Working Title NURSE NAVIGATOR

Number of Vacancies

Number of Vacancies 1

Location

Location Edinburg, Texas

Department

Department School of Medicine / Medicine and Oncology ISU

FTE

FTE 1.0

FLSA

FLSA Exempt

Scope of Job

To provide individualized assistance to patients, families, and care givers in the coordination and communication of the patient’s plan of care.

Description of Duties

• Facilitates and assesses patient needs upon initial encounter and periodically throughout navigation, matching unmet needs with appropriate services and referrals and support services, such as dietitians, providers, social work, and financial services.
• Facilitates timely scheduling of appointments, diagnostic testing, and procedures to expedite the plan of care and to promote continuity of care.
• Implements risk assessments and monitors healthcare pathways with multidisciplinary teams and intervenes when necessary to improve timeliness of care.
• Actively participates in a wide range of performance improvement activities by recommending and leading improvements in patient safety-related processes at unit or cancer service line level.
• Ensures appropriate data is collected and submitted to appropriate databases for service lines supported.
• Identifies potential and realized barriers to care (e.g., transportation, childcare, elder care, housing, language, culture, literacy, role disparity, psychosocial, employment, financial, insurance) and facilitates referrals as appropriate to mitigate barriers.

• Serves as a clinical resource for complex and/or highly specialized patient care situations to patient care providers and other health care professionals within SOM and UTHealth RGV and in the community.
• Educates the patient and caregiver on disease-specific guidelines and treatment options to enable patient-led treatment decisions.
• Educates and/or facilitates patients and caregivers on introduction to program, clinical trial information, resource referrals, molecular and genetic testing.
• Teaches others to critically think by verbally expressing rationale for decisions and following up by coaching and critiquing colleagues thought processes in complex situations.
• Communicates in an active, positive and effective manner to all health care team members, mentors other staff in effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication.
• Creates a climate free of fear by communicating and questioning, encouraging, and supporting others to do the same.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervision Received

General supervision from assigned supervisor.

Supervision Given

Direct supervision of assigned staff.

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from an accredited university registered nurse (RN) program.

Preferred Education

Master’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited university.

Licenses/Certifications

Current State of Texas Professional Nursing License (RN). Basic Life Support ( BLS ) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ( CPR ) certification.

Required Experience

• Four (4) years professional nursing experience to include two (2) years oncology nursing, or
• Two (2) years nursing experience in an oncology setting with Advanced Practice Registered Nurse degree.

Preferred Experience

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse experience in an oncology setting.

Equipment

Use of standard office equipment.

Working Conditions

Needs to be able…