Registered Nurse; RN) Oncology Navigator

Job Type: Full-time | Monday - Friday | 8:30am to 5:00pm

No Weekends or On-Call

$20,000 Commitment-Incentive Bonus

Your experience matters

Frye Regional Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Registered Nurse (RN) joining our team, you are embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

The Nurse Oncology Navigator provides individualized assistance to tumor site-specific patients and their families in overcoming barriers to care, facilitating timely access to care, and providing education and support. The cancer patient's trajectory through diagnosis, treatment, and aftercare survivorship will be seamless and coordinated in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team. Nurses in this unit benefit from a collaborative team culture, and the opportunity to gain diverse clinical experience.

• Monday through Friday / 8:30am to 5:00pm

• No Weekends or On-Call

• Collaborative Team Culture

A Registered Nurse (RN) who excels in this role:

• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to coordinate patient care.

• Educates patients and their caregivers on the disease process, treatment, side effect profile, and survivorship.

• Coordinates referrals both with Frye and within the region.

• Provides emotional support related to the clinical condition.

• Advocates for patients and caregivers for appropriate utilization of resources.

• Implements and measures quality improvement initiatives.

• Communicates consistently with providers, ensuring a seamless plan of care as well as follow-up care.

• Patient assessment and identification of patient-specific needs, identifying barriers and having the knowledge base to overcome these barriers, locating resources, coordinating services, providing education on treatment side effects, and developing structured means for patients to report.

• Follow patients through the continuum of care, including inpatient admissions, and collaborate with inpatient care management resources.

• Serves as primary contact and advocate for the patient; builds and maintains the trust of the patient and family, provides emotional support, navigates the healthcare system using knowledge of the intricacies of each system, and serves as the patient advocate, assuring timely access to care.

• Serves as a point of contact for providers.

• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team, creating open communication with the treating physician, the primary care physician, and their support staff.

• Establishes a referral pathway, thereby decreasing delays in treatment by working collaboratively with the oncology team to maintain a network of physician support of best practices and the delivery of care.

• Serves as an active member of the Cancer Committee and participates in tumor board conferences.

• Works well with the Cancer Registry staff and others to collect data, track outcomes, and support the strategic planning process.

• Maintains accurate and complete documentation and ongoing assessments of the role in decreasing disparities in care.

Applicants should have a current state RN license. Bachelor's degree preferred but not required. Additional requirements include:

• Active North Carolina RN license (single-state) or compact required. If relocating, licensure must be updated to the new Primary State of Residence (PSOR) before employment begins.
• Basic Life Support certification is…