RN Specialty Navigator | Orthopedic Clinic

Help Patients Navigate Their Orthopedic Care and Procedures!
** Our Mission**:
Quality, compassionate care for all.
** Our Vision**:
Reimagine health care through connection, service and innovation.
** Our Core Values**:
Be Kind | Trust and Be Trusted | Work Together | Strive for Excellence.

Help patients move from injury to recovery in our Orthopedic Clinic, supporting sports medicine and orthopedic trauma care!

What you'll do:

In this role, you'll coordinate follow-up care after emergency room visits or emergency surgery, assist with surgery scheduling, and provide patient education before and after surgical procedures. You'll also coordinate follow-up appointments, physical therapy referrals, and other postoperative needs and resources to help patients navigate each step of their recovery.

Through in-person visits, online communication, and phone support, you'll serve as a key connection between patients and their care team, helping patients feel informed, supported, and prepared throughout their care.

This is an in-person, on-site position.

About our area:

Located in Kalispell, Montana, in the heart of the Flathead Valley, you'll enjoy an unmatched quality of life surrounded by mountains, lakes, and year-round outdoor recreation. As the gateway to Glacier National Park, the area offers easy access to Flathead Lake, two ski resorts, hiking, biking, fishing, and more. Bring your career to a place where others come to vacation!

What we offer you:

* Affordable health benefits and competitive compensation
* 401(k) plan with generous immediate employer match
* Logan Health Fitness Center membership discount - 1/2 off
* Employer paid life insurance
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more!
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* Qualifications:

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* ** Current Montana RN License or a multi-state compact license with authorization to practice nursing within the state of Montana; required.**
* ** Minimum of one (1) of the following required:**+ Bachelor's degree in a related field
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* * four (4) years' related experience.+ Minimum of six (6) years' experience in a related area.
* ** Minimum of four (4) years' recent specialty experience in a minimum of one (1) of the identified specialty areas required:*** + Clinical - such as inpatient post surgical floor experience+ Orthopedics+ Surgery, OR or pre/post operative experience
* RQI Provider within 7 days of hire/transfer or before independent patient care, whichever comes first.
* Knowledge of professional practice standards and regulatory requirements as related to specialty care area required.
* Knowledge and experience with electronic health records required.
* Must function with a high degree of autonomy, strong communication and interpersonal skills. Possess the ability to develop and implement community education, outreach programs/workshops and seminars as defined for assigned specialty area required.
* Possess ability to comprehensively assess patient's psychosocial status and demonstrate an understanding of the physiological disease practice as defined for assigned specialty area(s) required.
* Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with Primary Care teams and/or multidisciplinary care teams required.
* Promotes excellence through setting high standards and providing high quality outcomes.
* Ability to act with integrity, kindness, and exhibit empathy.
* Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, a self-starter, possess critical thinking skills and be able to set priorities and function as part of a team as well as independently.
* Commitment to working in a team environment and maintaining confidentiality as needed.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with various audiences.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.
* Possess and maintain computer skills to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn other software as needed.
** Job

Specific Duties :
*** Evaluates the needs and coordinates the care of the patient through the continuum of care by ensuring patient needs are met.
* Works closely with members of the multidisciplinary care team and their recommendations. Exhibits professionalism and accuracy in interfacing with providers, clinic staff, patients, and family members involved in the plan of care.
* Documents interaction per professional standards related to pre/post care and/or survivorship plan as applicable.…