Collaborative Practice Nurse ​/ RN Sr

Overview

Blue Ridge Cancer Care is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Collaborative Practice Nurse (CPN) to support oncology patients across the continuum of care. The CPN serves as a clinical resource and care coordinator, partnering closely with providers, nursing teams, and interdisciplinary staff to improve patient outcomes, enhance the patient experience, and support value-based care initiatives.

This role focuses on proactive patient management, care coordination, symptom assessment, patient education, and navigation of complex clinical needs. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, critical thinker, and patient advocate who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about delivering high-quality oncology care.

Fully Remote:
Candidates may work remotely from anywhere within the United States.

Hybrid:
Candidates who prefer a combination of remote and on-site work may choose a hybrid schedule based on business needs and location.

• Respond promptly to patient inquiries via calls, portal messages, and emails, ensuring timely communication and intervention.
• Utilize open-ended questions and computerized algorithms/pathways to assess and manage a wide range of patient symptoms and side effects, documenting all interventions thoroughly to maintain comprehensive medical records.
• Determine the urgency of patient symptoms/side effects, aggressively managing them to prevent unnecessary emergency department and hospital utilization.
• Collaborate with physicians through electronic communication, face-to-face meetings, or phone calls for cases requiring emergency care that cannot be addressed independently through standard protocols.
• Coordinate with providers to facilitate outpatient clinic visits for patients when appropriate, ensuring continuity of care.
• Prepare, organize, and lead Patient Care Conferences (huddles), communicating interventional outcomes to the full care team efficiently.
• Perform assessments for patient risk stratification, basic psychosocial assessments, and provide emotional support, delegating or making referrals for further screening and support as needed.
• Develop and implement nursing diagnoses and corresponding action plans, supporting oral chemotherapy education, adherence, and side effect monitoring.
• Engage in survivorship and advance care planning visits, making necessary referrals to support patient needs.
• Participate in research, quality, and performance improvement initiatives, including reporting on navigation metrics, while supporting patient advocacy and empowerment.
• Serve as a mentor/preceptor, providing guidance to less experienced nurses and performing other duties as required.
• Identify potential and real gaps in care delivery, seeking opportunities to address and close these gaps.
• Stay informed on practice operations guidelines, healthcare economics, value-based care, and quality programs, with travel to outlying clinics as needed based on care team requests.

• Bachelor’s prepared Registered Nurse (BSN) preferred, Oncology Certification (OCN) a plus, Nurse Navigator Certification a plus
• 5 (five) years work experience as a Registered Nurse. Oncology experience preferred.

• Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal, collaboration, communication, and active listening skills
• Ability to apply the full nursing process in day-to-day clinical operations, including assessment, analysis and nursing diagnosis, care planning, implementation and outcomes evaluation
• Ability to assess health disparities, identify needs of populations and cultures found within the general facility service area, describe a patient navigation process to address those needs, and document outcomes
• Highly adaptable due to shifting priorities around value-based care/quality program requirements; ability to prioritize and re-prioritize quickly
• Strong organizational, critical thinking, and follow-through skills
• Ability to apply and/or oversee care coordination in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to problem-solving cross-functionally or independently, and know when to pull in…