Neurology Nurse Navigator: Care Continuity Lead

125 Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation; Palos Township (IL); On-site; USD 57,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health and welfare benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement plan with employer match

Job summary

Advocate Medical Group's Neurology Clinic in Palos Heights, IL is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join our outpatient team. You will provide nursing assessments, care planning, and patient education across the continuum of care.

Requires IL RN license, Bachelor's in Nursing, 5 years nursing experience including neurology, and ability to work independently. Schedule: Monday–Friday 8:30am–5:00pm; 40 hours weekly; no weekends or holidays.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
• Typically requires 5 years of experience in nursing that includes performing nursing assessments, care plan development, and educating patients.
• Strong neurology background.
• Must be able to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings.
• Develops a relationship with patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care.
• Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patient's individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care and identifying barriers to care.
• Navigates patients and family members throughout the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care.
• Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty.
• Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in best patient outcomes.

Skills

RN License

Neurology background

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Independent worker

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Advocate Medical Group's Neurology Clinic in Palos Heights, IL is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join our outpatient team. You will provide nursing assessments, care planning, and patient education across the continuum of care.

Requires IL RN license, Bachelor's in Nursing, 5 years nursing experience including neurology, and ability to work independently. Schedule: Monday–Friday 8:30am–5:00pm; 40 hours weekly; no weekends or holidays.