Nurse Navigator: Ambulatory Care Impact

University of Missouri Health Care; Columbia Township (MO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

MU Health Care is seeking a Nurse Navigator to coordinate care, educate patients, and drive quality improvements across care teams. This on-site role supports ambulatory care management at the South Providence Medical Building in Columbia, MO, aiming to streamline patient journeys and improve outcomes.

Ideal candidates hold Missouri RN licensure (or multi-state compact), a BSN, and 3–5 years of RN or care-coordination experience.

Qualifications

• Missouri RN licensure required or multi-state RN license.
• BSN degree and 3+ years RN experience; or 5+ years RN experience; or 1 year RN + 5 years LPN care coordination.
• Navigator experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care along the continuum for specified disease processes or populations.
• Act as a resource for patients, families, nursing staff, and other health care professionals.
• Provide education on disease processes and individualized treatment plans to patients and caregivers.
• Drive best practices around programmatic quality indicators and lead/participate in quality/performance improvement activities.
• Create processes to ensure timely access to care.
• Deliver transitional care to ensure appropriate level of care and compliance with a treatment plan.
• Provide triage/symptom management and route to appropriate level of care.
• Review disease-specific mortalities and 30-day readmission for improvement opportunities.
• Provide populations at risk with systematic, coordinated care management.
• Provide care management services as contractually obligated.
• Reduce variations in care and coordinate amongst specialty and primary care providers.
• May complete unit/department specific duties as outlined in department documents.

Skills

RN licensure

Care coordination

Patient education

Quality improvement

Team collaboration

Education

BSN degree

RN license

Job description

MU Health Care is seeking a Nurse Navigator to coordinate care, educate patients, and drive quality improvements across care teams. This on-site role supports ambulatory care management at the South Providence Medical Building in Columbia, MO, aiming to streamline patient journeys and improve outcomes.

Ideal candidates hold Missouri RN licensure (or multi-state compact), a BSN, and 3–5 years of RN or care-coordination experience.