Nurse Navigator: Oncology Care Coordinator & Advocate

Duke Clinical Research Institute; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Duke Health in Durham, NC is seeking a Nurse Navigator (RN) to coordinate care across the cancer continuum, expediting access to services and guiding patients, families, and caregivers through transitions in care.

You will triage referrals, support multidisciplinary teams, document encounters in EPIC, educate patients about diagnoses and treatments, and promote engagement in decision-making. This role emphasizes reducing barriers to care and improving transitions.

Qualifications

• BSN required.
• Three years of oncology experience.
• Nurse navigator experience preferred.
• National nurse navigation training preferred.
• Metric tracking skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess and facilitate coordination of multidisciplinary care across the care continuum.
• Provide communication, advocacy, and education in a culturally competent manner.
• Ability to clinically triage new patient referrals efficiently, to ensure timely access to care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary care team and expedite sequence of patient's workup, active treatment, survivorship, and end of life care.
• Provide communication and reinforcement of clinical information and serve as a conduit between patient and providers/clinicians to address needs of patients.
• Targeted symptom assessment and management for identified patient population.
• Assess health literacy and educational needs of patient.
• Provide clinical education about diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and post- treatment care.
• Assess and document patient's needs, goals, and preferences and work to ensure such are integrated into treatment and care delivery.
• Bridge gaps in care, and assess/troubleshoot care transitions and barriers to care.
• Facilitate advanced care planning and transition of active treatment to palliative or end-of-life care.
• Document all patient encounters in EPIC.
• Enhance access to therapeutic clinical trials and optimize communication with patients, families and investigators regarding therapeutic clinical trials.
• Encourage and empower patients to actively participate in decision- making about their treatment and care. Possess leadership skills including staff education, preceptorship, patient education, and participate in process improvement initiatives.
• Practice according to professional and legal standards.
• Maintain navigation services documentation according to program standards.

Skills

Communication skills

Critical thinking

Time management

Microsoft Office

Excel

Teamwork

Education

BSN

MSN preferred

Tools

EPIC

EMR

Job description

Duke Health in Durham, NC is seeking a Nurse Navigator (RN) to coordinate care across the cancer continuum, expediting access to services and guiding patients, families, and caregivers through transitions in care.

You will triage referrals, support multidisciplinary teams, document encounters in EPIC, educate patients about diagnoses and treatments, and promote engagement in decision-making. This role emphasizes reducing barriers to care and improving transitions.