Nurse Navigator Palliative Care Clinic

BHMG Baptist Health Medical Group Inc.; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BHMG Palliative Care is seeking a Nurse Navigator to coordinate care for specialty patients from diagnosis through follow-up. You will serve as primary clinical contact, guiding patients and families, removing care barriers, and ensuring smooth transitions across the care continuum.

The role emphasizes education, advocacy, and proactive navigation to improve patient and provider satisfaction within a complex specialty environment.

Qualifications

• RN with BSN required.
• Minimum of three years of job-related experience.
• Current Kentucky or Compact State unrestricted RN license.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care across the continuum for specialty care patients and families.
• Educate, advocate, and coordinate care to support informed decisions and adherence.
• Facilitate seamless transitions among referring providers, specialists, and care departments.

Skills

Registered Nurse

BLS Certification

3+ Years Experience

Education

BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing)

Job description

Summary

BHMG Palliative Care Job Summary: The Nurse Navigator, under the direction of the Practice Manager, serves as the primary clinical point of contact for specialty care patients and their families, providing comprehensive coordination across the continuum of care. This role leverages deep specialty-specific knowledge to guide patients from diagnosis through treatment, discharge, and follow-up, eliminating barriers to timely care, facilitating system flow, and ensuring seamless transitions between referring providers, specialists, clinical research teams, ancillary services, and clinical outcomes departments. Acting as educator, advocate, and care coordinator, the Nurse Navigator supports informed decision-making, reinforces treatment plans, promotes adherence, and enhances both patient and provider satisfaction by delivering proactive, patient-centered navigation within a complex specialty care environment.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required

• Bachelors of Science in Nursing, required.
• A minimum of three years of job-related experience required.
• Current Kentucky or Compact State unrestricted license as a Registered Nurse.
• Basic Life Support certification via the American Heart Association RN, registered nurse, BSN.

Company Overview

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint-venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post-offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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