Nurse Navigator (RN) - Nephrology

Advocate Aurora Health; Wake Forest (NC); On-site; USD 57,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health in Wake Forest, NC seeks a registered nurse in the Nephrology department for a full-time 40-hour week. The role emphasizes transitions of care, patient education, and interdisciplinary collaboration to support quality outcomes and continuity of care.

Required is a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing with typically 5 years of nursing experience, strong communication skills, and knowledge of quality patient care. The department offers comprehensive professional development and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing required.
• Typically 5 years nursing experience including assessments and care planning.
• Knowledge of quality and acute patient care needs.
• Excellent interpersonal and analytical communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings and coordinates with the multidisciplinary team.
• Completes nursing assessments and develops an interdisciplinary plan of care with other departments.
• Educates patients and families, addresses psychosocial needs, and identifies barriers to care.
• Designs teaching plans/programs and discharge planning for wellness and maintenance.
• Coordinates timely, evidence-based care across the care continuum for best outcomes.
• Develops patient education materials and leads education/outreach for staff and community.

Skills

Nursing assessment

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Patient education

Communication skills

Care planning

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Department: 02230 WFBMG University Group Practice: WFBMC Main - Nephrology

Status: Full time

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Hours Per Week: 40

Schedule Details/Additional Information: M-F daytime hours

Pay Range: $41.10 - $61.65

Major 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.
• Evaluates, selects or designs patient education materials on specific disease site programs. Provides education and outreach programs to patients, Advocate staff and to members of the community.
• Assist leadership in developing program vision, goals and objectives. Assists in the development, implementation and maintenance of quality programs that include best practice patient care outcomes including quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.
• Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices, and

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.

Experience Required:

• Typically requires 5 years of experience in nursing that includes performing nursing assessments, care plan development, and educating patients.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Working knowledge of the components of quality and acute patient care needs.
• Maintains clinical expertise to effectively manage physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients throughout the care continuum.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal communication skills necessary to negotiate with families, patient, physicians, and third-party payers.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with physicians and other professionals in a direct and positive manner.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Our CommitmenttoYou:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, andShort- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.