OB/GYN Nurse Navigator: Care Continuity & Education

Advocate Health; Park Ridge (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health's Advocate Medical Group in Park Ridge is seeking a registered nurse to join a patient-centered team. The role requires an active RN license in the practice state, a Bachelor's in Nursing, and typically 5 years of nursing experience including assessments and care planning.

The nurse will provide continuity of care across settings, educate patients and families, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, and support discharge planning to enhance patient outcomes in our

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.

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.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Advocate Health's Advocate Medical Group in Park Ridge is seeking a registered nurse to join a patient-centered team. The role requires an active RN license in the practice state, a Bachelor's in Nursing, and typically 5 years of nursing experience including assessments and care planning.

The nurse will provide continuity of care across settings, educate patients and families, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, and support discharge planning to enhance patient outcomes in our