Pulmonary Disease Navigator FT

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; New Albany (IN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Baptist Health in New Albany, IN seeks a Pulmonary Disease Navigator to provide clinical support, education, and coordination for COPD patients. This full-time role works with the Pulmonary Clinic to guide education and targeted care for inpatients and other pulmonary conditions.

Responsibilities include assessment, treatment monitoring, and contributing to quality improvement projects within the pulmonary program.

Qualifications

• Associate degree from an AMA-accredited respiratory program.
• Bachelor's degree in respiratory therapy preferred.
• CRT or NBRC exam completed; if not RRT, must obtain within 12 months.
• Indiana State Respiratory Care Practitioner license.
• BLS certification; ACLS within 12 months; NRP within 6 months.
• Three years of job-related experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical support, treatment access, education and care coordination.
• Serve as navigator for inpatients with COPD and pulmonary disease.
• Collaborate with Pulmonary Clinic to educate and target care for patients.
• Assist in quality improvement projects and pulmonary program development.

Skills

Respiratory therapy

BLS certified

ACLS within 12 months

NRP within 6 months

CRT or NBRC exam

Education

Associate's degree AMA Accredited Respiratory Program

Bachelor's degree AMA Accredited Respiratory Program preferred

Job description

Summary

The Pulmonary Disease Respiratory Therapy Navigator provides clinical support, treatment access, education and coordination of patient-centered care to benefit the patient, family and multidisciplinary physicians while helping achieve optimal outcomes for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary (COPD) patients and their families. This position will serve as the navigator for the medical inpatients that have a diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and other pulmonary disease. Work with Pulmonary Clinic to provide targeted care and education for these patients.

Job Description

Seeking a Pulmonary Disease Navigator! Full-time, days Baptist Health Floyd, Respiratory Care Southern Indiana/ Louisville, Kentucky area The pulmonary disease educator is a respiratory therapist that assesses, treats, and monitors patients with respiratory diseases and conditions. As part of patient assessment and management, the therapist performs diagnostic test procedures. In addition, therapists assist in departmental operations by assisting with quality improvement projects and development of the pulmonary disease program. The pulmonary disease educator follows all applicable rules and regulations established by the licensure board depending on the state in which respiratory therapy is practiced.

Position/Opportunity Highlights

• Opportunity to work in all areas of the hospital
• Opportunity to use a variety of Respiratory Therapy skills
• Opportunity to work with a great team of Certified and Registered Respiratory Therapists

Qualifications

• Associate's degree from an AMA Accredited Respiratory Program
• Bachelor's degree from an AMA Accredited Respiratory Program preferred
• Successful completion of the CRT or RRT exam from the NBRC, if not RRT must obtain within 12 months of hire
• Indiana State Respiratory Care Practitioner License
• BLS certification required, will provide training
• ACLS certification within 12 months of hire
• NRP certification within 6 months of hire
• Three (3) years job related experience

Offer

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We are conveniently located 10 minutes from downtown Louisville at 1850 State Street, New Albany, IN 47150.

Baptist Health 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.

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