Registered Nurse (RN), Stroke Program Navigator (Temp)

Sentara Health; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Paid Time Off and Sick Leave

401k/403B with Employer Match

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital is seeking a full-time, temporary Registered Nurse (RN) Stroke Program Coordinator/Navigator to drive patient progression and reduce length of stay for stroke patients in Norfolk, VA. This role leads daily operations, collaborates across disciplines, and has the potential to become permanent based on measurable impact.

The position requires a BSN, RN license, BLS within 90 days, and 3 years of RN experience, with a focus on coordinating care and ensuring timely,

Qualifications

• BSN required.
• Registered Nurse license required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required within 90 days of hire.
• 3 years of RN experience required.

Responsibilities

• Daily patient surveillance to support timely progression of care for stroke patients.
• Identify and escalate delays related to diagnostics, consults, discharge planning, or clinical changes.
• Recognize high-risk patients early and escalate concerns related to decline or complications.
• Coordinate care across neurology, hospitalists, rehab, case management, nursing, and other partners.
• Support early planning for transitions to inpatient rehab, SNF, home health, or other settings.
• Prompt early palliative consults for high-risk populations (SAH/ICH as appropriate).
• Assist with post-discharge continuity and advance care planning as needed.

Education

BSN

Job description

City/State

Norfolk, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview

Registered Nurse (RN) Stroke Program Coordinator/Navigator – Temporary

Make a meaningful impact on stroke patient outcomes at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital is seeking a full-time, temporary Registered Nurse (RN) Stroke Program Coordinator/Navigator to help drive patient progression, reduce length of stay, and support exceptional outcomes for our stroke population.

Temporary assignment: This role is expected to be in place for approximately eight months, with the potential to become permanent

based on measurable success in reducing length of stay (LOS) for stroke patients.

In this highly visible role, you will serve as the day-to-day operational lead for stroke patient progression, partnering across disciplines to identify barriers, escape risks, coordinate care, and support timely, safe transitions throughout the continuum.

Why You’ll Love This Opportunity

• Lead meaningful work that directly supports stroke patient outcomes, care progression, and quality metrics.
• Collaborate with neurology, hospital medicine, rehabilitation, case management, nursing, and palliative care teams.
• Bring clinical expertise and operational focus to one of the region’s premier acute care hospitals.
• Help shape a role with the potential to become permanent based on demonstrated impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily patient surveillance: Proactively track stroke patients across units to support timely progression of care.
• Barrier identification and escalation: Identify and elevate delays related to diagnostics, consults, procedures, discharge planning, or clinical changes.
• Mortality risk mitigation: Recognize high-risk patients early and elevate concerns related to decline, complications, or delays.
• Care coordination: Align neurology, hospitalists, rehab, case management, nursing, and other key partners around patient needs and next steps.
• Discharge acceleration: Support early planning for transitions to inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home health, hospice, or other appropriate settings.
• Goals-of-care and palliative integration: Prompt early consults for high-risk populations, including SAH and ICH patients as appropriate.
• Post-discharge continuity: Help ensure patients complete advance care planning prior to discharge when appropriate due to elevated risk for recurrent stroke.

The Stroke Program Coordinator/ Navigator applies professional nursing judgment, clinical expertise, and technical knowledge to support comprehensive neurological and stroke patient care. This role helps ensure assessment, management, implementation, and evaluation of interventions aligned with accrediting agency requirements, disease-specific program certifications, CMS expectations, and Sentara standards.

Location: Sentara Norfolk General Hospital – Norfolk, VA

Position Status: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Shift: Days

Education Requirements

• BSN Required

Certification/Licensure Requirements

• Registered Nurse license required
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required within 90 days of hire

Experience Requirements

• 3 years of RN experience Required
• Stroke Patients-Incumbents are required to be knowledgeable of the standards of care for the stroke patients and meet the annual educational requirements set forth by the System for certified stroke centers.

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital is the region’s first Magnet hospital, a 525-bed medical center, a primary teaching facility, and home to the area’s only Level I Trauma Center within a 126-mile region.

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Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Here at Sentara, we are committed to consistently enhancing our training, advancement tracks, work-life benefits, and more. Our goal is to make you feel more excited to be here every day!

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital , located in Norfolk, VA, is a 525-bed tertiary care facility that is home to the only Level I Adult Trauma Center and burn trauma unit in Hampton Roads, and also serves as the primary teaching hospital for Eastern Virginia Medical School.

In addition to the high-quality heart program at Sentara Heart Hospital, our facility is home to Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance and several other dedicated facilities and specialized services. As a recognized accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, our hospital specializes in heart and vascular, neurosciences, neurosurgery, urology, oncology, spine care, advanced imaging, behavioral health, maternity, and women’s health, including a state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work,

Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.