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

Sentara Healthcare Inc; Norfolk, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

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

As the day-to-day operational lead, you will coordinate care across neurology, hospital medicine, rehab, case management, and nursing, with a focus on timely, safe transitions and adherence to accrediting standards.

Qualifications

• BSN required.
• 3 years of RN experience required.
• Stroke program knowledge and annual educational requirements.

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 escalate 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.

Skills

RN experience

Care coordination

Clinical leadership

Discharge planning

Mortality risk mitigation

Education

BSN

Job description

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, elevate 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 **escalate 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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