RN Oncology Navigator FT Days

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans seeks an Oncology Nurse Navigator to guide patients through cancer care with empathy and clinical expertise. You coordinate between patients, families, physicians, and care teams, helping patients understand treatment options and access resources.

With a Louisiana nursing license and BLS, you will advocate for patients, track care plans, and support survivorship from screening to treatment.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• Amercian Heart Association BLS certification.
• 3 years of professional nursing experience in specialty area.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate written and verbal communication relating to the medical treatment plan between the patient, family, physician, physician staff, and other team members.
• Coordinate the treatment plan with internal and external departments and agencies, ensuring continuity of patient care.
• Assist patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, and available resources.
• Review medical documentation to assist physicians in obtaining complete and accurate treatment plans.
• Serve as a link between patients and all other care providers.
• Support care management resources and facilitate appointments for consults and support services.
• Collect data, track outcomes, and aid in planning processes across the care continuum.

Job description

Your job is more than a job.

Oncology Nurse Navigator – Be the Person Who Helps Guide the Way

When a patient hears the words “You have cancer,” their world can change in an instant. That’s where you come in.

As an Oncology Nurse Navigator, you are more than a nurse—you’re a guide, an advocate, a trusted resource, and sometimes the steady voice patients need when everything feels overwhelming. You help patients navigate the twists and turns of their cancer journey, making sure they never feel like they’re walking through it alone.

You’ll be the hub connecting the dots between patients, physicians, specialists, treatment teams, resources, and families. You’ll coordinate care, provide education, answer questions, remove barriers, and help patients understand what comes next. Most importantly, you’ll make sure they feel seen, heard, supported, and cared for every step of the way.

You bring your clinical knowledge and oncology expertise to the table, but your compassion is what truly sets you apart. You know that sometimes the most important thing you can do is listen. Sometimes it’s making a phone call, finding a resource, explaining a treatment plan one more time, or simply reminding a patient, “We’ve got you.”

You’re organized, proactive, positive, and passionate about creating exceptional patient experiences. You know how to advocate fiercely while leading with empathy. And when things get complicated, you’re the person who stays calm, finds a solution, and keeps moving forward.

This role may have a schedule, but your commitment to your patients doesn’t clock out. If this were your loved one navigating cancer, you’d want someone in their corner who cared deeply—and that’s exactly what you bring to this role.

Your nursing experience, oncology knowledge, compassion, empathy, problem‑solving skills, and that little something extra that makes patients feel safe with you all add up to something special. If you’re ready to be the person who helps patients find their way through one of the most challenging chapters of their lives, we’d love to meet you.

Come be the steady hand, caring voice, and trusted guide our oncology patients need.

Your Everyday

Coordinate written and verbal communication relating to the medical treatment plan between the patient, family, physician, physician staff, and other team members.

Communicate and coordinate the treatment plan to internal and external departments and agencies, establishing and maintaining the continuity of patient care.

Assist patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, and the resources available.

Review the medical documentation to assist the physicians in obtaining complete and accurate documentation of their medical treatment plan.

Serve as an essential link between patients and all other care providers.

Follow patients throughout the care continuum collaborating with care management resources and facilitating appointments for consults and support services including social workers, PT, OT, ST, dietitians, physicians, financial resources, etc.

Collect data, track outcomes, and support strategic planning processes. Demonstrates the knowledge, skill, and coordination to provide nursing care and guidance from screening to survivorship by planning, implementing, and evaluating patient’s care.

Assist patients and their family members in search of solutions, treatment‑related problems, education to facilitate seamless care and support patients with difficult decisions.

Perform ongoing review of policies related to service provided where appropriate and update policies to enhance professional practice.

Serve as a resource for community educational events such as health fairs, screenings, symposiums, and lectures as well as staff education.

The Must-Haves

Minimum

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana and as defined by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
• Amercian Heart Association BLS certification.
• 3 years of professional nursing experience in specialty area.

Work Shift

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

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Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems - it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.