Registered Nurse Navigator – Oncology
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Oncology RN Navigator coordinating complex cancer care for UVA Health patients. Guiding patients through diagnosis, treatment, clinical trials, and follow-up while addressing barriers to care.
Responsibilities:
- Provide individualized support across the care continuum to patients, families, and caregivers
- Coordinate care from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up for oncology patients
- Guide patients through evidence-based clinical care pathways individualized to treatment plans, physiology, and disease progression
- Identify and address barriers to care and steer patients through the healthcare system
- Demonstrate UVA's Professional Practice Model through professional nursing practice, quality achievement, lifelong learning, empowered leadership, innovation, and expert caring
- Manage complex care and high-risk patient populations
- Triage new patient referrals and assess patient needs, goals, and preferences for care planning
- Coordinate multidisciplinary care and expedite access to diagnostic testing, surgery, treatments, and follow-up care
- Serve as clinical advocate, educator, and liaison for patients, families, and healthcare providers
- Provide culturally competent education on diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and posttreatment care
- Facilitate communication between care teams and support participation in therapeutic clinical trials
- Identify programmatic and quality initiatives with multidisciplinary teams and track care-pathway outcomes
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited nursing program
- 1 year of registered nursing experience required
- 3 years of related and relevant registered nursing experience strongly preferred
- Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia
- American Heart Association Health Care Provider BLS certification required
- Specialty Board Certification strongly preferred
- Ability to manage complex care and high-risk patient populations
- Ability to triage referrals, assess patient needs, and develop care plans
- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary care and expedite diagnostic testing, surgery, treatment, and follow-up
- Culturally competent patient and caregiver education skills
- Proficient communicative, auditory, and visual skills
- Attention to detail and ability to write legibly
- Ability to stand for prolonged periods, frequently travel, and bend/stoop
- Ability to lift, push, or pull 20–50 lbs
- May be exposed to chemicals, blood/body fluids, and infectious diseases
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Long-term and Short-term Disability
- Retirement Savings
- Health Saving Plans
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and education support
- Generous Paid Time Off
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