Registered Nurse (RN) Navigator Float

Job overview

The Registered Nurse (RN) Navigator Float is an onsite contract role based in Atlanta, GA. Compensation is not specified for this position, which supports the nursing department at Kaiser Permanente. The role exists to provide education and resources to facilitate informed decision-making and timely access to quality health and psychosocial care throughout the care continuum. The RN Navigator serves as a key point of contact for patients, families, and caregivers to ensure optimal patient outcomes.

What you'll do

• Assists patients and families in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, and the resources available to them within Kaiser Permanente.
• Responsibilities include assessment, symptom management, analysis of data, planning, case management, and implementation of interventions and evaluation of the outcomes for patients with past, current, or suspected chronic diagnosis.
• Develop and facilitate a plan of care in consultation with treating physicians, patient, their support network, and family members.
• Serves as an essential link between patients, healthcare providers, family, and support team.
• Facilitate changes in the plan of care and brokering necessary services to facilitate a patient-centered care environment.
• Performs care assessments and triage of new and ongoing patients by phone, in the clinic, or in coordination with other healthcare team members.
• Facilitates appointments for consults, procedures, and support services within the established service lines.
• Facilitates the availability of pathology reports, radiographic studies and additional pathology testing needed for the member.
• Standardizes patient education materials by developing and maintaining a resource library specific to the specialty patient population.
• Delivers patient and family education prior to initiation of treatment plan and remains available throughout the treatment process.
• Follows the patient throughout the entire continuum of care while an active Kaiser Permanente KPGA patient and continue to collaborate with external healthcare members regarding inpatient treatment and discharge planning.
• Monitor patient compliance with patient treatment plan.
• Assist patients with referrals to outside resources and care coordination as needed.
• Responsible for outreach to maintain a positive working relationship as appropriate with key customers.
• Assists the patient with symptom management side effects of treatments keeping the physician updated with their side effects, interventions, medication needs and any dose limiting toxicities that are identified promptly.
• Develop a database of community resources for patients.
• Central point of contact for all navigated patients involved in data collection or research projects.
• Responsible for ongoing development and implementation of the Nurse Navigator role at Kaiser Permanente and within the community.
• Carry out various direct patient care activities within scope of practice and accurately document the patient care in the patient medical record.
• Serves as a preceptor, resource, and mentor for new members of the healthcare team and nursing students.
• Develop a departmental outreach resource database to connect patients and individuals to services and community resources.
• Maintain knowledge about disease specialty, treatments, delivery of Navigator services.
• Specialty specific job responsibilities including but are not limited to medication teaching, device programming and maintenance, maintaining relevant databases, patient education, self-injection teaching, and policy review.
• Identifies clinical quality indicators for relevant patient population and conducts systematic reviews when required.
• Implements methods and processes to sustain change in nursing practice, programs of care, and clinical innovation.
• Facilitates evaluation of records by physicians, peers, and quality standards, according to protocols and receives and implements constructive directives.
• Participates in specialty department meetings as needed.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

contract

day shift

atlanta ga

kaiser permanente

registered nurse

rn

navigator

float

nursing

healthcare

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

About the employer

Kaiser Permanente is hiring for this role. Industry: Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers. Sector: 62.