Oncology RN Navigator

About This Role

The Oncology RN Navigator provides individualized supportive care to oncology patients, identifies and eliminates barriers to care, and educates patients/caregivers on treatment plans. This role ensures timely care completion, supports difficult decision-making, and participates in quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Meet individual supportive care needs of patients through proactive and recurring risk-based touchpoints
• Identify and eliminate barriers to care from new patient visit through completion of active treatment
• Support a coordinated transition into survivorship and/or end of life care
• Reinforce treatment plans with patients and caregivers by providing education on care pathways, pre/post-op teaching, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiation therapy
• Support at home symptom management with referral back to the primary medical team for escalation
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure timely completion of care during transitions
• Support patients with difficult decision making for genetic testing and participate in tumor board conferences
• Collaborate with testing center staff to identify patients interested in research studies
• Provide appropriate professional referrals for services out of scope and oversee throughput of recommendations
• Actively evaluate current navigation practice and engage in quality improvement efforts aligned with evidence-based studies

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Nursing
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Active Georgia (GA) nursing license or eligible for licensure, or active compact/multistate license (eNLC) within 60-days of hire
• BLS certification
• Participate in a department level quality improvement project annually
• Complete a minimum of 12 CEUs annually with a focus on disease group specialty if certification is not already disease group specific

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Nursing required and Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• 3 years within oncology, with at least 1 year in assigned disease group

Nice to Have

• 3 years of experience within oncology (preferred)
• At least 1 year of experience in assigned disease group (preferred)
• OCN, AOCN, APN, CBCN, or BMTCN certification (preferred, required within 24 months)

Benefits

Certifications