Registered Nurse (RN) - Nurse Navigator

Overview

Neonatology - RN Nurse Navigator

40 hours per week; Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm

In collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, the Nurse Navigator - RN serves as an advocate for patients with serious illness by providing care coordination, education and support to patients, families and caregivers throughout the care continuum to ensure high quality of care across all care delivery sites. Responsible and accountable for the management of resources and serves as a liaison between the patient and family and all physicians, internal and external healthcare providers, support network members and the wider healthcare community.

These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000.
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement.
• We have a very popular "earned time" plan.
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs.
• Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art.
• Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model.
• We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment.
• Dartmouth Hitchcock's Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing. education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center set right in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We recognize that "quality of life" means different things to different people, but we are very confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary, and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This all means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic in the "Upper Valley" of New Hampshire is a line on the ski mountain at the chair lift.

Read more about Dartmouth Health and why YOU should work here.

The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry, and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth Health Children's; member hospitals, and 30 Dartmouth Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. With destinations like Boston, New York, the seacoast, and ski country within driving distance, the opportunities - both career and personal - truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.

Applicants are encouraged to visit our nursing career site to learn more and apply:

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Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Responsibilities

1. Serves as a patient advocate for patients with serious illness. Initiates contact with the patient to introduce the navigation program, the navigator role and be accessible to patients and families throughout the care continuum. Responds to patient challenges/barriers to care until resolution is achieved.
2. Assesses patients' medical, social, psychosocial, and other care needs matching unmet needs and barriers to care with appropriate services, referrals and support services including health professionals, providers and financial services.
3. Collaborates with the care team to assist patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options and the resources available, including education, clinical research studies, and technologic advances.
4. Develops or utilizes appropriate assessment tools to promote a consistent, holistic plan of care.
5. Attends Interdisciplinary Team meetings and/or other meetings as necessary to ensures that appropriate patient data is available, complete and accurate. Serves as the patient advocate and interdisciplinary team member at these meetings.
6. Acts as a liaison between patients, families and caregivers and the providers to optimize patient outcomes.
7. Drives process improvement through collaboration with others to determine programmatic and operational opportunities for improvement, makes appropriate recommendations for changes, and assists in delivering program improvement.
8. Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with key internal and external customers.
9. Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) required; Master's preferred.
• Three years of applicable specialty experience in an acute or ambulatory care setting preferred.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and reprioritize
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships internally and externally
• Basic computer skills
• Ability to work autonomously

Required Licensure/Certifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse with New Hampshire eligibility.
• BLS for Healthcare Provider
• Nurse Navigation Certification required within two years of hire.