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RN Cancer Care Nurse Navigator
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 8 days ago
About the Role
The Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center is seeking a Cancer Care Nurse Navigator to coordinate the cancer patient's journey through the health care system across disciplines and sites. This position is essential to the Cancer Program at the facility, and all activities of the Nurse Navigator are dedicated to the patients with cancer and the cancer care team.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches in providing complex patient management.
- →Provides patient management, care coordination, and disposition planning for cancer patients.
- →The Cancer Care Navigator assists Veterans, family members, and caregivers with receiving the most appropriate options and services to meet their complex health care needs.
- →Coordinates care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care.
- →Coordination also includes assuring services interface within the Veterans Affairs (VA) and community programs to provide continuity of care to patients.
- →Provides oversight of the patient's journey through the diagnostic and treatment continuum, ensuring that all steps in the process are scheduled, timely and completed, while tracking the overall treatment plan.
- →They will follow select patients from the earliest suspicion of cancer through the continuum of cancer care including diagnosis, treatment, survivorship/surveillance, or palliation/end of life.
- →The Cancer Care Navigator will interface with outside referral agencies, and ensure that their business and clinical practices are in compliance with regulatory standards such as JCAHO, OSHA and the appropriate professional nursing organizations.
- →Anticipates and implements preventive patient care measures.
- →Possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to their age-specific needs, providing care as considered necessary.
- →Provides guidance and education to patients and caregivers and collaborates with other professionals at all levels.
- →Addresses psychosocial, as well as nursing and medical needs of patients and their families/caregivers, through participation with the interdisciplinary care team.
- →Ensures the plan of care and educational requirements are individualized and tailored specifically to support each individual patient's needs.
- →Reports status of service needs and contributes to problem resolution and modification of processes as necessary.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
Personality Fit
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