Nurse Navigator Cancer Thoracic Surgery Helen F Graham Center Newark DE
Nurse Navigator Cancer Thoracic Surgery Helen F Graham Center Newark DE
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ChristianaCare is currently seeking a fulltime Nurse Navigator for Cancer Thoracic Surgery at the Helen F. Graham Center in Newark DE.
Primary Function:
- To manage the care of atrisk cancer patients and their families through collaboration with the multidisciplinary care team utilizing appropriate clinical guidelines.
- To provide/coordinate quality patient care throughout the healthcare continuum.
- To impact population health.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Completes a comprehensive assessment of the patient upon initial encounter and periodically throughout navigation matching unmet needs with appropriate services and referrals and support services such as dietitians social work genetic counselor and financial services to maintain healthy lifestyle choices and selfcare strategies.
- Identifies potential and realized barriers to care (e.g. transportation childcare elder care housing language culture literacy role disparity psychosocial employment financial insurance) and facilitates referrals.
- Schedules or facilitates scheduling of appointments diagnostic testing and procedures to expedite the plan of care timely followup to promote continuity of care
- Assesses patient and family learning needs to identify barriers to education (e.g. literacy language cultural influences comorbidities)
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary team to develop patients clinical treatment plan
- Educates the patient/family/caregiver: diagnosis treatment options side effect management post treatment and survivorship.
- Acts as a liaison and advocate between the patients families caregivers and health care providers to promote and optimize patient outcomes
- Contributes to Thoracic/IP program development implementation and evaluation within the healthcare system and community
- Contributes to the knowledge base of the healthcare community and in support of the ONN role through activities such as involvement in professional organizations presentations publications and research
- Participates in system committees such as Magnet cancer nursing council safety cultural competency/diversity patient education professional nursing council.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Three or more years of combined clinical experience in oncology surgical and/or pulmonary care.
- Oncology Certification (OCN) or Case Management Certification (CCM) preferred or must be obtained within two years of hire into this position
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Special Requirements:
- Delaware RN licensure required
Qualified candidates should apply online and attach a current resume for consideration.
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Post End Date
Jun 27 2025EEO Posting Statement
Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination whose staff is reflective of its community and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race color sex religion national origin sexual orientation genetic information gender identity or expression age veteran status disability pregnancy citizenship status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.
Employment Type
Full-Time
