Palliative and Population Health Nurse Navigator
Palliative and Population Health Nurse Navigator
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Job Description
Job Details
Description
Want to join our Team We are currently looking for compassionate and dedicated Palliative and Population Health Nurse Navigator (NN). In this role you will be responsible for providing comprehensive care coordination and navigation services to patients with serious illnesses ensuring they receive the highest quality of care throughout their healthcare journey with illness and loss.
Office Location: Largo MD
Coverage Area: Prince Georges and Charles Counties
Status: Fulltime Monday Friday
Salary: Competitive commensurate with experience education and credentialing
Main Responsibilities:
- Respond promptly to clinical inquiries determine needs and next steps take timely action and document interactions in EMR.
- Provide inhome and telehealth assessments document findings and care plans and provide ongoing care navigation/coordination for patients and families.
- Educate patients families team members and referral sources around agency programs including eligibility criteria and the referral and admission process.
- Educate and enroll patients into hospice services.
- Complete necessary paperwork and administrative documentation for assigned tasks and insurance verifications.
- Coordinate with clinical and administrative team members to ensure timely completion and reporting of program quality metrics.
- Proactively coordinate around patient needs/questions with referring medical practices to ensure highest quality patient care.
- Monitor the EMR and other program channels to expedite patient needs.
- Spot inaccurate and incomplete information in a patients insurance record and seek out whatever information is needed to complete the record.
- Always represent the agency in the highest light with patients families and referral sources.
- Provide education to internal and external audiences when requested.
What We Offer:
- A rewarding and fulfilling career with a company that values your contributions.
- Competitive salary and generous paid time off including 18 vacation days 10 sick days and 8 paid holidays in your first year of employment with HOC.
- Educational assistance to pursue professional development additional certifications and degree programs.
- Comprehensive health dental and vision coverage companypaid ShortTerm Disability and Life Insurance and available accident and critical illness coverage.
About Hospice of the Chesapeake
At Hospice of the Chesapeake we create meaningful experiences for those in the communities we serve who are experiencing serious advanced illness and loss. We believe truly meaningful experiences come from a partnership between highly skilled and compassionate professionals our healthcare partners and the patient and family with a primary focus on living each day to the fullest extent possible. We develop care plans to minimize symptoms articulate what matters most and remember that each moment matters.
We are Your Hometown Hospice! Over the last 45 years our team has cared for more than 50000 hospice patients and nearly 100000 family members.
To learn more please visit us at hospicechesapeake or find us on social media.
Qualifications
Your Qualifications:
- Active State of Maryland or Compact RN license in good standing required.
- 23 years of nursing experience in medical/surgical critical care home care hospice or palliative care setting
- Associates degree in nursing or related field BSN preferred.
- Certification in Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing (CHPN) preferred and required within two years of employment.
- Excellent nursing assessment and verbal presentation skills required.
- Enthusiasm for nursing and passion for caring for patients with serious illness are essential.
- Time management and highquality organizational skills required.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Products and EMRs.
- Demonstrated ability to simultaneously monitor multiple communication channels handle multiple ongoing projects while meeting deadlines and foster beneficial relationships with internal and external colleagues/stakeholders.
- Solve problems creatively and efficiently.
- Current Maryland drivers license and clean driving record.
- Possess or access to reliable transportation.
In accordance with Hospice of the Chesapeakes commitment to leadership and industryleading care we require that all employees be vaccinated against COVID and influenza as well as being screened for TB upon hire and annually thereafter. Documented and supported requests for religious and medical accommodation may be considered but may not be approved in all circumstances.
#IND
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
