Nurse Navigator

at Wesley Medical Center* in Wichita, Kansas, United States

Job Description

Introduction
Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Nurse Navigator Wesley Medical Center

We are seeking a(an) Nurse Navigator for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

• Demonstrates the ability to adapt technique/treatment to age of population served, including newborn, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients, while providing care/service with respect to cultural differences and spiritual needs
• Build relationships with patients and physicians, to coordinate a plan of care including appointments, transportation, education, provision and/or enablement of support services and representation within the multidisciplinary care environment
• On an aggregate level, tracks performance of the program in line with HCA, division and facility goals (growth, quality, practice guidelines, etc.) and identify opportunities to streamline care practice, through development of evidence-based guidelines
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for the management of resources to achieve efficient, high quality outcomes for each patient including support for interdisciplinary and cross facility collaboration (i.e. fetal boards, and communication with the referring physician
• Serves as a liaison between the patient and family, primary care physician, internal and external care providers, specialists, support network members e.g. social workers, and the wider healthcare community; Conducts internal and referral for external outreach and marketing; May include health fairs, screenings and other special events
• Assesses the medical, social, and psychosocial and other care needs of the patient and family
• Assess and initiates referrals to the hospital and community resources to connect patient as needed
• Provides appropriate teaching, outreach, and education to patients and families to ensure the patient is empowered to manage his or her own health
• Streamlines appointments and paperwork by helping patients with scheduling of appointments and preparation
• Establishes algorithms, documents, and formalized processes for transition in commonly followed care pathways
• Coaches and helps patients to remove barriers with issues of insurance, transportation, child care, financial resources, language so they may focus on getting the care they need
• Initiates referrals to hospital and community resources to connect patients with resources and support systems
• Conducts follow-up conversations as needed with all patients to communicate concerns, changes, or social needs in patient health to appropriate MD or other care providers
• Supports and conducts outreach to referrers, providers, other medical professionals and the community
• Organizes and attend patient education classes and other meetings as necessary
• Tracks and documents interventions and outcomes, including managing and updating the CV dashboards
• All other duties as assigned 

For more than 100 years, Wesley Healthcare has provided exceptional care to thousands of families in Wichita and throughout Kansas and Northern Oklahoma. Wesley Medical Center is a member of the Wesley Healthcare network within Greater Wichita and has been an HCA Healthcare hospital since 1985.

Our physicians treat more than 24,000 patients annually, making Wesley Medical Center the most preferred hospital in Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Additionally, our obstetricians and childbirth staff deliver more than 6,000 babies each year, more than any hospital in a 13-state region.

Home to Wesley Children's Hospital, the region's first and Wichita's only children's hospital, we care for children in a unique space designed specially for kids and their families. And as a Level I Trauma Center and the only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in Kansas, we are prepared to treat any medical emergency, any time of day.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Nurse Navigator opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.