This is a Full Time 10-hour Day shift position located in La Jolla.
Join the Scripps Health team and work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-centered healthcare. Receive endless appreciation while you build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations nationwide.
Why join Scripps Health?
AWARD-WINNING WORKPLACE:
· Selected as one of the 100 Best Places to Work for 2024 by Fortune Magazine and the Great Place to Work Institute for the 16th time. A remarkable achievement as only five healthcare organizations nationwide made the list, and Scripps is the sole healthcare provider in California to be recognized.
· Recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity in 2024.
· Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
· #78 in 2023 PEOPLE Companies that Care.
· #95 in Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for 2023.
We invite you to join our Hematology/Oncology team as a Specialty Nurse Navigator.
As a Specialty Nurse Navigator supporting GI oncology you will be responsible for:
· Primary contact/advocate for patients in a large multidisciplinary gastrointestinal oncology practice.
· Collaborate with care team to develop and facilitate individualized plan of care.
· Educate patient and caregivers about disease, treatment modalities, side effect management and self-care measures.
· Coordinate all aspects of care including diagnostics, procedures, referrals, treatments.
· Triage all communications including patient calls and emails, other departments, insurances, genomic testing organizations.
· Formed strong relationships with all colleagues including physicians, nurses, clerical staff, and management across multiple departments and locations.
· Navigating patients through the continuum of care acting as a liaison and resource between the physician, other departments, and the patient.
· Establish specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time specific nursing goals to guide the care planning process and promote self-reliance.
· Provide in person, clinic visits as needed at the initiation of care and throughout transitions of care throughout all of our hematology/oncology clinic sites, as needed.
· Formulating custom care plans from assessment and clinical information demonstrating the application of clinical guidelines including standards of care.
· Providing disease and treatment specific education tailored to meet patient’s individual goals of care.
· Onsite rounding throughout treatment plan implementation as needed to provide needed in person patient evaluation.
· Provide direct, hands-on nursing care, as needed.
· Assist patients in establishing, modifying, or reinforcing a social support network, thereby promoting self-reliance. Assisting patients with social services needs by identifying resources in the community and referring to these programs.
· Collaboration with system wide authorizations team, scheduling in other departments, as needed to ensure patient receives timely and comprehensive care.
