Nurse Navigator Oncology - Plainsboro, NJ - Full Time (Day Shift)

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Why Join Our Team?

The Oncology Nurse Navigator (ONN) provides care coordination to cancer patients with the goal of overcoming potential or realized barriers to care, providing education and resources to facilitate timely delivery of services and psychosocial care, and improving patient outcomes. The ONN collaborates with the multidisciplinary team as an advocate, educator, and counselor for UMCPP oncology inpatients and outpatients across the continuum of care and serves as a liaison throughout the facility and in the community regarding services provided for the oncology patient population.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

· Identifies potential and realized barriers to care (e.g. transportation, child and/or elder care, housing, language, culture, literacy, role disparity, psychosocial, employment, financial, insurance) facilitating referrals as appropriate to mitigate barriers.

· Provides and/or reinforces education to patients, families, and caregivers about diagnosis, treatment options, side effect management, and post treatment care/survivorship. Collaborates with the survivorship coordinator to provide survivorship care.

· Tracks metrics and patient outcomes to document and evaluate outcomes of the navigation program.

· Participates in coordination of the plan of care with the multidisciplinary team promoting timely follow up on treatment and supportive care recommendations. Acts as a liaison and advocate between patients, families, caregivers, and providers to optimize patient outcomes.

· Collaborates with the cancer committee and UMCPP administration to ensure compliance of standard 3.1 American College of Surgeons Commissions on Cancer (ACoS CoC) is fulfilled and maintained.

 

Benefits You’ll Receive at PMPH/Penn Medicine:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, RX coverage plan options that best fit your personal & family needs
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts (FSA/HAS) to save pre-tax dollars
• 403b Retirement Savings: Our employer contribution begins on Day 1 of your employment
• Generous Paid Time Off benefits that give you the work-life balance today’s world needs
• Prepaid tuition assistance is available to benefit-eligible employees for approved courses of study after completing six months of employment.

 

What We Require for this Role:

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Master’s Degree (preferred)

 

Related Work Experience

· Minimum of 5-8 of nursing experience required

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT

• Current license to practice nursing in State of NJ required
• OCN certification

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.