Nurse Navigator - Lansing Neurosurgery Clinic

Position Summary: Provides direct patient care and comprehensive coordination of care for patients and their families/caregivers. Eliminates barriers to timely care, facilitates flow through system, increases patient and provider satisfaction, maintains point of contact with providers and serves as the first point of contact for patients and families. Provides a full range of nursing services, including assessment, treatment planning and therapeutic interventions in an interdisciplinary environment consistent with professional practices and ethical standards.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Provides direct patient nursing care for specified patients
2. Performs nursing assessments and triage of patient care needs for new and ongoing patients.
3. Oversees the planning, scheduling, and implementation of day-to-day clinical activities and procedures for navigated patients.
4. Central point of contact for all navigated patients; including interaction with medical, nursing, ancillary services.
5. Provides education to patients, families, and significant others; acts as an information resource to students, health care professionals, patients, and the public.

Required:

• Nursing degree from an accredited educational institution.
• State licensure as a registered nurse.
• Three years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• For clinics with the Rural Health Designation, Basic Life Support (BLS) issued by the American Heart Association (AHA), American Red Cross (ARC), and Canadian equivalents, (MHC approved providers for the resuscitation certification) is required within 6 months of hire

Preferred: 

• Bachelor's degree in nursing.
• One year prior work experience in clinical area.