Clinical Nurse, Hematological Malignancy Hematology Nurse Navigator at Portland, OR (Waterfront) – Portland, Oregon

RN Navigator works with the Providers to ensure that all baseline clinical information, both diagnostic and therapeutic, is gathered together in a systematic fashion prior to the patients visit. They work to ensure that new patients are prepared for the testing, evaluation and potential outcome of the visits ahead of time

The RN Navigator collaborates with the Team Coordinators and Managed Care Coordinators to ensure that all appropriate business related information is gathered prior to the visit, authorizations have been obtained and pre-registration has taken place.

The RN Navigator may be called upon to assign tasks to team members after assessing patient needs, staff skills and resources.

The RN Navigator collaborates with other members of the team to ensure that patient flow is expedited during clinical practice sessions.

The RN Navigator ensures that Provider orders that result from the new patient visit are recorded and executed. They also works to ensure that laboratory and other diagnostic findings are available to clinicians in a timely fashion after tests are performed. S/he tracks the post visit flow information to ensure that plans of care are executed in a timely fashion.

The RN Navigator ensures that when hospitalization is required; those patients and their family members understand prior to admission, what they can expect during the pre-hospitalization, hospital stay and post discharge period. The RN Navigator is expected to troubleshoot any problems that patients and their families may encounter in preparing for or during their hospital stay.

Ambulatory Oncology coordination experience preferred.