Specialty Nurse Navigator - GI/Oncology - Torrey Pines Clinic

This is a Full-Time benefited position. Position works 4 10-hour shifts, with one being remote. Position does not require weekends or holidays.

Located at Scripps Green Torrey Pines Clinic, with occasional site travel as needed.

At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered, and your abilities are appreciated:

• Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
• Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2025.
• Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
• Becker's Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2024 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
• We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
• Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.

 We invite you to join our highly engaged team of Specialty Nurse Navigators.

As a Specialty Nurse Navigator, you will be responsible for:

• 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.

Required Education/Experience/Specialized Skills:  

• BSN plus 3 years’ recent clinical nursing experience in a variety of clinical settings.

Required Certification/Registration:

• CA RN License
• BLS if working in a clinical setting.
• ONS Chemotherapy and Biotherapy.

Preferred Education/Experience/Specialized Skills/Certification:

·         MSN.

·         OCN if working in Hematology, ONN-CG if working in Oncology area.

·         Ambulatory experience preferred.

·         Minimum of two years of outpatient experience managing the care of patients in oncology or a related specialty.

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