Nurse Navigator: Structural Heart
Job ID:
R135799
Shift:
1st
Full/Part Time:
Full_time
Pay Range:
$38.60 – $57.90
Location:
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital – 1775 Dempster St
Park Ridge, IL 60068
Benefits Eligible:
Yes
Hours Per Week:
40
Our Commitment to You:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
Compensation
- Base compensation within the position’s pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
- Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate’s job
- Incentive pay for select positions
- Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Routinely Monday through Friday
Title: Nurse Navigator – Structural Heart
Scheduled Hours:
- Monday through Friday
- 8 hour shifts during the day
- Full Time-80 hours a pay period
Job Summary:
As navigator for Structural Heart, RN will work collaboratively with structural heart team, inpatient, outpatient, PCPs, cardiologists and other healthcare providers to ensure effective and efficient throughput of structural heart patients.
Within their responsibilities the Structural Heart (SH) RN Navigator will maintain ongoing database and additional data to manage with structural heart team to improve/expand program. Provides professional expertise in management of SH care across the continuum of care. Collaborates with physicians, nursing staff, and other health care providers to provide services to SH patients and caregivers.
The nurse assists with initial evaluations with focus on physical assessment, education, discharge planning, disease management, ongoing monitoring and early interventions to provide quality cost effective care. May establish relationship with the patient/families after discharge from hospital and work collaboratively with their physician.
Position Requirements:
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with Current IL RN license
- BSN required
- Current CPR and ACLS
- Must possess at minimum 3 years of recent acute cardiac care nursing experience
- Certification in your current area of specialty within 2 years of hire
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Good physical and psychosocial assessment skills
- Ability to be self directed and responsible for work
- Able to problem solve and prioritize efficiently
- Able to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary team
- Strong teaching and coaching skills related to life style modifications
- Must be mobile to see patients in all hospital units. Some travel to extended care facilities and nursing agencies
- Work environment includes probability of exposure to adverse, hazardous, or unpleasant conditions while caring for the sick
- Ability to respond to patients in a timely manner
- Flexible hours
- The candidate must be able to perform physical tasks such as lifting patients and moving equipment
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds occasionally and/or 25 pounds frequently and/or 20 pounds constantly.
Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois and a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. One of the state’s largest private employers, the system serves patients across 11 hospital locations, including two children’s campuses, and more than 250 sites of care. Advocate Health Care, in addition to Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin and Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, is now a part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides nearly $5 billion in annual community benefits.
