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RN Navigator
Trinity Health · West Des Moines, IA
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Employment Type
Full time
Description
Develop, implement, and evaluate clinical practice guidelines/care paths for patients.
- · Collaborate with all of the health care team, to assist in the provision of quality patient care, and
About the Job
facilitate the identification of potential care problems.
- · Assist as a liaison with patients and their families to physicians, staff, and other health care
professionals, to coordinate patient care across all settings, and ensure high quality outcomes.
- · Welcome calls from patients and families, answering questions concerning care, and follow-up as
necessary.
- · Proactively act as a patient advocate, working to overcome patient barriers, and resolve
concerns.
- · Provide educational information and resources to patients, to assist patients and family with
coping, and foster self-care activities.
- · Review literature, methodology, outcomes, and implications of nursing/medical research, and
disseminate findings.
- · Establish and maintain a knowledge base of on-going clinical research activities.
- · Perform other duties as assigned.
- Job Requirements / Qualifications
a. Education / Accreditation / Licensure (required & preferred)
- · Graduate of an accredited school of nursing program required.
- · Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.
- · Current/valid RN license from the state licensing board required.
- · Basic Life Support (BLS) or Advanced Care Life Support (ACLS) required.
- · Mandatory Reporter for the appropriate patient population required.
b. Experience (required and preferred)
- · 1 year experience in a clinic or acute hospital nursing setting required.