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Nurse Navigator - Women's Health
UPMC is hiring a full-time Nurse Navigator to join their women's health specialty services in the Horizon-Hermitage area! This position will join our The Pregnancy and Women's Recovery Center, which is a program that provides both Inpatient and Outpatient addiction medicine services. We provide comprehensive, coordinated, and compassionate care to women with substance use disorder. The professional in this position will be a member of a multidisciplinary team of substance use treatment providers (e.g., physicians, APP's, social services providers, peer recovery specialists) who will provide evidence-based, comprehensive, substance use and women's health services in both the outpatient and inpatient setting The Nurse Navigator will collaborate with the IP and OP interdisciplinary health care providers to assess, plan, intervene, evaluate, and document care in an individualized manner which promotes patient safety and healing. This position will work Monday through Friday, daylight hours with no evenings, weekends, or holidays! This position will train at Magee Women's Hospital in Oakland for two weeks, mileage reimbursement provided. After training, this position will travel between both inpatient and outpatient offices, both within the Hermitage and Horizon area. Responsibilities: * Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team in guiding the patient and family in regard to diagnostic and treatment options. Provides emotional support specialized patient care, support and educational needs. Assumes the role of care coordinator and patient advocate throughout the process. * Uses all components of the nursing process, to provide comprehensive nursing care, support and education to patients and their families during screening and diagnostic tests, treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation. * Provides expert knowledge of specialty (i.e. women's, breast health, oncology, etc.) issues to health care professionals and patients/families. Works closely with the interdisciplinary team to meet the education and development needs of the professional and ancillary staff. * Possesses the ability to obtain and interpret information considering age specific needs. Provides health promotion, disease prevention, and nursing care while cognizant of age, developmental status, culture, ethnicity, and sexual orientation to individual patients and members of the community. * Integrates current research findings and technology into practice, performance improvement, and education as appropriate. * Participates in the evaluation of patient care and programs through quality improvement activities. Identifies and coordinates performance improvement activities, including monitoring, evaluation, and development of appropriate outcomes; participates in processes to implement change. * Monitors changes in legislation and regulations to assure that effective actions are taken in a timely and consistent manner. * Demonstrates UPMC's commitment to service excellence by understanding the needs of patients, their families, physicians and co-workers and doing what is required the first time, every time by being responsible, sensitive, accurate, timely, coordinated and thorough * Assesses and addresses the educational needs of individual patients and members of the community as a whole, in regard to health issues with an emphasis on specialty practice. Participates in the evaluation and development of patient education materials and provides individualized teaching based on needs of the patients and the community. * Provides staff development and serves as a clinical resource and consultant to members of the interdisciplinary team, identifying additional resources as needed. * Coordinates tests, treatments, referrals and appointments as necessary to meet the physical, spiritual and psycho-social needs of the patient and family. Provides clinical support and patient care during procedures. * Works as a team member to plan, develop, market and implement community health and wellness educational programming and health care services, with an emphasis on specialty care. Qualifications: * RN with Bachelor's Degree preferred. * Three to five years of current clinical experience required. Preferred experience with the population served (i.e. women's health, breast health, oncology, etc.) Must be self-directed and possess strong leadership and communication skills. Demonstrated knowledge and clinical competence in the area of specialty with an emphasis on wellness and disease prevention throughout the life continuum. Demonstrates ability for high degree of analysis, critical thinking and independent clinical judgment. This position typically reports to Department Manager/Nurse Manager Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances: Registered Nurse currently licensed in the practicing state. Current certification in specialty or obtained within one year CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire * Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) * Registered Nurse (RN) * Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state. UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran UPMC has a Center for Engagement and Inclusions that is charged with executing leading-edge and next- generation diversity strategies to advance the organization's diversity management capability and its national presence as a diversity leader. This includes having Employee Resources Groups, such as PRIDE Health or UPMC ENABLED (Empowering Abilities and Leveraging Difference) Network, that support the implementation of our diversity strategy.
Pay
Average Pennsylvania Staff Position Pay
$49.76/hour
Estimate based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data.