Location: Columbia, Missouri

Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm

Department: Ellis Fischel Cancer Center - Medical Oncology Team

Salary Range: $75,725 - $109,554/year - final salary based on experience

ABOUT THE JOB

MU Health Care is looking for a dynamic Nurse Navigator to join the medical oncology team at the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. We seek a candidate who embodies compassion, collaboration, and commitment to enhancing patient care. In this role, you will be a vital link in our multi-disciplinary team, working to improve the quality of patient care and ensuring cost-effective outcomes. The ideal candidate will excel in coordinating care across the continuum, acting as a valuable resource for patients and their families, and providing education on disease processes and treatment plans. Your passion for driving best practices and reducing fragmentation in healthcare will make a meaningful impact on our patients' lives. Join us in delivering exceptional care and being a catalyst for positive change in healthcare.

ABOUT MU HEALTH CARE
MU Health Care is a growing academic health system in mid-Missouri comprised of multiple hospitals - including the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and region's only Children's Hospital - and over 50 specialty clinics located throughout the region.
As an MU Health Care employee, you'll be part of an exceptional team committed to our mission of saving and improving lives. Our core values of inclusion, respect, service, discovery, responsibility and excellence foster a collaborative work environment where you can grow your career.

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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

• Health, vision and dental insurance coverage starting day one
• Generous paid leave and paid time off, including nine holidays
• Multiple retirement options, including 100% matching up to 8% and full vesting in three years
• Tuition assistance for employees (75%) and immediate family members (50%)
• Discounts on cell phone plans, rental cars, gyms, hotels and more
• See a comprehensive list of benefits here.

JOB DUTIES
Coordinate care along the continuum for specified disease processes or populations.
Act as a resource for patients, families, nursing staff and other health care professionals in area of expertise.
Provide education on disease process and individualized treatment plan to patients and caregivers.
Drive best practices around programmatic quality indicators and lead/participate in quality/performance improvement activities.
Create processes specific to disease area of focus to assure access to care is achieved in a timely manner.
Deliver transitional care per area of specialty to assure appropriate level of care and compliance with treatment plan. Provide triage/symptom management and route patient to appropriate level of care.
Assure care pathways/order sets are followed per disease specialty.
Review disease specific mortalities and 30 day readmission for improvement opportunities.
Provide populations at risk with systematic, coordinated care management to reduce fragmentation and cost of care. Provide care management services as contractually obligated.
Reduce variations in care and coordinate amongst specialty and primary care providers.
May complete unit/department specific duties as outlined in department documents.

Missouri Board of Nursing RN or Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state RN. When primary state of residency changes, compact state RNs must apply under new state of residency within thirty (30) days.

One of the following:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and three (3) years of RN experience; or
• Five (5) years of RN experience; or
• One (1) year of RN experience and five (5) years of LPN care coordination navigator experience.

Preferred Qualifications
Additional license/certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. The employee may be required ambulate, remain in a stationary position and position self to reach and/or move objects above the shoulders and below the knees. The employee may be required to move objects up to 10 lbs.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The University of Missouri System is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal Opportunity is and shall be provided for all employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their demonstrated ability and competence without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable state or federal law. This policy applies to all employment decisions including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotions, pay practices, benefits, disciplinary actions and terminations. For more information, visit https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/hr/eeo.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable state or federal law.