• Job Description

  Req#: R-38568

  Position Title

  Clinical Nurse Naviagtor - Remote, Kansas City

  Westwood Administration - East

  Position Summary / Career Interest:

  We are seeking a Clinical Nurse Navigator (CNN) to support the delivery of a new, coordinated model of care program, called RETAINWORKS being offered by The University of Kansas Health System. RETAINWORKS is designed to help individuals return to work who lose work time because they are ill or injured on or off the job. This is a remote position enabling the CNN to perform MOST of their role work from home and commute directly to clinics and inpatient areas at The University of Kansas Hospital as appropriate when their patients will be seen.
  • Primary role is to collaborate, communicate and facilitate coordination of services during enrolled patients' recovery from work disabilities that impair their ability to work as established by the healthcare team
  • Partners with primarily ambulatory care providers at the University of Kansas Hospital in Metro Kansas City with a defined group of patients who are identified and enrolled and would most benefit from early interventions to help workers return to work
  • Explains the protocols to participate in the program and enroll patients who are referred by their providers
  • Documents and maintains regular communication with the provider and patient as interventions are completed to help ensure the patient's continued progress
  • Oversees the day-to-day operations of the RETAINWORKS program as relate to their patient enrollees
  • Collaborates with local workforce centers who work with patient enrollees and employers to ensure training, accommodations and support services to ease patient enrollees' return to work when safe and medically able

  Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

  • Responsible for coordinating RETAINWORKS patients’ progression through defined early interventions to align with the treatment goals and restrictions established by patients’ providers, promotes effective utilization and monitoring of healthcare resources, and guides all participants toward positive quality outcomes
  • Communicates timely, relevant and accurate information to all parties involved with patient's care: patients, families, all members of the healthcare team, and community partners
  • Monitors the patient's progression towards the desired outcome
  • Manage the care of the patient population, developing expected patient outcomes, defining appropriate resource utilization, and working with providers and workforce center partners to set patient goals, and the patient to achieve them
  • Travel within assigned geography to participate in patient encounters and reinforce patients’ successes and challenges to ensure necessary adjustments to plan
  • Provide nursing support/coordination to participating providers’ practice to optimize patient outcomes and to improve patient’s quality of life through clinical and educational programs and/or support services
  • Advocate for and develop relationships with patients via weekly telephone check-ins, competently using assessment skills to identify physical, psychosocial, financial, and environmental health care needs of the patient
  • Utilize available electronic tools, such as local EMRs, Acrobat and Microsoft Office, to efficiently document assessments, clinical finds, plans of treatment and progress toward goals
  • Observe, record and report patient's condition and reaction to drugs and treatments, escalating issues and engaging provider as appropriate
  • Practice effective time management and organization skills to ensure appropriate time is committed to documentation, completing expense/mileage reports, and patient follow-up
  • Accurately and reliably tracks and reports completed interventions/activities to enable prompt payment of providers and patients
  • Educates patient/family about diagnostic procedures, medications, nutrition and maintenance of health and wellness
  • Maintains patient confidentiality
  • Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
  • These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

  
  Required Education and Experience

  • Associate Degree Nursing
  • 2 or more years of RN or LPN experiemce

  
  Preferred Education and Experience

  • Bachelor Degree Nursing
  • Previous medical office experience

  
  Required Licensure and Certification

  • Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA) within 14 days
  • Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse - licensed in the state in which they will be working and proof of compact licensure submitted/applied for in the state in which the employee lives in

  
  Knowledge Requirements

  • Basic typing and word processing ability
  • Excellent analytical, critical thinking, communication (written and verbal), problem-solving and interpersonal skills

  Time Type:

  Full time

  Job Requisition ID:

  R-38568

  We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.

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• About the company

  The University of Kansas Health System, commonly known as KU Med and formerly known as The University of Kansas Hospital, is a nonprofit, academic medical center located in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, with branch hospitals and education centers...

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