Nurse Navigator Colorectal Pelvic Center RN

Job Title & Specialty Area: Nurse Navigator Colorectal Pelvic Center and Pectus Registered Nurse

Department: Office of the Chief Medical Office

Location: Primarily Dallas Campus with 1 shift a week on Plano Campus

Shift: M - F 8-5

Job Type: On-Site

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Through our cutting‑edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well‑being. Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community.

Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

The Nurse Navigator – Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO) collaborates with providers and clinical areas to coordinate service and ensure quality of care for patients. The nurse independently assesses, evaluates and implements care delivered for a designated population of patients. The Nurse Navigator – Office of the Chief Medical Officer provides patients, families, and caregivers with tailored support along the care continuum to expedite and coordinate care and address health system barriers.

With an emphasis on high‑risk patients or those with complicated care needs, the Nurse Navigator – OCMO coordinates patient care through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teamwork to obtain optimal patient outcomes. The Nurse Navigator - OCMO is focused on enhancing care transitions and patient adherence. The Nurse Navigator - OCMO helps establish and maintain ties with community resources to create a seamless model of care that benefits patients, family members, clinicians, and the healthcare team.

• Responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating and coordinating patient care. Uses clinical judgment based on nursing skills acquired through formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence based guidelines to globally assess the patient's situation and through critical thinking and clinical decision making, develop an appropriate plan of care for the patient, with the aim of promoting comfort.
• Accountable that patient care meets standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations.
• Accurately & thoroughly document all patient encounters in EPIC.
• Ensure that Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected and secured at all times.
• Adhere to all infection prevention initiatives (i.e., hand hygiene, proper disposal of waste, etc.)
• Deliver competent and skilled care to patients and familites according to their identified needs.
• Serves as primary contact and advocate for patient; builds and maintains trust of patient and family; provide emotional support; navigate the health care system using knowledge of the intricacies of each system and serving as the patient advocate assuring timely access.
• Provides education and information to the patient and family, helping to make the care seamless, continuous, and comprehensive. Initiates and documents patient teaching including family and significant others based on assessment of needs.
• Responds to patient request for information regarding the disease process, and community resources. Uses appropriate patient Education documentation modality.
• Utilize disease‑specific clinical pathways to ensure effective clinical / disease management.
• Collaborates with the health care team to identify resources available for the patient/family; provides. Coordinates the provision of education for patient and family regarding the plan of care and health care needs. Assures implementation and monitors pathways and patient care protocols.
• Collaborates with health care team on the plan of care, referrals and ongoing needs of the patient. Participates in communication and coordination of this plan of care with the social worker and case manager and other health care team as necessary.
• Improves quality through reduction in treatment delays, use of clinical…