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About this role
Job Summary:
Provides individualized assistance to oncology patients, families, and caregivers to identify and minimize barriers to care. Promotes achievement of organizational and departmental objectives and strategic plan.
Definition of Shared Governance: Shared Governance is a professional structural model, founded on the cornerstone principles of partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership that form a culturally sensitive and empowering framework, enabling sustainable and accountability-based decisions to support an interdisciplinary design for excellent patient care.
Essential Job Duties:
- Facilitates the patient's timely access to medical and psychosocial care across the continuum from screening, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, survivorship and/or end of life.
- Coordinates a seamless model of access and care benefiting patients, family members, and participating physicians throughout the GSH system including both primary and secondary service areas.
- Utilizes a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to maximize utilization of resources and minimize duplication of services.
- Maintains effective and timely communication with all members of the patient's healthcare team.
- Actively seeks and participates in educational opportunities, both formal and informal, to achieve and maintain knowledge and skill related to job responsibilities.
- Attends patient care conferences, and other cancer program meetings as appropriate.
- Facilitates interdisciplinary care planning meetings as appropriate.
- Participates in planning, implementation, and evaluation of community needs assessment at least once every three years.
- Collects data, documents, and provides report to Cancer Committee on an annual basis to include: identified health disparities, description of navigation process, populations served and barriers identified, documentation of activities and metrics (outcomes), and areas for PI/QI enhancement and future directions.
- Maintains documentation related to navigation in appropriate eMR (Magview, EPIC, etc.)
- Apply for nursing council or committee and be vested on one council at least every 5 years. 80% attendance in person or by phone is required. Advancements in Clinical Ladder will be reflected in yearly application process and is expected for job performance standards.
Secondary Job Duties That May be Reassigned:
- Represent Oncology Program in community activities
- Assists with marketing strategies to help promote program
- Breast Navigator will also be responsible for assisting physician in Breast Center as designated by GSPN Operations Manager.
- Breast Navigator will cross train to provide nursing coverage to the Breast Care Center.
Thank you for your interest in employment at Good Samaritan Hospital. Please provide all information requested to assure that all your qualifications are fairly considered for current or future vacancies. Your application will remain in our active files for six months. After six months, re-application is necessary. The submission of this application does not automatically result in an employment interview or job offer.
Other facts
About Good Samaritan
For more than 100 years, Good Samaritan has been a health care leader in southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Located in historic Vincennes, Good Samaritan is a 158-bed community health care facility with over 1,800 employees and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient care.
Good Samaritan offers a broad range of medical services as well as some of the most progressive technology available today. The Gibault Memorial Tower, opened in 2015, provides our patients, their families and our entire community an environment where the highest quality of care is provided. An array of services and staff are ready to greet patients with medical expertise, cutting-edge technology and big hearts. The tower has five floors, each with a focus: Cardiology and Clinical Decision, Intensive Care, Pediatrics and Medical Surgery, Joint Replacement and Medical Surgery, and Women’s Health and Oncology.
The hospital also has a state-of-the-art Same Day Surgery Center, with surgical suites designed with input from the hospital’s physicians.
The Cancer Pavilion is a 25,000-square-foot comprehensive oncology care center, featuring one of the most advanced methods for delivering radiation therapy, a linear accelerator with IMRT. The Pavilion also has 12 fully equipped infusion suites and other amenities for patients and families.
Good Samaritan is proud that generations of families have chosen us as their preferred health-care provider, allowing us to be the first, best place in health care.
Mission: Provide excellent health care by promoting wellness, education and healing through trusting relationships.
Vision: To be the regional center of excellence in health care to support the communities we serve.
Our Promise: We promise to treat you like family by delivering compassionate, high-quality care throughout your journey.
PRIDE Values
Patient | Respect | Integrity | Dignity | Excellence
What you'll do
- The Patient Navigator facilitates timely access to medical and psychosocial care for oncology patients and coordinates care across the healthcare continuum. They also participate in community needs assessments and maintain effective communication with the healthcare team.
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