Nurse Navigator Heart Failure

Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings. Develops a relationship with patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care.

Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patient's individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.

Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care and identifying barriers to care. Navigates patients and family members throughout the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care.

Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty.

Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in best patient outcomes. Evaluates, selects or designs patient education materials on specific disease site programs. Provides education and outreach programs to patients, Aurora staff and to members of the community.

Assist leadership in developing program vision, goals and objectives. Assists in the development, implementation and maintenance of quality programs that include best practice patient care outcomes including quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty.

Position

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with Current IL RN license BSN required Heart Failure (CHFN) Certification from Cardiovascular Nursing Education Associates (CNEA) needs to be obtained within 2 years 3-5 years experience in cardiology nursing that includes performing nursing assessments, care plan development and educating patients. Current AHA CPR Working knowledge of the components of quality and acute patient care needs specifically related to heart failure. Excellent analytical and interpersonal communication skills necessary to negotiate with families, patient, physicians and third party payers.

Demonstrated ability to work well with physicians and other professionals in a direct and positive manner.