Nurse Navigator – Inpatient/Outpatient Transplant and Cellular Therapy

Nemours is seeking a Nurse Navigator – Inpatient/Outpatient Transplant and Cellular Therapy to join our Nemours Children’s Health team in Wilmington, DE.

This position is responsible for coordination of a high level of service and quality of care to individuals requesting outpatient service for the Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders (LDMFI-CBD) and sub-specialties where patients of the LDMFI-CBD are treated. The Inpatient/Outpatient Transplant and Cellular Therapy (TCT) Nurse Navigator will serve as an advocate for complex patients, their families, and caregivers, to overcome health care system barriers.

The primary functions include:

• Improve patient’s access to care by assuring efficient and effective coordination of patient care between admissions, visits, including scans, complex scheduling, and sub-specialty interface.
• Triage newly diagnosed patient and family with complex needs in the inpatient and outpatient setting and provide procedure related information during the scheduling process.
• Collaborate with the physicians, members of the healthcare team, and the patient/family to maintain a plan to deliver quality healthcare in the inpatient and outpatient setting, and in the home environment, focusing on educational and resource needs.
• Provide guidance and education for the highly complex patient and family to ensure the patient receives the necessary care, throughout the continuum of care.
• Coordination and delegation for prior authorizations and peer to peer for highly complex patients.
• Collaborate with the LDMFI-CBD specialty nurses for care coordination and cross coverage as needed.
• Evaluate the patient/family response to care on an ongoing basis.

Requirements

BSN from accredited program

Current, unrestricted DE Registered Nurse License required (subject to change based on patient base).

Specialty Certification: CPON/CPHON certification preferred.

Minimum 5 years of pediatric hematology/oncology nursing experience required