Nurse Navigator - Breast Health Services - 8 Hour Days
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Application
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Posted: 11-Dec-24
Location: Los Angeles, California
Internal Number: 6719
Job Description
Do you have a passion for the highest clinical quality and patienthappiness? Would you like to use your expertclinical competencies with an organization known nationally for excellence in cancer treatment, research and education? We would be happy to hear from you! Please consider the following exciting opportunity with one of the most outstanding and dynamic places to work in California as your next career move.
The path through breast cancer care is different for everyone. Cedars-Sinai has assembled a team of experienced expertsdedicated to fulfilling our patients??? unique needs. The breast cancer program offers care for high-risk patients, nurse navigators, fertility preservation, and research and clinical trials found only at Cedars-Sinai. We are seeking a highly compassionate Nurse Navigator with strong clinical competencies to guide patients from the diagnosis and pre-op to post-op stages of their treatment.
Summary of Essential Duties:
Coordinatetimely patient care activities and management of clinical data throughout all phases of patient care from initial referral to follow-up.
Arranges for clinical services, evaluates clinical data, participates in clinical/ patient rounds, and triages clinical questions/ concerns to the appropriate members of the interdisciplinary team.
Assess educational needs in collaboration with all levels of nursing and medical personnel and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of educational programs, utilizinga systematic approach.
Collaborates throughout the Cedars-Sinai Health system (CSHS) in initiating and implementing educational programs.
Establishes, coordinates and continuously evaluates supportive care plan with goals and interventions based upon treatment and individual patient/caregiver needs, preferences, beliefs and values.
Independently coordinatespatient programs, projects and events with Nursing, medical center departments and communities across the health care continuum.
Serves as a resource and consultant for educational programs throughout the Cedars-Sinai Health System.
Qualifications:
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Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor???s of Science in Nursing degree required
License/Certification:
Current, unrestricted California Registered Nurse License required
Oncology Certification (OCN) required (or willing to obtain within one year from start date)
BLS from American Heart Association required
Experience:
A minimum of 3 years of Oncology nursing experience required
Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal communication, with persons of various cultural and educational backgrounds required
Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.Cedars-Sinai will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.At Cedars-Sinai, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu). For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through March each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment.
Req ID : 6719 Working Title : Nurse Navigator - Breast Health Services - 8 Hour Days Department : Breast Health Services Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Job Category : Clinical Operations Job Specialty : Clinical Operations Overtime Status : EXEMPT Primary Shift : Day Shift Duration : 8 hour Base Pay : $54.02 - $86.43
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.