Summary Job Description: Full Time 40 weekly hours, day shift Job Summary: The Nurse Navigator functions within the multidisciplinary team as an advocate, educator, and counselor for referred oncology patients with selected diagnoses, with an emphasis on patients diagnosed with rectal cancer. The Navigator is responsible for ensuring all patients referred with a cancer related diagnosis or suspicious finding receive effective and comprehensive services. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: The following is a summary of the major functions of this individual's job. He or she may perform other duties, both major and minor, that are not delineated below, and specific functions may change from time to time. Serve as the primary nurse navigator for rectal cancer patients, ensuring timely diagnostic assessments and smooth coordination of treatment plans. Assist with the scheduling and coordination of patient appointments across specialties, ensuring efficient use of resources and a streamlined patient experience. Provide patient education on diagnosis, treatment options, and care plans, acting as a resource for patients and families throughout their care journey. Conduct patient outreach and follow-up to ensure continuity of care and address any patient concerns or barriers to treatment. Oversee the coordination and facilitation of all tumor boards, ensuring the right multidisciplinary team is assembled for each case. Manage meeting logistics, including minute-taking, tracking action items, and ensuring compliance with continuing medical education (CME) reporting. Collaborate with physicians, surgeons, oncologists, and other clinical staff to ensure timely and accurate case presentations. Lead the program’s efforts to maintain and achieve accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC). Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required: A. Bachelor's degree in nursing. B. Master's degree preferred. C. ONCC certification required within 18 months of hire date. Ongoing certification is required. D. Minimum three years oncology experience required, with a strong knowledge base related to common types of cancers and treatment. E. Experience with common computer programs If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056. Job Applicant Privacy Policy Statement - Job Applicant Privacy Policy

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