Job description
It's more than a career, it's a calling
WI-REMOTE
Worker Type: Regular
Preferred Candidates: proficient in a clinical setting
creating initiatives
Training would require on site needs (MUST BE WISCONSIN RESIDENT)
Job Summary: Provides services as a patient navigator throughout the continuum of care.
Responsibilities
- Functions as a liaison for management staff, administration, physicians, managed care companies, community organizations, and other customers.
Collaborates with physicians and advanced practice providers to ensure quality outcomes. Coordinates efforts for treatment and promotes quality improvement and educational efforts.
Compiles data, tracks outcomes, and makes recommendations for process improvement.
Provides referrals/support for follow-up care for patients who are uninsured or underinsured.
Utilizes the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation in all patient encounters.
Assists medical provider with processing of diagnostic results bringing significant values to the provider’s attention. Exhibits knowledge of tests and procedures and their significance as related to patient care.
Recognizes the implementation of dosages, interactions, side effects, adverse effects, routes of administration of drugs as they apply to individual patients. Uses knowledge of medications in instructing patients about medication therapy.
Establishes working relationships teaching protocols for patient education, family counseling and general public information.
Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- EDUCATION: Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
Experience
Three years' registered nurse experience
Physical Requirements: Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
Constant standing and walking.
Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
Occasional driving.
Rare crawling and running.
Required Professional License And/Or Certifications
State of Work Location: Illinois
Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
And
Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
State of Work Location: Missouri
Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
And
Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
Or
Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
And
Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
Or
Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
And
Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
Or
Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
About SSM Health
SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit, fully integrated health system dedicated to advancing innovative, sustainable, and compassionate care for patients and communities throughout the Midwest and beyond. The organization’s 40,000 team members and 13,900 providers are committed to fulfilling SSM Health’s Mission: “Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.”
With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes hospitals, physician offices, outpatient and virtual care services, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a fully transparent pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves. For more information, visit ssmhealth.com
