Nurse Navigator

Shift: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. – evenings and weekends as required.

• Work Arrangement: On-Site
• Department: Ambulatory Care Management
• Facility: South Providence Medical Building – 551 Veterans United Dr. Columbia, MO 65201

Compensation

• Base Pay Range: $75,275.20 - $109,553.60 per year, based on experience.

About the Job

MU Health Care is looking for a passionate and dynamic Nurse Navigator to join our team and make a profound impact on patient care. If you are a proactive problem-solver with a talent for fostering collaboration across various healthcare teams, this role is for you.

We seek an individual who excels in coordinating care, educating patients, and driving quality improvements with enthusiasm and dedication. At MU Health Care, you'll thrive in a supportive environment where your expertise will help streamline patient journeys and enhance outcomes.

Bring your commitment to compassionate care and innovation to our team, and together, let's transform the patient experience. Apply now to be a key player in delivering exceptional, coordinated care.

About MU Health Care

MU Health Care is proud to be named one of Forbes’ Best-in-State Employers seven years in a row, and that’s largely a result of the incredible culture and team we’ve built. At MU Health Care, we have an inspired, hard-working and collaborative environment driven by our mission to save and improve lives.

Here, we believe anything is possible and rally around solutions. We celebrate innovation and offer opportunities to be a part of something bigger — to have a voice and role in the work that is serving our community and changing the field of medicine.

Our academic health system — the only in mid-Missouri — is home to seven hospitals, including the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and region’s only Children’s Hospital, as well as over 90 specialty clinics. Here you can define your career among our many clinical and nonclinical positions — with growth, opportunity and support every step of the way.

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Employee Benefits

• Health, vision and dental insurance coverage starting day one
• Generous paid leave and paid time off, including nine holidays
• Multiple retirement options, including 100% matching up to 8% and full vesting in three years
• Tuition assistance for employees (75%) and immediate family members (50%)
• Discounts on cell phone plans, rental cars, gyms, hotels and more
• See a comprehensive list of benefits here.

Detailed Job Description

• Coordinate care along the continuum for specified disease processes or populations.
• Act as a resource for patients, families, nursing staff, and other health care professionals in their area of expertise.
• Provide education on disease processes and individualized treatment plans to patients and caregivers.

Drive best practices around programmatic quality indicators and lead/participate in quality/performance improvement activities.

Create processes specific to the disease area of focus to ensure access to care is achieved in a timely manner.

Deliver transitional care per area of specialty to ensure an appropriate level of care and compliance with a treatment plan.

• Provide triage/symptom management and route the patient to the appropriate level of care.
• Assure care pathways/order sets are followed per disease specialty.
• Review disease-specific mortalities and 30-day readmission for improvement opportunities.
• Provide populations at risk with systematic, coordinated care management to reduce fragmentation and cost of care.
• Provide care management services as contractually obligated.
• Reduce variations in care and coordinate amongst specialty and primary care providers.
• May complete unit/department specific duties as outlined in department documents.

Required Qualifications

• Missouri Board of Nursing RN or Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state RN. When primary state of residency changes, compact state RNs must apply under new state of residency within thirty (30) days.
• One of the following: o --Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and three (3) years of RN experience; or o --five (5) years of RN experience; or o --one (1) year of RN experience and five (5) years of LPN care coordination o navigator experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional license/certification requirements as determined by hiring department.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. This position is very active and requires ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 lbs.

This role also routinely comes into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses. This position is in a health care facility open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Rotating shifts as well as holiday and work during inclement weather will be required.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.