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Munson Healthcare
Traverse City, Michigan

Nurse Navigator - Clinically Integrated Network

Registered NurseNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

  • Company Description
  • Location: 1221 Sixth Street, Suite 300 Traverse City, Michigan 49684
  • Schedule: Full Time: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • More Than Just Care, It’s Community

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material.

To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance.

Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.

Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges.

Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

Job Description

A Day in the Life

The navigator functions in an organized and time conscious manner using effective customer service and interpersonal skills at all times.

The Nurse Navigator will act as a liaison between patients, professional staff and physicians by providing care management and care coordination for adult and pediatric patients, with complex conditions, with complex social needs, and education needs.

Serves in an expanded health care role to collaborate with primary care providers, specialists, members of the health care team, and patients/families to ensure the delivery of quality, efficient, and cost-effective health care services.

Assesses plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates all options and services with the goal of optimizing the patient’s health status and decreasing hospital and emergency room utilization.

Integrates evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols, in the development of individualized care plans that are patient-centric, promoting quality and efficiency in the delivery of health care

Qualifications

What’s Required

  • Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.
  • Bachelor of Science degree in nursing preferred.
  • Additional Information

Are you Munson Material? Apply today!

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.

Shift: Day Shift

Status: Full Time

Key Responsibilities

The Nurse Navigator acts as a liaison between patients, physicians, and the healthcare team to provide comprehensive care management and coordination. They develop and implement patient-centric care plans to optimize health status and reduce hospital utilization.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient advocacyPatient educationEvidence-based practiceHealth assessmentCare planningCollaborationPediatric nursingAdult nursing

Ambulatory Care Nursing — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 50 active Ambulatory Care Nursing listings this role was benchmarked against, 22% are remote, 62% have no call, 82% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Ambulatory Care Nursing pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Nurse Navigator - Clinically Integrated Network at Munson Healthcare a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Ambulatory Care Nursing (RN) — ranked against 387 active Ambulatory Care Nursing (RN) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Top Registered Nurse Jobs

34 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution30 jobs · 29 employers

10
<$95k
6
$95k-115k
9
$115k-135k
5
$135k-155k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
96%
Sign-on bonus
8%
Loan repayment
8%
CME allowance
4%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$93k-$151k
#2

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$136,708 - $150,000
#3

Assistant Director of Nursing

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#4

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+ 32 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 6.4
Better work-life than 80% of Ambulatory Care Nursing (RN) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 387 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • No nights
  • On-site

Living in Traverse City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$441k
Typical market rent
$1,888/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.4
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Traverse City, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Munson Healthcare

Hospitals and Health Care
Traverse City, MI
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Tuition reimbursement
Full benefits
Paid holidays
Generous PTO
Employee discounts
Free individual retirement counseling
Free wellness platform