BHMG
Pulmonary & Critical Care
The Nurse Navigator serves as the primary point of contact for physicians and other healthcare providers, patients and their caregiver/family, and other resource-based entities, providing and accessing clinical and supportive care services offered within the multidisciplinary teams at Baptist Health Hardin and other entities as needed. The Nurse Navigator serves as an integral part of the care team within the Baptist Health Hardin Cancer Care Services department, coordinating effective and comprehensive services through the continuum of care for patients from the time of all breast-related diagnoses (cancer-related or suspicious findings), with treatment and support service options and through the recovery phase of care. The Nurse Navigator serves as an educator, advocate, and communicator for the patient and patient caregiver/family and proactively develops processes that streamline and improve the clinical experience for both the patient and their healthcare provider(s). The Nurse Navigator will demonstrate through organizational skills the ability to provide ease and patient safety in the operational flow of the accessed Baptist Health Hardin departments. Additionally, the Nurse Navigator will also work closely as a liaison throughout Baptist Health Hardin and in the hospital’s service region with Marketing/Community Outreach/Health & Wellness educating all parties on the services provided at Baptist Health Hardin for prevention, screening/detection of breasts-related diagnoses, treatment programs and palliative services for the affected patient population. The Nurse Navigator demonstrates the broad-based knowledge, skill, and coordination to provide nursing care and guidance to the cancer patient from screening to survivorship in a manner that is supportive of Baptist Health Hardin’s mission and vision statements. This position requires a collegial and collaborative working style to fulfill these specific work functions.
Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required:
BSN required
Three years of job-related experience required
Current unrestricted licensure as a registered nurse in the state of Kentucky required.
Work Experience
Education
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 nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 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 the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 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 nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
