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About the Role
The Oncology Nurse Navigator (ONN) provides individual assistance to patients, families, and caregivers to overcome healthcare system barriers and ensure timely access to quality care within a community oncology setting. The role utilizes the nursing process to educate patients and connect them to relevant internal and external resources, aiming to facilitate informed decision-making and timely access to high-quality health and psychosocial care throughout the cancer continuum. This involves routine collaboration with internal departments and external referral resources, as well as regular interface with practice leadership, physicians, and clinical staff.
Responsibilities
- Performs coordination of care during the full continuum of cancer care experience.
- Identifies potential and real gaps in care delivery and seeks opportunities for avoidance or closure.
- Prepares for, organizes, and leads the Patient Care Conference (huddle) at regular intervals and communicates interventional outcomes to the care team.
- Performs assessment of patient risk stratification.
- Performs basic psychosocial assessments, provides emotional support, and makes referrals for additional screening and support as needed.
- Develops appropriate nursing diagnoses and corresponding action plans.
- Supports and/or provides oral chemotherapy education, adherence, and side effect monitoring.
- Holds or participates in survivorship and advance care planning visits and makes referrals as needed.
- Participates in research, quality, and performance improvement initiatives, including reporting on navigation metrics.
- Supports patient advocacy and empowerment.
- Participates in community outreach and cancer prevention education.
- Maintains knowledge of practice operations guidelines, practice organization, and healthcare economics.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s prepared Registered Nurse (BSN).
- Oncology Certification (OCN) preferred.
- Nurse Navigator Certification a plus.
- 5 years of work experience as a Registered Nurse in an oncology practice or clinic.
- Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to apply the full nursing process in day-to-day clinical operations, including assessment, analysis, nursing diagnosis, care planning, implementation, and outcomes evaluation.
- Ability to assess health disparities, identify needs of populations and cultures, describe a patient navigation process to address those needs, and document outcomes.
- Ability to prioritize and re-prioritize quickly.
- Strong organizational and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to apply and/or oversee care coordination in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Working computer and internet skills, including experience with an electronic EMR system.
- Basic knowledge of local community resources.
- Exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medical preparations, and other conditions common to an oncology/hematology clinic environment may occur.
- Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
- Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
- Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 40 lbs.
- Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
- Required to lift and assist patients as requested.
Skills
- Leadership
- Interpersonal skills
- Collaboration
- Nursing process application
- Assessment
- Analysis
- Nursing diagnosis
- Care planning
- Implementation
- Outcomes evaluation
- Health disparity assessment
- Patient navigation process development
- Outcome documentation
- Prioritization
- Critical thinking
- Care coordination
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Computer skills
- Internet skills
- EMR system usage
- Community resource knowledge
Location
- Austin Midtown
Work Type
- Full-time
- Monday-Friday
- 8:30am-5pm
- No weekends
- No call
- No major holidays
Experience Level
- 5 years work experience as a Registered Nurse in an oncology practice or clinic
Education Level
- Bachelor’s prepared Registered Nurse (BSN)
- Oncology Certification (OCN) preferred
- Nurse Navigator Certification a plus
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Generous PTO program
- 401k plan with company match
- Wellness program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance program
- Discounts on retailers
- Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP)
About the Company
- Texas Oncology is the largest community oncology provider in the country with approximately 600+ providers in 220+ sites across Texas and southeastern Oklahoma.
- The company's founders believed in making the best available cancer care accessible to all communities, allowing people to fight cancer at home with the support of family and friends.
- The mission is to use leading-edge technology and research to deliver high-quality, high-touch, evidence-based cancer care to help patients achieve “More breakthroughs. More victories.” ® in their fight against cancer.
- Texas Oncology treats half of all Texans diagnosed with cancer annually.
- The company recognizes the long-term impact of its people and is committed to rewarding performance and potential.
- Select roles may be eligible to participate in the Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), an incentive program designed to attract, retain, and reward top talent.
- LTIP typically vests over a three-year period and is tied to both individual performance and the operational success of Texas Oncology.
- LTIP awards are discretionary and based on position, performance, and potential for future career growth, reviewed and approved during the annual compensation review.
- LTIP awards are subject to continued employment through the award payment date and are governed by the written terms and conditions of the LTIP document.