HiredNow AI
SIH

RN - Neuro Patient Navigator

$67,475 a year

  • Professional Office Building Carbondale

Found by HiredNow AI on Sep 15, 2026. Subscribers saw it first.

About the role

Current SIH employees need to apply for positions through our internal job portal. Log in to Workday to apply through the Jobs Hub.

Location: Carbondale, IL Shift: Days Time Type: Full-Time Facility/Clinic Name: Professional Office Building

Position Summary

  • Responsible for coordination of care for neurosurgery or neurology patient

population.

Principal Accountabilities

  • Standards of Performance: Respect, Integrity, Compassion, Collaboration,

Stewardship, Accountability, Quality

Education

  • Associate, Diploma, Bachelor Degree or Master’s in Nursing

Licenses and Certification

  • Current Illinois RN licensure

Experience and Skills

  • Technical Experience: 3 years

Physical Activities

  • Intermittent hand manipulation
  • Intermittent lifting and carrying of 20 lbs.

Role Specific Responsibilities

  • o Serves as a clinical expert to help neurosurgery or neurology patients
  • and families navigate the health care system.
  • o Provides initial coordination of care for patient receiving pre-appointment
  • treatment
  • o Reviews patient’s diagnosis, medical history, and physician disposition
  • and communicate information to patient.
  • o Directs patient to facilities listed on the Network Provider list when pre-appointment treatment is recommended and facilitates referrals to
  • these facilities
  • o Assists physicians in coordination of care of neuroscience or neurology
  • patients with other health care professionals.
  • o Refers patients to other community resources, as necessary
  • o Provides ongoing navigation for patients receiving pre-appointment
  • treatment
  • o Communicates written treatment completion information to the Primary
  • Care or referring physician if pre-treatment results in symptom resolution
  • and patient does not require an appointment with the Southern Illinois

Healthcare Brain and Spine Institute

  • o Provides on-going documentation of nurse navigation activities on each
  • patient, including the time involved in these activities
  • o Assists in the development, documentation and analysis of program
  • performance
  • o Serves as a clinical resource to Intake Specialists
  • o Collaborates with other department members to facilitate effective triage
  • of new neuroscience or neurology patients
  • o Eliminates unnecessary delays in clinician reviews, including supervising
  • the collection of patients’ diagnostic studies
  • o Returns Southern Illinois Healthcare Brain and Spine Institute phone
  • messages and other communication within 24 hours

Neurology

  • o Responsible for all triaging of neurology referrals sent to Brain and Spine
  • o Responsible for transitional care management of discharged neurology patients including: imaging, wellness checks, referrals, appointments and medication refills/order
  • o Responsible for any follow up indicated on Emmi report

Compensation (Commensurate with experience)

  • $67475.2
  • To
  • $104582.4

To access our Benefits Guide/Plan Information, please click the link below:

http://www.sih.net/careers/benefits

Apply at SIH