About the role
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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
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http://www.sih.net/careers/benefits