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Nemours is seeking a Sickle Cell Nurse Navigator to join our Nemours Children's Hospital team in Wilmington, DE

The Sickle Cell Nurse Navigator (SC NN) is the key clinical contact for complex patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), their families, and caregivers, in an effort to overcome health care system barriers. The nurse navigator is the primary contact for our patients, responsible for coordination of a high level of service and quality of care to Sickle Cell (SC) patients. This includes coordinating multidisciplinary care, coordination of care between visits, scans, prescription refills, complex scheduling, and sub-specialty interface. This role addresses educational needs, insurance authorizations, and peer to peer for complex patients. The SC NN ensures adherence to patients prescribed Hydroxyurea, patients due/over due for TCDs (transcranial doppler ultrasound), schedules and post patients in preparation for procedures, and identifies patients lost to follow-up. The SC NN partners closely with the Transplant and Cellular Therapy Team (TCT) to provide education regarding Transplant and Gene Therapy as well as performing HLA typing for donor matches. The SC NN is involved with all aspects of the patient's care through the health care continuum and is critical to this at-risk patient population.

Essential Functions

1. Improve patient's access to care by assuring efficient and effective coordination of patient care between visits including scans, complex scheduling, and sub-specialty interface.
2. Coordinating multidisciplinary combined clinics with Hematology and subspecialty providers as well as transition team visits, assisting with clinic flow and alerting providers to patient needs.
3. Scheduling and coordinating meetings for the SCD Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Clinical Research and Data Informatics Core (CRDIC) and assist in inputting sickle cell registry data.
4. Collaborate with the physicians, members of the healthcare team, and the patient/family to streamline patient care pathways, maintain a plan to deliver quality healthcare in the outpatient setting and in the home environment, and focusing on educational and resource needs.
5. Maintain and organize educational materials for patients and families as well as providing patient education and contributing to the quarterly sickle cell newsletter
6. Collaborate with the sickle cell team with special event planning and organization as well as support groups and family advisory council meetings
7. Assist with scheduling and coordinating SC team meetings as well as organizing and maintaining SC Teams sites
8. Coordination and delegation for prior authorizations and peer to peer for complex patients.
9. Assist with all aspects of navigating the patient through the health care process assuring that continuity of care is promoted in all patient care settings.
10. Collaborate with the NCCBD specialty nurses for care coordination and cross coverage as needed.

Requirements

BSN required

ONCC certification (CPON/CPHON) preferred

Minimum 3-5 yrs of pediatric hematology/oncology nursing experience required