Overview
The Mays Cancer Center Nurse Navigator assesses and manages barriers to care to improve the timeliness, quality, and clinical outcomes of care, and the patient experience. Promotes continuity, multi-disciplinary cancer care and thereby creates a cost-effective value-based environment through integrating functions of case management, utilization review, clinical competence, and discharge planning. Responsible for providing individualized assistance to patients, families, and caregivers, as well as internal and external staff and providers.
Responsibilities
- Assess and manage barriers to care to improve timeliness and quality of care and patient outcomes.
- Promote continuity of multi-disciplinary cancer care and support value-based care by integrating case management, utilization review, clinical competence, and discharge planning.
- Provide individualized assistance to patients, families, caregivers, and to internal and external staff and providers.