Registered Nurse (Case Manager - Cancer Care Navigator)

<p>The Cancer Care Navigator Registered Nurse will execute position responsibilities that demonstrate expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches in providing complex patient management as well as provide patient management, care coordination, and disposition planning for cancer patients.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>Major Duties: Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: Provide patient management, care coodination, and disposition planning for cancer patients. Assist Veterans, family members, and caregivers with receiving the most appropriate options and services to meet their complex health care needs. Coordinate care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care. Assure services interface within the Veterans Affairs and community programs to provide continuity of care to patients. Provide oversight of the patient's journey through the diagnostic and treatment continuum, ensure that all steps in the process are scheduled, timely and completed, while tracking the overall treatment plan. Follow select patients from the earliest suspicion of cancer through the continuum of cancer care including diagnosis, treatment, surviorship/surveillance, or palliation/end of life. Interface with outside referral agencies, and ensure that their business and clinical practices are in compliance with regulatory standards. Anticipate and implement preventive patient care measures. Possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to their age-specific needs, providing care as considered necessary. Provide guidance and education to patients and caregivers and collaborate with other professionals at all levels. Address psychosocial, as well as nursing and medical needs of patients and their families/caregivers, through participation with the interdisciplinary care team. Ensure the plan of care and educational requirements are individualized and tailored specfically to support each individual patient's needs. Report status of service needs and contribute to problem resolution and modification of processes as necessary. Evaluate care and outcomes to ensure timely and appropriate provision of services. Advocate for holistic care through patient/family education and provider interaction and implements an educational plan to meet the patient care needs. Collaborate in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines. Demonstrate performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. Provide peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement. Support colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care. Foster a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals. Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations. Responsible for the documenting broad and complex outcomes at the program or service level, that can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM Compressed: Authorized (10-Hour Shifts) Telework: Ad-Hoc (NOTE: The Veterans Health Administration, including VISN 19 and VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, will comply fully with the intention and instructions contained in the "Return to Office" Executive Order. This position will likely be eligible to telework on a limited Ad-Hoc basis only) Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized https://youtu.be/EGW4PMZvJto?si=_f7pNchVqoK1KZal</p><h3>Requirements</h3>U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical examination. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). You may be required to serve a probationary period. Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.