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Nurse Navigator - Elmwood Primary Care

Traverse, MIOnsiteFull TimePosted 24 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Registered Nurse
  • Michigan
  • care management
  • care coordination
  • adult patients
  • pediatric patients
  • complex conditions
  • social needs
  • education needs
  • primary care providers

Role summary

Munson Healthcare is seeking a Nurse Navigator for their Elmwood Primary Care team in Traverse City, MI. This full-time role involves acting as a liaison between patients, staff, and physicians to provide care management and coordination for adult and pediatric patients with complex conditions, social needs, and education needs. The Nurse Navigator will collaborate with healthcare teams to ensure quality, efficient, and cost-effective care, optimizing patient health status and reducing hospital/ER utilization by integrating evidence-based guidelines into patient-centric care plans. A Registered Nurse license in Michigan is required, with a Bachelor of Science in nursing and 5 years of RN experience preferred.

A Day in the Life 

The navigator functions in an organized and time conscious manner using effective customer service and interpersonal skills at all times.

  • The Nurse Navigator will act as a liaison between patients, professional staff and physicians by providing care management and care coordination for adult and pediatric patients, with complex conditions, with complex social needs, and education needs.
  • Serves in an expanded health care role to collaborate with primary care providers, specialists, members of the health care team, and patients/families to ensure the delivery of quality, efficient, and cost-effective health care services.
  • Assesses plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates all options and services with the goal of optimizing the patient’s health status and decreasing hospital and emergency room utilization.
  • Integrates evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols, in the development of individualized care plans that are patient-centric, promoting quality and efficiency in the delivery of health care

What’s Required

  • Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.
  • Bachelor of Science degree in nursing preferred.
  • Minimum 5 years experience as an RN is highly preferred.

Are you Munson Material? Apply today! 

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.

Location: 921 W. Front Street, Traverse City, MI

Schedule: Full Time: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

More Than Just Care, It’s Community

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

  • Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance. 

  • Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.

  • Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges. 

  • Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

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