Interventional Radiology Nurse Navigator

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Hello, I am wondering if there are any IR Nurse Navigators that can share what their role entails? I am newly hired to an IR department as nurse navigator in hospital as a new role for the department as well as myself and the position expectations are a little unclear to me.  I am hoping to get perspective from someone who may have experience in this role. 

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Specializes in Breast Health Nurse Navigator.

Hi!  Are you using EPIC by any chance?  I'd love to chat if you are.  I'm a Nurse Navigator in the Breast Center (mammo and u/s) and have to use the Radiant (radiology) module and it just isn't  made for nurse charting (no place for notes, can't send referrals, etc).

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Hi, Yes I am also using Radiant.  I agree and it has been a struggle.  I've picked up a few things along the way.  I'd be happy to try to help.  

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Specializes in Breast Health Nurse Navigator.

Great!  I am specifically wondering how you add nursing notes and/or do internal/external referrals?  Those are the things I'm struggling to figure out.  I don't know if all Radiant modules are like this, but ours is not considered a "live" department which is why I can't do referrals.  And not being able to add notes is frustrating!

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For notes, I create a nursing note.  There is a black banner at the very top of my screen "Write Note" with an icon that looks like a steno pad.  Do you have that?  I click on that, enter patient's mrn, select my department, accept.  Then in the bigger tabs under the patient's chart, I open the tab "Notes."  Then under Notes, click on New Note.  That brings up a side window where I have a drop down menu with preloaded selections and I choose "nursing note."

 

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Specializes in Breast Health Nurse Navigator.

Nope, we don't have that within Radiant.   I am used to charting that way when using other modules in Epic.  This is within the Radiant context?  There should be a way for me to get it configured that way. I have no way to make a new note at all.  Grrr.

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Specializes in Breast Health Nurse Navigator.

Also, do you ever send out external/internal referrals (like for surgery or oncology, etc) through Epic?  Is your Radiant considered a "live" department?

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