RN - Palliative Care Navigator

RN - Palliative Care Nurse Navigator - FT, Earn up to $25,000 Sign-On Bonus!

Earn up to $25,000 in sign-on bonuses while helping patients and families navigate some of the most meaningful moments in healthcare. If you''re an RN who values patient advocacy, care coordination, education, and relationship-building, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact across both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

At Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital, you''ll join an interdisciplinary Palliative Care team dedicated to improving quality of life for patients facing serious illness. Working closely with physicians, advanced practice providers, social workers, patients, and families, you''ll serve as a guide, educator, and advocate throughout the patient journey.

Position Details:

• Full-time, Monday - Friday schedule
• Hours: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
• No routine weekends or holidays
• Hybrid inpatient and outpatient role

Why Nurses Choose this Role:

• Up to $25,000 sign-on bonus
• Consistent weekday schedule with excellent work-life balance
• Meaningful patient relationships and family support
• Opportunity to work across both hospital and clinic environments
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance starting the 1st of the month
• Generous PTO - Start accruing immediately
• 403(b) Retirement Plan - With company match
• Tuition Reimbursement - Up to $7,500 annually
• Relocation Assistance - Up to $12,000, if applicable

This role is a great fit for:

• RNs who enjoy patient advocacy and care coordination
• Nurses who value education, coaching, and relationship-building
• Clinicians interested in serious illness, symptom management, and quality-of-life care
• RNs looking for a highly collaborative role with providers and multidisciplinary teams
• Experienced nurses seeking an opportunity beyond traditional bedside or clinic nursing

About the Role:

As a Palliative Care Nurse Navigator, you''ll help support patients and families throughout their healthcare journey. Responsibilities include coordinating care between inpatient and outpatient settings, participating in hospital rounds, conducting patient follow-up, facilitating transitions to hospice services when appropriate, providing education to patients and families, and serving as a resource for providers and clinical staff.

This role combines the relationship-centered aspects of traditional nurse navigation with the unique opportunity to support patients across multiple care settings, ensuring continuity, communication, and compassionate care throughout the treatment process.

At Guthrie, you''re not just coordinating care-you''re helping patients and families navigate complex healthcare decisions with compassion, support, and dignity when they need it most.

Position Summary:

• Serves as a patient navigator throughout the continuum of care.

Education, License & Cert:

• Diploma from an accredited school/college of nursing
• Required RN licensure at time of hire.

Essential Functions:

• Functions as a liaison for management staff, administration, physicians, managed care companies, community organizations, and other customers.|
• Coordinates efforts for treatment and promotes quality improvement and educational efforts.
• Compiles data, tracks outcomes, and makes recommendations for process improvement.
• Provides referrals/support for follow-up care for patients who are uninsured or underinsured.

Other Duties:

Other duties as assigned

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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you'll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.

The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.