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Nurse Navigator roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in nursing. Australian RNs bring care coordination experience that U.S. health systems actively recruit for, and the E-3's no-lottery structure means your application competes on merit, not chance, with renewals available every two years.
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Get Access To All JobsWork Arrangement: Regular
Requisition Number: 269120
Location: Raleigh, NC, US, 27710
Personnel Area: DUKE RALEIGH CAMPUS
Date: Apr 27, 2026
At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.
About Duke Raleigh Hospital, A Campus of Duke University Hospital
Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of the four Duke Health hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.
Nurse Navigator (Oncology Experienced RN)
Cary Cancer Center
Job Summary:
The Nurse Navigator (NN) is a professional RN with service line specific clinical knowledge who offers individualized assistance across the care continuum to patients, families, and caregivers to expedite and coordinate care, and address health system barriers. The NN assumes responsibility for the coordination of patient care through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve optimal patient outcomes with a focus on high-risk patients or those with complex care needs (including multidisciplinary care). The NN has a particular focus on improving transitions in care and adherence to care. Additionally, the NN functions as a clinical advocate and educator for patients. The NN assists to build and maintain community relationships to provide expedient and reliable access to quality care. The NN identifies and alleviates stressors during transitions and barriers to care with the aim to deliver a seamless model of care that benefits patients, family members, providers, and the healthcare team.
Work Performed
- Assess and facilitate coordination of multidisciplinary care across the care continuum.
- Provide communication, advocacy, and education in a culturally competent manner.
- Ability to clinically triage new patient referrals efficiently, to ensure timely access to care.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary care team and expedite sequence of patient's workup, active treatment, survivorship, and end of life care.
- Provide communication and reinforcement of clinical information and serve as a conduit between patient and providers/clinicians to address needs of patients.
- Targeted symptom assessment and management for identified patient population.
- Assess health literacy and educational needs of patient.
- Provide clinical education about diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and post-treatment care.
- Assess and document patient's needs, goals, and preferences and work to ensure such are integrated into treatment and care delivery.
- Bridge gaps in care, and assess/troubleshoot care transitions and barriers to care.
- Facilitate advanced care planning and transition of active treatment to palliative or end-of-life care.
- Document all patient encounters in EPIC.
- Enhance access to therapeutic clinical trials and optimize communication with patients, families and investigators regarding therapeutic clinical trials, including patient-specific education about clinical trials.
- Encourage and empower patients to actively participate in decision-making about their treatment and care. Possess leadership skills including staff education, preceptorship, patient education, and participate in process improvement initiatives.
- Practice according to professional and legal standards.
- Maintain navigation services documentation according to program standards.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent written, oral, and conversational communication skills to effectively work with diverse groups.
- Ability to analyze, evaluate multiple solutions and solve complex problems using well developed critical & analytical thinking skills.
- Excellent time management skills needed to prioritize among many competing priorities. Attention to detail needed to operate accurately and effectively.
- Mastery of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel, and use of health record for documentation and/or reporting.
- Ability to promote programs and services to community. Extensive understanding of patient care. Proficient in review of medical records and other patient care information.
- Demonstrated skills in verbal and written communication.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
- Ability to promote and build teamwork and multidisciplinary care concept.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
- BSN required.
- Specialty certification and/or MSN preferred.
Experience
- Three years of experience in Oncology.
- Experience in nurse navigation preferred.
- Completion of national nurse navigation training preferred.
- Metric tracking skills.
Degrees, Licensures, Certifications
- Must have current or compact RN licensure in the state of North Carolina. BLS required.
Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions:
Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
Work Arrangement: Regular
Requisition Number: 269120
Location: Raleigh, NC, US, 27710
Personnel Area: DUKE RALEIGH CAMPUS
Date: Apr 27, 2026
At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.
About Duke Raleigh Hospital, A Campus of Duke University Hospital
Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of the four Duke Health hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.
Nurse Navigator (Oncology Experienced RN)
Cary Cancer Center
Job Summary:
The Nurse Navigator (NN) is a professional RN with service line specific clinical knowledge who offers individualized assistance across the care continuum to patients, families, and caregivers to expedite and coordinate care, and address health system barriers. The NN assumes responsibility for the coordination of patient care through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve optimal patient outcomes with a focus on high-risk patients or those with complex care needs (including multidisciplinary care). The NN has a particular focus on improving transitions in care and adherence to care. Additionally, the NN functions as a clinical advocate and educator for patients. The NN assists to build and maintain community relationships to provide expedient and reliable access to quality care. The NN identifies and alleviates stressors during transitions and barriers to care with the aim to deliver a seamless model of care that benefits patients, family members, providers, and the healthcare team.
Work Performed
- Assess and facilitate coordination of multidisciplinary care across the care continuum.
- Provide communication, advocacy, and education in a culturally competent manner.
- Ability to clinically triage new patient referrals efficiently, to ensure timely access to care.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary care team and expedite sequence of patient's workup, active treatment, survivorship, and end of life care.
- Provide communication and reinforcement of clinical information and serve as a conduit between patient and providers/clinicians to address needs of patients.
- Targeted symptom assessment and management for identified patient population.
- Assess health literacy and educational needs of patient.
- Provide clinical education about diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and post-treatment care.
- Assess and document patient's needs, goals, and preferences and work to ensure such are integrated into treatment and care delivery.
- Bridge gaps in care, and assess/troubleshoot care transitions and barriers to care.
- Facilitate advanced care planning and transition of active treatment to palliative or end-of-life care.
- Document all patient encounters in EPIC.
- Enhance access to therapeutic clinical trials and optimize communication with patients, families and investigators regarding therapeutic clinical trials, including patient-specific education about clinical trials.
- Encourage and empower patients to actively participate in decision-making about their treatment and care. Possess leadership skills including staff education, preceptorship, patient education, and participate in process improvement initiatives.
- Practice according to professional and legal standards.
- Maintain navigation services documentation according to program standards.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent written, oral, and conversational communication skills to effectively work with diverse groups.
- Ability to analyze, evaluate multiple solutions and solve complex problems using well developed critical & analytical thinking skills.
- Excellent time management skills needed to prioritize among many competing priorities. Attention to detail needed to operate accurately and effectively.
- Mastery of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel, and use of health record for documentation and/or reporting.
- Ability to promote programs and services to community. Extensive understanding of patient care. Proficient in review of medical records and other patient care information.
- Demonstrated skills in verbal and written communication.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
- Ability to promote and build teamwork and multidisciplinary care concept.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
- BSN required.
- Specialty certification and/or MSN preferred.
Experience
- Three years of experience in Oncology.
- Experience in nurse navigation preferred.
- Completion of national nurse navigation training preferred.
- Metric tracking skills.
Degrees, Licensures, Certifications
- Must have current or compact RN licensure in the state of North Carolina. BLS required.
Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions:
Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Nurse Navigator
Verify your NCLEX registration before applying
U.S. employers require a valid state nursing license or proof of NCLEX passage before extending an offer. Get your credentials evaluated through a DOL-recognized credential assessment body so your Australian nursing qualifications translate cleanly for sponsoring employers.
Target health systems with existing E-3 history
Large hospital networks and integrated care organizations file Labor Condition Applications with the DOL regularly. Search the DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data to identify which employers have certified E-3 LCAs for nursing roles in recent fiscal years.
Frame care coordination experience for U.S. job descriptions
Nurse Navigator postings often specify oncology, cardiology, or chronic disease pathways. Rewrite your CV to mirror the exact care coordination language in each posting, including referral management and interdisciplinary team facilitation, so your Australian experience maps directly to the specialty occupation requirement.
Confirm the LCA covers your specific work location
If your role involves multiple hospital campuses or telehealth work across state lines, the LCA must reflect every physical worksite. Ask your employer's HR team to confirm each location is listed before you proceed to your consulate appointment, or the visa officer can identify a mismatch.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the full process
From LCA certification with the DOL through DS-160 preparation and consulate appointment readiness, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to manage every document. This is especially useful for Nurse Navigators who receive conditional offers pending credentialing, as timelines need careful coordination.
Negotiate your start date around LCA certification windows
DOL certifies most LCAs within seven business days, but errors in the prevailing wage determination can trigger delays. Build at least three weeks into your offer negotiation between the signed offer letter and your intended start date so credentialing and LCA certification can complete without rushing your consulate booking.
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Find Nurse Navigator JobsNurse Navigator E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Nurse Navigator jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search Nurse Navigator roles filtered specifically for E-3 visa sponsorship, so you're only seeing employers who are set up to support Australian applicants. The platform surfaces positions at health systems with active LCA filing history, which cuts out the manual research of checking DOL disclosure data yourself.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Nurse Navigator role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. A Nurse Navigator position qualifies as a specialty occupation when the employer requires at least a bachelor's degree in nursing or a closely related field. Roles that accept any bachelor's degree without a field requirement can face scrutiny, so confirm the job description specifies a nursing or healthcare degree before proceeding with an E-3 application.
How does the E-3 visa compare to the H-1B for Nurse Navigator roles?
The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, so you can apply at any point in the year once you have a job offer and a certified LCA. The H-1B runs through a randomized lottery with registration in March and a cap of 85,000 slots. For Australian RNs, the E-3 is the direct path without the selection risk that makes H-1B planning unreliable for most applicants.
Can I change employers or move to a different health system on an E-3?
Yes, but each employer change requires a new LCA and a new visa application or amended status. There's no portability provision like AC21 for the E-3. If you're changing from one hospital network to another, your new employer needs to certify a fresh LCA before you begin work, and your current E-3 status does not automatically transfer.
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