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Nurse Navigator roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA treaty's Registered Nurse category, giving Canadian citizens a cap-free path to U.S. employment and Mexican citizens access within the annual TN allocation. Employers in hospital systems, oncology centers, and managed care organizations regularly sponsor TN status for this role.
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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 TN Visa Sponsorship as a Nurse Navigator
Verify your RN license transfers cleanly
Each U.S. state issues its own RN license, and TN classification depends on active U.S. registration. Confirm your provincial or Mexican nursing credential qualifies for endorsement in your target state before approaching employers about sponsorship.
Target health systems with recent visa filings
Large hospital networks and integrated health systems frequently sponsor work visas and have HR teams experienced with visa processes. Mid-size oncology groups and cancer centers are worth prioritizing since Nurse Navigator demand is concentrated there.
Clarify the case management scope upfront
Some Nurse Navigator postings blend care coordination with administrative duties that fall outside the Registered Nurse TN category. Ask the recruiter to confirm the role is clinically classified as RN before the offer letter is drafted to avoid a filing mismatch.
Use Migrate Mate to find employers who sponsor TN visas
Search Migrate Mate to filter Nurse Navigator openings by TN visa sponsorship availability. This saves you from applying to roles where the employer has no TN experience and cuts the time spent on back-and-forth about immigration eligibility.
Prepare your credentials package before the offer stage
You'll need your nursing degree, transcripts, current RN license, and NCLEX documentation ready for the TN petition. Canadian citizens can present this directly at the port of entry, so having originals organized speeds up the border crossing significantly.
Understand how Mexican TN processing differs from Canadian
Mexican citizens cannot use the port-of-entry route and must apply at a U.S. consulate for a TN visa stamp. Build in consular appointment wait times when evaluating a start date with your employer so the timeline is realistic from day one.
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Find Nurse Navigator JobsNurse Navigator TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does the Nurse Navigator role qualify for TN visa status?
Yes, Nurse Navigator roles qualify under the Registered Nurse category of the USMCA TN professional list, provided the position requires an active RN license and the duties are primarily clinical in nature. Roles where nursing functions are incidental to case management or administrative work may face scrutiny, so confirming the job classification with your employer before filing is essential.
How does TN visa sponsorship compare to H-1B for Nurse Navigator positions?
TN sponsorship is faster and more predictable for Nurse Navigators than H-1B. There is no annual lottery, no cap for Canadian citizens, and no multi-month wait for a petition approval window. Employers also face lower filing costs. The main limitation is that TN status does not confer dual intent, so it is not a direct path to a green card the way H-1B can be.
Where can I find Nurse Navigator jobs with TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter Nurse Navigator openings by TN visa sponsorship status so you only see employers who have confirmed willingness to sponsor. This is more efficient than filtering general job boards where TN eligibility is rarely disclosed upfront in postings.
What documents do I need for a Nurse Navigator TN petition?
You'll need your nursing degree and transcripts, proof of your current active RN license in the hiring state, your NCLEX results, and a detailed employer support letter specifying the TN category and job duties. Canadian citizens present these at a U.S. port of entry. Mexican citizens submit them as part of a consular visa application through a U.S. embassy or consulate.
Can my employer sponsor TN status if they have never done it before?
Yes, TN sponsorship does not require prior USCIS registration or any special employer certification, unlike H-1B. The employer writes a support letter and you present the petition either at the border or at a consulate. Many smaller health systems and oncology practices successfully sponsor their first TN petition without an immigration attorney, though complex cases benefit from legal review.
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