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RN - Registered Nurse Coordinator - Childbirth Center

Job Summary

We’re working to create a national model for improving health. Today, we’re focused on bringing our region services that improve every facet of life to drive total health, inside and out. Through professional growth, quality improvement, and interdisciplinary collaboration, we’ve built an innovative culture that allows nurses to grow their skillsets, develop their practice, and leverage their years of experience to build a rewarding, lasting career with impact.

Job Duties

The Childbirth Center Discharge Coordinator will participate in boost rounds with the pediatric, obstetric, lactation, care management and neonatology teams and facilitate discharge needs for all mother/infant dyads on the Childbirth unit.

This position is grant-funded position.

This position is 40 hours weekly; Days. A minimum of 2 years RN experience is required

Job Duties:

• Ensure referrals are scheduled including early intervention, subspecialist appointments, developmental hip clinic, radiology, home nursing, maternal BP and wound checks, Neonatal Growth and Development, etc.
• Coordinate follow up appointments, when plausible, for mother and infant inclusive of family input. Ensure timely PCP follow up for infants within AAP recommend timeframe.
• Facilitate current Proven Care target of 11AM priority discharges from the Childbirth Center.
• Function as a liaison with CYS or POSC (Plan of Safe Care) coordinator in arranging meetings with families and providers.
• Send PCP a copy of the POSC, which may not be finalized at time of discharge.
• Provide discharge education for caregivers (DOH Shaken Baby video, Safe Sleep education, etc). Notify RN or provider if caregivers have questions about education.
• Arrange new discharge equipment, when needed (car seats, car beds, cribs, phototherapy blankets, breast pump)
• Screen for maternal risk of postpartum depression. Notify the provider if mother is at risk.
• Coordinate inventory of phototherapy blankets, notify GHIS of missing blankets and/or when blankets are issued to patients.
• Ensure WIC scripts have been completed.
• Ensure all paperwork has been completed for patients and caregivers such as work notes, homebound education, FMLA paperwork.
• Enroll newborns (and women if not already) in MyChart. This will facilitate the use of that platform to reinforce education.
• Work with providers to ensure new prescriptions for discharge are complete.
• Arrange (discharge)transportation, when necessary, as well as to follow up appointments.
• Ensure Discharge Summaries are completed and faxed to PCP, if non-Geisinger provider.
• Liaison with outpatient social work for families with ongoing needs that a “warm hand-off” has occurred.
• Arrange Ronald McDonald temporary housing for parent if infant needs to stay inpatient longer than mother.

Position Details

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Responsibilities