Job Description:

The Maternal Health Connection RN supports patients in remote or rural areas, enabling them to receive obstetrical care within their communities. This individual, local to the community, facilitates visits between patients and obstetrical care providers. The RN also delivers evidence-based health education programs in community settings, both virtually and in-person. Responsibilities include fetal monitoring, conducting biophysical profiles, lactation counseling, facilitating visits with and without providers (including home visits), providing health education sessions, customizing educational activities, implementing care plans from providers, attending community events, and coordinating resources based on patients’ individualized needs.

Posting Specifics

• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• Shift Details: Full time (40 budgeted hours). Schedule is TBD.
• Unit/Location: This RN will be working at an offsite clinic located in Morgan County. Occasionally may be needed at Wasatch OBGYN at McKay-Dee Hospital.
• Additional Information: Must live in Morgan County

Essential Functions

• Manages all referrals for the Maternal health Connection program at the designated program location.
• Utilizes nursing process for each patient according to the maternal health connection program standards, consulting with physicians to develop treatment and educational plans. Includes in-person, virtual, and home visits.
• Provides guidance and health education to patients, following the care process and plan of care, while assessing individual patient needs.
• Coordinates and facilitates patient visits (in-person, virtual, home visits), conducts health assessments and screenings, offers education, plans postpartum care, develops birthing plans, and coordinates resource services and supports.
• Monitors and follows up on patient progress relative to their pregnancy and postpartum care plans.
• Prevents duplication, fragmentation, or unnecessary use of resources by evaluating the necessity of in-person, hybrid virtual, or fully virtual visits.
• Collects and tracks patient data, including demographics, prenatal visits, family planning, emergency visits, remote patient monitoring, and other relevant information using the Maternal Health Connection RN note templates.

Skills

• Patient Education
• Patient Care Coordination
• Obstetric Nursing Fundamentals
• Lactation Counseling
• Patient Care
• Resource Coordination
• Referral Management
• Needs Assessment
• Clinical Documentation
• Clinical Evaluation

Minimum Qualifications

• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) (Degree will be verified)
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers
• Must reside in or near the community of the program location
• Current Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) Certification or ability to obtain within three (3) months of hire
• Current Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM) certification from the National Certification Corporation (NCC) (A-1 or other verified source).  
• Two (2) years of RN experience working in labor & delivery, obstetrics, or neonatology
• Reliable transportation for travel to remote clinic sites and patient homes
• Demonstrated ability fostering collaborative relationships
• Demonstrated experience in role requiring collaboration and a strong customer service orientation
• Demonstrated ability managing multiple priorities
• Demonstrated experience in a role requiring effective verbal, written, interpersonal, and consensus-building communication skills
• Demonstrated ability teaching, presenting, and facilitating learning activities
• Demonstrated ability collaborating with public health and community-based organizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Care Management or Case Management experience
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating care across multiple clinics and healthcare providers

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital

Work City:

Ogden

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$35.22 - $53.29

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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