LABOR & DELIVERY - MATERNAL QUALITY COORDINATOR/RN

Mountain View Hospital is looking for a Maternal Quality Coordinator/Registered Nurse to join our team!

JOB SUMMARY: Labor & Delivery RN: provides direct patient care in the Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum setting. Provides assessment and planning for individualized patient care.  Communicates with providers about changes in patient’s clinical condition, including results of diagnostic studies.  Responds quickly and accurately to changes in condition or response to treatment.  Performs general nursing duties in the Perinatal Department.

Maternal Quality Coordinator: abstracts clinical data & reviews charts with an emphasis on maternal patients including but NOT limited to: antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum care contributing to dashboards/tables/graphs to help illustrate performance and potential Quality Improvement gaps. Assists the Quality Reporting team in successfully supporting patient quality and organizational outcomes geared towards Maternal Morbidity, meet deadlines and submission requirements for CMS reporting.

BENEFITS:

Taking care for our community starts with taking care of our own team. Mountain View Hospital is proud to offer its employees competitive and comprehensive benefit packages. Benefits include:

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off (vacation, holidays and sick days) and Medical Paid Time Off
Retirement Plans (401K with up to 6% match)
Earned Quarterly Bonus Program
Education Reimbursement Program
Discount for medically necessary procedures performed at Idaho Falls Community Hospital and Mountain View Hospital
Please note benefits are based on eligibility according to full-time, part-time or PRN status classification.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Labor and Delivery RN 

• Knowledge of medications and their correct administration based on age of the patient and their clinical condition.

• Ability to care for antenatal patients and monitor for complications and change in status.
• Ability to assess and care for low and moderate-risk patients in labor or high risk under close supervision of a charge nurse, during delivery, and postpartum setting and address any change in condition. Is capable of managing care of 1-2 labor patients.
• Able to provide family centered care for a postpartum mother and baby on the mother/baby unit.
• Ability to assess neonate at delivery and perform neonatal resuscitation according to current guidelines once NRP is complete.
• Ability to perform, on admission, a head-to-toe assessment on infants and adults and reassessments as per policy.
• Ability to implement a teaching plan based on identified learning needs of the patient and evaluates effectiveness of teaching (family is included as appropriate).
• Ability to formulate an individualized plan of care, revise plan as indicted by the patients’ response to treatment and evaluate overall plan daily for effectiveness.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development and the skill necessary to provide age appropriate care to the patients served.
• Demonstrates knowledge of fetal monitoring according to AWHONN.  Identifies FHR patterns and intervenes appropriately and promptly.
• Communicates appropriately and clearly to charge nurse, co-workers and providers.
• Consults other departments as appropriate to provide for the interdisciplinary approach to the patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates and ability to assist providers with procedures in the perinatal unit.
• Demonstrates an ability to be flexible, organized and function under stressful and emergent situations.
• Maintains established depar