Manager, Patient Care Services Labor and Delivery Tullahoma Harton Hospital

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:  Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

Labor and Delivery

Job Summary:

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

The Manager, Patient Care Services is a leadership role that has comprehensive operational authority and responsibility for designated clinical area(s). Their responsibilities include: fiscal accountability, maintaining quality and regulatory standards, maintaining a high level of patient/family centered care and service, patient and staff satisfaction, program development, managing and developing teams, and ensuring integration with the clinical enterprise. Provides feedback, coaching and mentoring to less experienced peers and other members of the health care team.

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Hours of Position:

40 hours/week, day shift

Looking for a candidate who has at least 5 years of Nursing experience with at least 3 of those years in Labor & Delivery and/or NICU. Prefer a Master's prepared candidate or one who is currently enrolled in a MSN program.

The Women’s Services unit includes labor and delivery, postpartum, newborn nursery, and a Level II NICU.  We are located on the second floor of Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital.  We are a 16 bed unit.  The Nurse to patient ratio is 1:1 on L&D, 1:2 for stable NICU patients and 1:5 for postpartum care/newborns.  Some of the services provided include:

▪  labor and delivery 
•  outpatient triage 
•  fetal monitoring             
•  specific L&D operating room
    for c-sections 
•  antepartum care 
•  postpartum care
•  couplet care 
•  level II NICU
•  lactation support
•  gynecological diagnoses and
   other short-stay surgeries

The environment on our unit is fast-paced and dynamic.  As a team, we provide high-quality and compassionate care.

We care for adult obstetrical patients and newborns as they transition to extrauterine life.  Occasionally, we care for patients undergoing gynecological procedures. 

Our patients are unique because we get to support them through life-changing events.  Our nurses provide respectful maternity care that honors each birth experience while ensuring a healthy delivery.  We also get to be involved as mother and baby transition into the postpartum period.  Our expert newborn nursing care impacts the entire lifespan of each neonate.  

One of the perks of working on our unit is that we have a strong team that works well together. Our nurses are successful because they are knowledgeable, have critical thinking skills, and aim to provide exceptional care in a rapidly changing environment. 

We orient new nurses to our unit by allowing a lengthy 12-16 week orientation where they learn all specialties within the unit.  

WE ENCOURAGE PROFESSIONAL GROWTH.

If your career goal is to specialize in the care of obstetrical or newborn patients, the VTHH Women’s Center can help with this by providing clinical experiences in both women’s health and neonatology.

Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is