Clinical CARE Coordinator; Voigtlander Womens Hospital; VVWH

Mission Statement

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

The staff of Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital are committed to the care of antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum people and their newborns, in an environment that supports and empowers families. Low and High Risk care is provided in a complex‑care perinatal setting. Common diagnoses include normal labor and birth, surgical birth, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, cardiac disorders, preterm labor, multiple gestation, bleeding disorders, and congenital anomalies of the fetus.

• Provide expert complex care coordination for patients in the labor and delivery unit with a focus on the high risk and antepartum population through individualized assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of nursing care in all clinical settings where these patients may be hospitalized.
• Facilitate communication and coordination of patient care plans/needs within VVWH and across multiple settings and disciplines in all phases of perinatal care.
• Design, document, monitor and evaluate individualized patient care plans for the perinatal population.
• Provide clinical expert liaison and consultation across multiple inpatient and outpatient clinical settings, disciplines, and Services; plan and facilitate multidisciplinary clinical care conferences.
• In collaboration with the VVWH Unit‑Based Committees (UBC), Task Forces, and institutional committees (as needed), design and maintain patient education resources and programs for the perinatal population; collaborate with identified groups and educators to implement patient education protocols and processes within VVWH.
• Proactively identify and collaborate in the development of clinical practice guideline /policy development and staff education needs related to new/evolving patient population conditions, treatments, and procedures.
• In collaboration with the Education Nurse Coordinators, design/participate and provide in‑services, continuing education programs, orientation programs, and clinical simulation drills for nursing and tech staff.
• Coordinate/facilitate research related to the perinatal population.
• Assist nursing leadership team to develop and implement quality and safety prevention and mitigation initiatives.
• In collaboration with other clinical leadership, monitor clinical outcomes.
• Represent VVWH on unit, Division, Nursing, and system‑wide committees as requested/directed.
• Collaborate with outpatient and inpatient CCCs.

• Bachelors degree in nursing OR
• Associates degree or diploma in Nursing and a masters degree or higher in Nursing
• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan
• Five (5) or more years of current experience as an RN in a high‑risk inpatient L&D/LDR/LDRP setting
• Demonstrated expert knowledge of complex, high‑risk perinatal and perioperative nursing with the ability to anticipate and plan for clinical needs
• Successful completion of the AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced Fetal Monitoring course within the last 3 years.
• Certification in Electronic Fetal Monitoring (or within 1 year)
• Current Certification in Inpatient Obstetric Nursing and Inpatient Antepartum Nursing through NCC with one year of start training or classroom experience.
• Experience in a leadership role such as charge nurse, or team lead

• Design and implement education for staff and or patients
• Demonstrated consistently outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, including strong facilitative interpersonal skills with the ability to provide direct and effective feedback, and ability to resolve conflict independently.
• Demonstrated independent ability to identify, evaluate, and collaborate with others to effectively problem‑solve.
• Demonstrated…