Registered Nurse- Maternity Care Coordinator​/ PACT Care Manager Float

Registered Nurse
- Maternity Care Coordinator (MCC)

The Registered Nurse
- Maternity Care Coordinator (MCC) follows procedures per established policies and guidelines. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team. Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care. The Maternity Care Coordination is approximately 40% of the position with 60% PACT Outpatient Staff Nurse in Primary Care.

Major duties and responsibilities of the position:

• Execute position responsibilities that demonstrate expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches in providing complex patient management.
• Ensure the effective coordination of care between Veterans Affairs (VA) and maternity care providers in the community, and all relevant VA and community specialist providers treating the pregnant Veteran.
• Work with the local VA Medical Center (VAMC) Office of Integrated Veteran Care (IVC) to collaborate on referrals for care in the community.
• Ensure coordination of care among relevant VA providers and the Women Veterans Program Manager (WVPM) and Women's Health Medical Director.
• Facilitates coordination of maternity care for pregnant Veterans on inpatient psychiatric units and/or in residential care programs.
• Monitor the provision of services and tracking of maternal and fetal outcomes.
• Retrieve statistical data on maternity care and utilization at the local VAMC using Veterans Health Administration (VHA) databases.
• Ensure bimonthly telephone contact while the Veteran is in the care of the VA authorized provider in the community and documents the call(s) in the electronic health record (EHR).
• Inform the Veteran of VA's authority to furnish newborn care and the need for other non-VA payment options (e.g., Medicaid) to be in place to cover any newborn care required beyond VA's authorization.
• Educate the Veteran on local and community resources (e.g., Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program).
• Ensure the Veteran schedules postpartum care with the VA-authorized provider in the community.
• Provide the Veteran with information about the VAMC's process to obtain maternity care and health supplies (e.g., breast pumps, maternity belts, disposable nursing pads, breast milk storage bags, lanolin cream, intra-uterine devices).
• Ensure that Veterans with positive screening results for depression, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)/Domestic Violence (DV), Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during their pregnancies or postpartum are referred to the appropriate specialists.
• Evaluate care and outcomes to ensure timely and appropriate provision of services.
• Advocate for holistic care through Veteran/family education and provider interaction and implements an educational plan to meet the Veteran care needs.
• Collaborate in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.
• Demonstrate performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
• Provide peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Support colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Foster a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals.
• Evaluate outcomes of evidence based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations.
• Responsible for the documenting broad and complex outcomes at the program or service level, that can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay:
Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement:
Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance:
Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule:

Monday
- Friday, 8:00am- 4:30pm

Telework:
Not Available.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized.