Registered Nurse

The Childbirth Center Discharge Coordinator will participate in boost rounds with the pediatric, obstetric, lactation, care management and neonatology teams and facilitate discharge needs for all mother/infant dyads on the Childbirth unit.

This position is grant-funded position.

This position is 40 hours weekly;
Days. A minimum of 2 years RN experience is required

Job Duties:

• Ensure referrals are scheduled including early intervention, subspecialist appointments, developmental hip clinic, radiology, home nursing, maternal BP and wound checks, Neonatal Growth and Development, etc.
• Coordinate follow up appointments, when plausible, for mother and infant inclusive of family input. Ensure timely PCP follow up for infants within AAP recommend timeframe.
• Facilitate current Proven Care target of 11AM priority discharges from the Childbirth Center.
• Function as a liaison with CYS or POSC (Plan of Safe Care) coordinator in arranging meetings with families and providers.
• Send PCP a copy of the POSC, which may not be finalized at time of discharge.
• Provide discharge education for caregivers (DOH Shaken Baby video, Safe Sleep education, etc). Notify RN or provider if caregivers have questions about education.
• Arrange new discharge equipment, when needed (car seats, car beds, cribs, phototherapy blankets, breast pump)
• Screen for maternal risk of postpartum depression. Notify the provider if mother is at risk.
• Coordinate inventory of phototherapy blankets, notify GHIS of missing blankets and/or when blankets are issued to patients.
• Ensure WIC scripts have been completed.
• Ensure all paperwork has been completed for patients and caregivers such as work notes, homebound education, FMLA paperwork.
• Enroll newborns (and women if not already) in MyChart. This will facilitate the use of that platform to reinforce education.
• Work with providers to ensure new prescriptions for discharge are complete.
• Arrange (discharge) transportation, when necessary, as well as to follow up appointments.
• Ensure Discharge Summaries are completed and faxed to PCP, if non-Geisinger provider.
• Liaison with outpatient social work for families with ongoing needs that a “warm hand-off” has occurred.
• Arrange Ronald McDonald temporary housing for parent if infant needs to stay inpatient longer than mother.