Perinatal Manager in Thomaston, Georgia at Upson Regional Medical Center

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Upson Regional Medical Center is a small hospital with a BIG heart! Our employees enjoy an environment where they can take care of patients with a high degree of quality and compassion. Patients get to experience top-notch healthcare with modern technology and a team with a focus of excellence for every patient, every time.

Direct supervisor of others and team leader

• Functions as a role model by periodically demonstrating the ability to provide direct patient care with consideration of age and population specific needs.
• Assists the Director with assuring high quality patient care. Monitors staff performance and provides instruction

• Oversees patient care delivery in a secure and therapeutic environment
• Coordinates admissions, transfers, discharges, and collaboration with inpatient and outpatient services
• Coordinates schedules of staff members to ensure adequate coverage and provides maximum utilization of manpower based on patient acuity and staffing guidelines while accounting for staff skill mix.
• Monitors staff customer service performance and notifies the director of positives as well as concerns.
• Communicates policies and procedures and monitors performance of staff

• Assessing individual patient needs from admission to discharge.
• Involve the patient / family in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
• Demonstrate knowledge of principles of growth and development throughout the lifespan.
• Provides appropriate age care.
• Recognize and report changes in patient status.
• Assess the patient for signs of labor.
• Triage patient based on EMTALA guidelines.
• Assess the patient for risk of hemorrhage, VTE, hypertensive crisis and other life-threatening illnesses.
• Assessment of fetus intrauterine activity.
• Assessment of the bonding between the newborn and their mother.

• Assess feeding choices and educate based on feeding choices.

• Assessment of the bonding of the newborn and their mother.

• Maintain couple care — keeping mother and baby together.
• Consistent documentation of fetal heart rate and uterine activity of the patient.
• Prepare the patient and the room for delivery, vaginal or caesarean.

• Assess breastfeeding needs.

Operational Management

• Participates with the Director in recruitment, staff selection, training, mentoring, retention, counseling, and performance evaluations.
• Monitors availability of supplies and plans for replacement of necessary items and purchase of new items to assure efficient operations.
• Works with the Director to ensure compliance with regulatory and accrediting agency specifications to meet federal, state and local regulations, including Conditions of Participation, DHR, HIPAA, EMTALA, etc.
• Understands operating budget for a unit and participates in expense management
• Meets or exceeds unit-related goals identified on the hospital quality scorecard.
• Understands unit-based Performance Improvement Plan: Measures and Reports Outcomes and Improvement Strategies using PDCA Methodology and tracks unit performance

Communication/Customer Experience

• Rounds on staff, patients, physicians and departments served to identify opportunities for recognition and improvement and to identify needed tools/equipment.
• Provides service recovery for customers
• Maintains open communication with all staff members through staff meetings, email correspondence and other communication methods
• Keeps Director and Administration informed of department activities and significant events
• Promotes safe hand-off communication amongst team members (i.e. bedside rounding, use of hand-off report)
• Demonstrates excellent customer service and conducts duties in a positive, customer-friendly manner to all customers of the department (patients, visitors, physicians, other team members)
• Maintains awareness of patient experience scores and targets areas of needed improvement by using established strategies and by incorporating bedside staff involvement

Education/Development/Personal Initiative

• Insures all new employees have been oriented to units as well as units they may be floated to work in
• Knowledgeable about and follows hospital/unit policies and procedures and communicates effectively to staff
• Participates in department in-service programs; partners with the Unit Director to understand staff knowledge gaps and participates in annual competency requirements.
• Assumes responsibility for personal professional development
• Provides notification of tardiness/attendance and follows attendance guidelines
• Plans for succession by developing and educating others

Diagnosis

• Develop a nursing diagnosis based on assessment and physician diagnosis.
• Recognize symptoms of labor, hemorrhage, uterine abruption.

Planning

• Plans individualized care of the patient based on nursing diagnosis and medical diagnosis.
• Plans for the management of the infant at delivery, coordinating the care with ancillary departments and physicians if needed.
• Identifies the needs of the patient and infant, including physical, emotional, cultural and spiritual.

Implementation

• Implementation of an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Documentation is ongoing patient care to reflect the nursing process.
• Consistent documentation of fetal heart rate and uterine activity of the patient.
• Prepare the patient and the room for delivery, vaginal or caesarean.
• Preforms high quality care based on hospital and department quality measures.
• Assist with breastfeeding.

Evaluation

• Evaluate patient care, documents goals and revise the plan of care according to the patient’s response to interventions.
• Reviews diagnostic studies, prenatal records and other outpatient records.
• Reports and documents abnormal and critical findings according to policy.

Education Requirement:

• Associates Degree
• Bachelors Degree (preferred)
• Master’s Degree (preferred)

License, Certification, Ect:

• Active GA RN license
• NRP (may obtain up to 6 months after hire)
• BLS
• ACLS (may obtain up to 6 months after hire)

​​​​​​​Experience:

Minimum

• Must have L & D experience
• 2 year experience that includes triaging the patient

Preferred