Registered Nurse Women's Health Care Coordinator

Women's Health RN Care Coordinator

The functions of the Women's Health RN Care Coordinator include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinating and tracking gender-specific care (breast, cervical, maternity/post partum, fertility) of patients throughout all aspects of the medical center, including Community Based Outpatient Clinics, as well as community vendors and/or agencies.
• Monitoring breast or cervical cancer screening measures with focus on processes to improve screening metric to meet facility and national benchmarks as assigned.
• Assisting with VA consult referrals or community services for the patient to include coordinating any subsequent appointments or follow-up, as needed.
• Educating patients on a variety of gender-specific topics, to include importance of routine medical screenings including VA and community-based resources for gender specific care.
• Demonstrates knowledge of gender specific care including maternity/lactation, breast and cervical health, reproductive care including fertility management.
• Completes ongoing telephone contact for assigned veteran panel guided by MCC Program Manual throughout the duration of pregnancy and one year into the postpartum period to assess clinical and/or social care needs, facilitating care and services between VA and non-VA care providers as assigned.
• Responsible for management and tracking of breast or cervical screening results as assigned and ensuring timeliness of patient notification results by ordering provider for normal and abnormal results.
• Demonstrates ability to locate resources in timely manner and critical thinking skills to resolve patient care needs independently and within scope of practice.
• Collaborates with inter-professional teams using various methods to facilitate patient care coordination and alerts appropriate team members for actionable items.
• Participates in daily huddles, in-person meetings, and all Women's Health outreach events, resource fairs, focus groups, and town halls.
• Documenting all patient care interactions accurately within 2 business days; uses appropriate note titles, templates, and clinical reminders in the electronic medical record.
• Utilizing and maintaining tracking spreadsheets and monitoring/tracking data systems as required by VHA Directives and Handbooks, as well as by requests of the WHPM and WHMD.
• Maintaining professional skills in the application of professional bodies of knowledge and accepted clinical practices that will facilitate oversight of service delivery of patient care.
• Participating in quality improvement programs and initiatives including system redesign, to improve access, quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction.
• Other duties as assigned.

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: Full time; 0730-1600

Compressed/Flexible: N/A

Telework: N/A

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized