The Registered Nurse Navigator, Obstetrics obtains and maintains a patient’s pregnancy encounter throughout the entire pregnancy including post-partum time frame. Serves as a consistent point of contact for patients, reviewing care plan questions they may have, confirming all routine health maintenance testing and education completion.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Complete OB Intake appointment - completing all medical history and education required.
Maintain personal EPIC list with all patients that they have completed intake on to track through each trimester.
Maintain practice specific list for OB patients to track transfers in-out, projections, and transfer details.
Complete ONAF documentation three times for pregnancy episode for all state insurance plan patients within state guidelines. Complete FMLA paperwork as requested.
Complete Check-In Calls at 16 week-28/30 week and 1 week postpartum. During the calls confirm labs are up to date, review educational folder contents, ensure patient is up to date for routine appointments at OB and MFM offices and review scheduling for prenatal education courses.
Complete Depression Screening for each trimester and postpartum call.
Complete any coordination of care appointments with specialist during pregnancy, anesthesia and/or NICU.
Review of educational classes offered and documented in flowsheets.
Review community resources-Nurse Family Partnership and place referrals appropriately.
Demonstrates competency in the assessment, range of treatment, knowledge of growth and development and communication appropriate to the age of the patient treated.
Other duties as assigned.
PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS:
Sit up to 7 hours per day; 3 hours at a time. Stand for up to 3 hours per day; 2 hours at a time. Walk 1 hour per day; 10 minutes at a time. Frequently lifting, carrying, and pushing objects up to 10 pounds. Rarely lifting, carrying, and pushing objects up to 75 pounds. Frequently stooping and bending. Frequently reaching above shoulder level. Must be able to perceive attributes of an object through touch. Must be able to hear as it relates to normal conversation, high and low frequencies. Must be able to see as it relates to general near, far, color and peripheral vision. Must be able to speak as it relates to normal conversation and projection as it relates to lectures and presentations.
EDUCATION:
Registered Nurse with current license to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required. Registered Nurse with current license to practice in both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey is preferred.
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
Two-years women’s health experience required.
Please complete your application using your full legal name and current home address. Be sure to include employment history for the past seven (7) years, including your present employer. Additionally, you are encouraged to upload a current resume, including all work history, education, and/or certifications and licenses, if applicable. It is highly recommended that you create a profile at the conclusion of submitting your first application. Thank you for your interest in St. Luke's!!
Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school campus. It also operates the nation’s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and over 50 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 500 residents and fellows. In 2022, St. Luke’s, a member of the Children’s Hospital Association, opened the Lehigh Valley’s first and only free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids. SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.
