Perinatal Nurse

Summary

Join Pomelo Care, a dynamic healthcare startup, as a Registered Nurse specializing in maternal-child health. You will provide patient-centered care, develop individualized care plans, and utilize technology to monitor patients remotely. This full-time position offers evening or daytime shifts and requires 4+ years of experience in maternal-child health, including labor and delivery. The role involves ongoing clinical assessments, addressing care gaps, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Pomelo Care offers competitive benefits, including healthcare, generous equity compensation, and a generous vacation policy. The ideal candidate is fluent in English/Spanish, holds a BSN, and possesses a multi-state nursing license.

Requirements

• Fluency is English/Spanish without the use of an interpreter
• Registered Nurse, BSN prepared, current unrestricted multi-state (compact) license
• Have 4+ years RECENT experience in a hospital and/or healthcare practice, serving maternal-child health populations (minimum 3 years in labor and delivery and LDRP or Antepartum)
• Flexible and agile thinker who embraces change
• Are internet-connected, able to work remotely via video, phone and text
• Willing to travel occasionally (infrequent)
• Willing to work weekends and holidays
• Understand the prevalence and role that birth inequity and structural racism plays in maternal morbidity and mortality
• Professionally engaged

Responsibilities

• Ongoing clinical and psychosocial assessment of new patients, providing reassurance and building rapport
• Establishing individualized care plans to meet specific health needs based on evidence-based standards
• Developing wellness goals by determining motivating factors and leveraging them for best possible health outcomes
• Identifying and addressing barriers to care that have been identified by patients and/or the care team
• Reducing care gaps (missed appointments, medication management, etc.) by frequent engagements with patient
• Assessing the need for and educating patients on the equipment they will use to monitor their health remotely
• Ongoing surveillance and timely response to abnormal diagnostic results (labs, radiology, etc.)
• Assessment of urgent concerns and proactively triaging patients to support appropriate utilization of emergency services
• Timely documentation of all care/interactions and escalating to appropriate multidisciplinary teams, as needed
• Supporting the development of programs and product by providing user feedback

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with perinatal patients who have had pregnancy related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, perinatal loss, etc
• Experience providing virtual care

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare benefits
• Generous equity compensation
• Generous vacation policy