Certified Nurse Midwife

About the role

This position will work 40 hours per week and include on call coverage.

Responsibilities

• Provide full scope of midwifery services, including GYN throughout the life-cycle, prenatal education, attending childbirth, providing encouragement during labor and delivery, and supervising the general care of women and children directly after birth.
• Facilitate care to women during normal pregnancies and deliveries and call on obstetricians or other physicians if complications develop.
• Manage the overall care of healthy childbearing through the prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum experience, including newborn assessment at delivery and lactation support.
• Provide gynecological care such as wellness exams and family planning assistance.
• Evaluate and provide treatment procedures necessary in urgent medical situations and consult the collaborating or on-call physician.
• Prescribe medications and therapies appropriate to scope of practice.
• Provide primary care to women, including obtaining histories, performing appropriate medical exams, conducting health screening procedures, diagnosing, treating and monitoring common and acute health care problems, and providing health education.
• Act as surgical assistant at c-section and gynecological procedures.

Education Qualifications

• Master’s Degree graduate of an accredited school of nursing and midwifery program accredited by the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM).

Experience Qualifications

• 1–3 years clinical experience as a registered nurse in labor and delivery.
• Preferred: Experience in C-Section First Assist.

Skills and Abilities

• Maintain appropriate and complete clinical records, fostering communication between health care providers, continuity of care, and coordination of services.
• Maintain knowledge of current statutes regulating nurse-midwifery practice and provide services within the limitations as established by state licensure boards, local and federal regulations.