Certified Nurse Midwife - Contingent

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides obstetric care, inter-dependently with the medical team, to clients attending any of the patient care sites supported by the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and dedicated to Obstetric/Gynecology services.
• Participates as member of the Women’s Health Care Team and practices inter-dependently with the nursing and medical practitioners.
• Develops appropriate clinical tools jointly with the medical team to assess potential obstetric risk.
• Develops care guidelines, jointly with the medical team, for obstetrical clients’ follow up, consultation and transfer when indicated by deviations from normal.
• Promotes and provides childbirth and breast-feeding education on an on-going basis to enhance the aspects of normalcy in human pregnancy.
• Provides additional care to non-midwifery obstetrical clients inter-dependently with the medical team when mutually agreed upon.
• Develops, in conjunction with nursing, medical team and administration, innovative programs for the care of obstetric clients.
• Promotes the philosophy and education of nurse midwivery by participation in division of education programs for clients and health care providers.
• In the Labor and Delivery area, participates in the initial evaluation of obstetrical clients and provides initial clinical impressions and assessments as needed, in cooperation with the medical team.
• Participates and promotes a collegial inter-professional relationship with nursing, medicine and all other support personnel.
• Participates in clinical or basic research, quality assurance and surveys related to institutional operational improvement in women’s health care as it relates to midwifery education and care.
• Performs all other duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Certified nurse midwife, as licensed by the American College of Nurse Midwifery and approved training programs in the United States.
• Foreign-trained midwives must have completed all requirements as developed by the American College of Nurse Midwives.
• Licensed by the American College of Nurse Midwifery.
• Prefers active practice of clinical midwifery experience.