Certified Nurse Midwife, Holtz Women's Hospital, Per Diem, Nights

Responsibilities

• Provides professional care for delivery related services.
• Performs prenatal history, and physical examinations.
• Completes prenatal care of normal obstetric patients.
• Diagnose the onset of labor and performs the admission history and physical examinations of patients in labor.
• Educates patient and family to facilitate and support health adjustments to new or changing health patterns.
• Provides consultation and proper hand off about the patient's therapeutic regimen to other members of the health care team.
• Facilitates the continuity of care across the continuum of services, e.g. home care, community referrals, other facilities, appointments with other providers or specialists, etc.
• Ensures complete and thorough documentation for all services rendered.
• Plans and organizes care to meet individual patient needs and to ensure appropriate clinical resource utilization per protocols, pathways, and other means.
• Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to maintain timely and appropriate communication with patient, family, other disciplines, and ancillary services.
• Incorporate best practices to continuously improve quality of care and clinical judgement.
• Maintains current expertise in Midwifery Practice and Advanced Practice Nursing.
• Serves as a clinical expert and resource for the education of peers and other health professionals including Residents, especially as it relates to the management of low risk pregnancy and other aspects care.
• Integrates appropriate technologies for knowledge management to improve health care delivery.
• Follows and performs all related unit specific policies and procedures, as detailed on the unit specific competency check-list.
• Utilizes job and unit specific equipment as required.
• Demonstrates behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Expertise).
• Performs all other related job duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Generally requires 5 to 7 years of related experience.
• Master's degree in Nursing is required.
• Valid Florida licensed RN/ARNP or eligibility for licensure as Nurse Midwife/Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner.
• National Board Certification in related field required (i.e. National Board Certification Nurse Midwife or Nurse Practitioner).
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers is required upon hire with at least 6 months validity and maintenance at JHS for the duration of employment.
• Must meet and maintain valid and current all unit specific and organizational skills/competencies, certifications/licensures, as required by regulatory and/or nursing standard of practice for the specialty.