Certified Nurse Midwife - Jefferson New Jersey

Responsibilities

• Providing comprehensive inpatient clinical care to OB/GYN patients consistent with existing practice protocols, organizational standards, legal and regulatory requirements
• Providing outpatient gynecologic and obstetric care in a collaborative practice with EMCM Ob/Gyn physicians
• Providing inpatient obstetrical coverage that involves initial evaluation of parturient and continued care and delivery of normally laboring patients under the guidance of the labor floor staff physician

Assessment & Management

• Performing complete history & physicals and documenting in the medical record
• Ordering and collecting data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated
• Serving as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions
• Assessing for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including: medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions and diagnostic procedures

Diagnosis

• Collaborating with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions
• Making and interpreting diagnostic tests through ordering, performance, and supervision
• Formulating differential diagnoses by priority
• Diagnosing complications and ordering appropriate interventions

Plan of Care

• Identifying expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulating and documenting a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs
• Utilizing evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum
• Implementing and modifying plan of care
• Prescribing diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions
• May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation

Documentation

• Documenting/dictating key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and or clinic note where applicable
• (h&p, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries, in medical record per specific patient unit or service, death summary)
• Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity

Communication and Collaboration

• Maintaining ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team
• Facilitating and communicating with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care

Professional Practice

• Demonstrating Professional Practice behaviors including: preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of graduate students
• Seeking opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice
• Actively participating in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty specific meetings
• Maintaining CEUs, and membership in a professional organization

Job Description

Master’s Degree from accredited Midwifery Program
AMCB Board Certification
BLS certification
RN License

Salary Range

The actual hiring rate will be determined based on candidate experience, skills and qualifications. This position is not eligible for an annual incentive. Positions posted as annual salaries reflect an estimated amount for a 1.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) (i.e. 40 hour equivalent)), positions for less than 1.0 FTE will be prorated.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular Employee

Entity

Kennedy Medical Group, Practice, PC

Primary Location

205 East Laurel Road, Stratford, New Jersey, United States of America