Certified Nurse Midwife

Job description

Employment Type: Full time Shift: Rotating Shift Description: Requesting to add 2 FT CNM positions to staffing to add weekend coverage. Current coverage only includes Monday through Friday with 2.7 FTE of CNM. Requesting to increase to 4.5 and supplement with contingent staffing to include weekend shifts when only 2 residents are assigned. GENERAL SUMMARY: Participates in a program of comprehensive women’s health care, from inter-conception counseling, to assessment of individual woman’s needs, evaluation of obstetrical needs, perinatal follow up, normal spontaneous term labor management, vaginal deliveries, normal newborn evaluation, and well-woman gynecologic examination. Participates as member of the Women’s Health Care Team and practices inter-dependently with the nursing and medical practitioners. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Provide 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. 2. Practices inter-dependently with a team of physicians with whom explicit practice commitments have been developed, within de...