Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
Certified Nurse Midwife Duties & Responsibilities
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Certified Nurse Midwife Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Certified Nurse Midwife
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Education for Certified Nurse Midwife
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Employers hiring for the certified nurse midwife job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Midwifery, Graduate, Patient Care, Teaching, Education, Medical, Health, Management, Health Care
Skills for Certified Nurse Midwife
Desired skills for certified nurse midwife include:
Desired experience for certified nurse midwife includes:
Certified Nurse Midwife Examples
Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
- Facilitates the continuity of care across the continuum of services, home care, other facilities, appointments with MD’s Writes prescriptions for patients being discharged home in a timely manner
- Participates in patient, family and community education, resources development, implementation, and evaluation
- Facilitates the continuity of care across the continuum of services, home care, community referrals, other facilities, appointments with other providers or specialists
- Reviews health histories and performs physical exams to diagnose accurately female gynecological and obstetrical conditions throughout the normal female life cycle
- Orders and interprets diagnostic and laboratory tests
- Prescribes appropriate medication, follow-up tests and exams
- Completes appropriate medical record documentation
- Consistently collaborates with colleagues, manages obstetrical emergencies pending physician arrival
- Acts as a professional role model of advanced practice professional nursing through conduct, appearance, communication, mutual respect, leadership, ethical decision-making, critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Must be available to work days, eve, nights,weekends and holidays in order to meet patient needs
- Previous experience as a CNM required
- Current Prescriptive Authority (RxN) Licensure (Any State)
- Graduation from a Masters level educational program within 5 years of hire
- Minimum of 2 years acute care experience as an RN in Labor & Delivery
- Graduation from a Midwifery Masters level educational program
- Demonstrated ability to work in teams and have effective communications and listening skills
Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
- Assists administration, medical director and department manager in actively marketing specialty care services to potential referral sources and third party payers to include hospital tours and Meet and Greet events
- Identifies the need for new policies and procedures and communicates such to department manager
- Participates in data collection for approved research projects by collecting and analyzing data, revising protocols and procedures, revising educational materials
- Participates in setting annual objectives for the program
- Evaluates educational materials to ensure adequacy, develops new materials when necessary, in collaboration with pertinent team members
- Work in concert with nursing staff to improve bedside patient care of laboring women
- Hire, and take steps to retain, qualified and experienced CNMs
- Maintain a reliable clinic/call schedule for the CNMs
- Maintain an effective Doula program
- Experience with quality management programs and current knowledge of best practices in quality management
- Other certification as required
- Applicable certification from a recognized certifying organization such as American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) or the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
- Graduation from an accredited midwifery program with a Master’s Degree in Nursing or related field
- Minimum of 3 years of midwifery experience, preferably in a tertiary care setting
- Current RN and APN licensures (Any State) (Could be working toward CO clinical licenses during application process and registered with DORA-Department of Regulatory Agencies.)
- Minimum of 3 to 5 years experience in full service midwifery practice required
Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
- Adept at establishing and maintaining effective interpersonal relationships with a wide range of health care professionals and institutions
- Demonstrated excellence in leadership and collaborative skills
- Exceptional judgment, tact and discretion
- Will, in partnership with other midwife team members, provide 24/7–365 coverage of the hospital based midwife practice patients
- Manages antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and immediate neonatal care of patients in accordance with the Medical staff bylaws and rules and regulations, nursing and advanced practice nursing act
- Examines patient during pregnancy
- Prescribes medications within guidelines of collaborative agreement
- Provides on call coverage as assigned
- Antepartum care
- Intrapartum care
- Board certified by the time of employment
- At least 3 years of OB/GYN of experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Master’s Degree in Nurse Midwifery from an accredited midwifery educational program, required
- Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, required and current licensure as a Nurse Midwife in the State of New York, required
- American Midwifery Board Certification, required
- Requires a Masters Degree in Nursing and current RN licensure in the state of MA
Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
- Documents patient care findings within established standards and accreditation requirements
- Manages the medical plan of care prescribed for the client, based on protocols or guidelines adopted jointly by the certified nurse midwife, and attending physician
- Initiates referrals to external or internal care providers or community agencies as needed
- Provides an accurate, thorough and timely report of patient’s condition to physicians and multidisciplinary team members
- Recognizes life-threatening situations and intervenes correctly with minimal supervision
- Reassesses patients regularly and revises interventions/plan of care based on evaluation of effectiveness, change in medical condition and/or patient satisfaction
- Reports changes in patient condition in a timely and effective manner
- Documents the patient’s condition and capability to manage continuing care needs in the discharge/transfer note
- Assist with care of patients in the clinic
- Communicate patient condition changes to physician and coordinate care
- Experienced NP or WHNP applications will be considered
- Bachelor or Masters degree in Midwifery or Nursing or related field
- Two years of work in full-scope midwifery
- Current licensing as a Registered Nurse and as an Advanced Practice Nurse/Nurse-midwife by the Texas State Board of Nurse- Examiners
- Current certification by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB)
- Masters’ degree in Midwifery or nursing or related field
Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
- Provide obstetric and gynecologic care consistent with the SCMC and SMHE clinical guidelines in the clinic setting consistent with the SCMC and SMHE clinical guidelines in the clinic setting
- Provide triage evaluations in labor and delivery and the emergency room, obtaining a history and physical, and admitting patients to SMHE with physician consultation when appropriate and the emergency room, obtaining a history and physical, and admitting patients to SMHE with physician consultation when appropriate
- Provide antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum care including performing vaginal deliveries and rounding care including performing vaginal deliveries and rounding
- Assist in cesarean sections and in gynecological surgeries (with adequate documentation of training) surgeries (with adequate documentation of training)
- Perform limited bedside ultrasound and interpret fetal monitoring for obstetric patients fetal monitoring for obstetric patients
- Participate in quality assurance activities such as attending quarterly clinical care line meetings as attending quarterly clinical care line meetings
- Review labs, clinical tasks and patient messages regularly when not on site
- Utilizes fetal monitoring screening for auscultating, monitoring, and assessment of fetal heart tones
- Communicates the plan of care across the continuum by thoroughly completing appropriate transfer forms and discharge summary forms
- Selects therapeutic interventions which are appropriate to the patient’s needs and desired outcomes
- Master of Science degree with completion of an accredited Certified Nurse Midwifery Program required
- Current state licensure as a Certified Nurse Midwife or eligible required, certified in area of specialty
- Current BLS & NRP required
- To be considered, candidates must demonstrate prior performance of at least 20 deliveries in past 24 months
- Current ACNM certification
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing and graduate of an accredited Nurse-Midwifery program