Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
Certified nurse midwife
provides medical care and treatment to obstetrical patients under supervision of obstetrician, delivers babies, and instructs patients in prenatal and postnatal health practices.
Certified Nurse Midwife Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Must be able to effectively problem-solve and work collaboratively
Provide direct inpatient care for antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum patients in ob triage, labor and delivery, antepartum and postpartum units in a level IV hospital
Provide prenatal care at the local public health department with Centering Pregnancy model and traditional prenatal care
Contribute to excellent patient care with a multi-disciplinary team approach
Provide clinical education for advanced practice provider students, ob/gyn and family medicine medical residents, medical students and nursing students
The CNM practice includes primary specialized care provided in multiple locations such as labor and delivery, triage, emergency department, medical/surgical units, and outpatient clinics
Coordinates discharge plan and follow-up
Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight
Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients
Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients
Certified Nurse Midwife Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Certified Nurse Midwife
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ACNM, BLS, ACC, AMCB, ALSO, OB, DEA
Education for Certified Nurse Midwife
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
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:
Clinical practice standards
Hospitalized prenatal
Intranatal
Licensing regulations
Medical/legal principles
Normal maternal / fetal growth and development
Postnatal and GYN patients
Primary care of ambulatory
Professional nursing theory
State health care laws
Desired experience for certified nurse midwife includes:
Or management or leadership role in healthcare (RN, MA, LPN, Clinic supervisor) and at least 2 years in practice a CNM
Provide primary women's health care focusing on pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, care of the newborn and the family planning and gynecological needs of women
Bachelor's degree and Graduate of an accredited school / university of midwifery
Reads, speaks, understands and writes proficiently
Current RN & APN Licensures
2 years of full-scope or inpatient Nurse-Midwifery experience within the last three years
Certified Nurse Midwife Examples
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Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of certified nurse midwife. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for certified nurse midwife
- 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
Qualifications for certified nurse midwife
- 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
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Our company is looking to fill the role of certified nurse midwife. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for certified nurse midwife
- 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
Qualifications for certified nurse midwife
- 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
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Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a certified nurse midwife. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for certified nurse midwife
- 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
Qualifications for certified nurse midwife
- 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
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Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of certified nurse midwife. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for certified nurse midwife
- 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
Qualifications for certified nurse midwife
- 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
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Certified Nurse Midwife Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of certified nurse midwife. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for certified nurse midwife
- 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
Qualifications for certified nurse midwife
- 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