Certified nurse midwife job description

Job Schedule:
Full Time

Standard Hours:
40

Job Shift:
Shift 1

Shift Details:

Work where every moment matters.

Every day, over 30,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network as a Visiting Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).

Hartford HealthCare at Home, the largest provider of homecare services in Connecticut, has been fulfilling our mission for more than 115 years. Our Person-Centered Care Model allows our employees to learn and grow within our organization, all while providing integrated support to the patient. As part of Hartford HealthCare, we leverage cutting edge technology to provide quality care in our client's home. Most importantly, our employees are appreciated for the real differences they make in both the lives of their clients and their clients' families.

Our Revisit LPNs utilize their extensive education and training to provide personalized care to our patients in a rewarding environment that promotes autonomy.

Job Description

· Facilitate communication between the patient and the interdisciplinary team.

· Develop and maintain a therapeutic relationship by providing education and promoting self-advocacy and independence.

· Utilize state-of-the-art technology to document skilled services provided.

Qualifications

· Licensed Practical Nurse with Valid CT LPN license

· One year of LPN experience; Homecare experience preferred.

· Valid driver's license and reliable transportation required.

· Computer proficiency required.

We take great care of careers.

With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge - helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees-- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment .

Are you interested in joining a diverse group of talented, driven midwives committed to providing exceptional care in a tertiary care center, and teaching future generations of birth workers and providers? Do you speak Spanish, Haitian Creole or another language fluently? Are you inspired to work with vulnerable and marginalized populations? The Midwives at Boston Medical Center are looking to hire a full time, full-scope midwife to join our practice.
About Our Practice

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is a full-service academic practice and tertiary care referral group of 35 physicians, 25 CNMs, and 5 NPs. We care for approximately 3,000 births per year, embracing an interdisciplinary and collaborative model of maternity care. Representing nearly one-third of our faculty, midwives are an important voice in our clinical, educational, and research enterprises as well as our social justice and advocacy programs.

The hospital midwifery service attends approximately 900 births per year on the labor and delivery unit. Midwives also provide full-scope midwifery care to women in six neighborhood health centers, the hospital OB-GYN clinic, and our Adolescent Center to a population that is racially, ethnically and economically diverse. The CNM hospital service includes labor and delivery coverage 24 hours/day, a daily post-partum rounding service and daily coverage of our obstetrical triage unit. We work in a collaborative model with highly supportive obstetricians, perinatologists, and family medicine physicians.

This is a teaching position. Midwives at Boston Medical Center participate in the education of resident physicians, medical students and midwifery students through clinical supervision throughout clinical care, through didactic lectures, and in the simulation lab. Interest in teaching and working within diverse teams of people is essential.

The midwifery service is a multicultural group of 20 midwives who together speak English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese, and French. We are committed to holistic and innovative care for birthing people and their families. We have a robust Centering Pregnancy Program, as well as a multi-cultural doula service offering home visiting and labor support (Birth Sisters).

We welcome another energetic midwife with a passion for birth, a commitment to serving diverse populations, an interest in teaching, and a team-oriented style. We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefit package through Boston University.

Minimum Qualifications

At least two years midwifery experience A demonstrated commitment to racial and social justice
Preferred Qualifications
Spanish, Haitian Creole or Vietnamese language abilities Experience working with underserved populations Active Massachusetts Midwifery license

SUMMARY: Under direction, provides antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care. Takes patients' medical histories and performs physical examinations of antepartal and postpartum women and refers to a physician whenever appropriate. Provides family-planning care, immediate care for the newborn and well woman gynecology. Collaborates with physicians and other health professionals in providing nurse-midwifery care. Provides related duties as required.

DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: NOTE: The following are the duties performed by employees in this classification. However, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual in the classification.

1. Takes patients' medical, social obstetric history; provides prenatal care to patients in consultation with a physician; orders medications per obstetric nurse-wife protocols; documents in patients' medical records all care rendered; does chart review and follow-up care.

2. Performs physical examinations including heart and lung, fundal height, fetal heart rates and Leopold's maneuvers; performs vaginal exams, self-breast exams, clinical pelvimetry and general health status exams; determines presence or absence or abnormalities; consults and/or refers complications to a physician.

3. Writes admission orders; orders and/or performs approved laboratory examinations; supports patients during labor and teaches relaxation and breathing techniques as needed; encourages and teaches support persons to actively assist the laboring woman; independently manages and delivers low-risk patients; assumes co-management of high risk women when appropriate; delivers patients followed by a physician when attending in surgery; informs patient and their family of progress and involves them in any treatment, decision or plan; acts as a consultant to house staff and manages all patients in Labor and Delivery when attending MD is in surgery or attending other duties; manages complications and emergencies until physician arrives.

4. Determines status of labor; assesses, confirms and manages premature rupture of membranes; determines the need for amniotomy, IUPC insertion, fetal scalp electrode application, catherizationm IV fluid administration, episiotomy, medication, etc.; determines the need for the presence of attending physician and/or nurse anesthetist; initiates and manages IV oxytocin induction or stimulation of labor after consultation with attending physician; orders appropriate vital signs and fetal heart rate monitoring; assesses uterine contractions/bleeding; injects local anesthesia for episiotomy and repair as indicated; performs episiotomy as indicated; repairs episiotomy, 1st and 2nd degree lacerations, as indicated; examines placental membranes and cord vessels and reports abnormal findings.

5. Performs initial assessment of newborn status; assists in promoting establishment of airway and maintenance of body temperature; begins resuscitation efforts in the absence of physician.

6. Determines appropriateness of discharge; writes postpartum orders as indicated; manages postpartum care (physical/emotional assessment, educational assessment); assesses need for referrals (e.g. Breastfeeding Counselors); signs birth certificate.

7. Provides telephone consultation/referrals to any patient phoning Labor and Delivery with concerns or questions; participates in patient education programs and community education; counsels/completes consent forms for tubal ligations and HIV testing
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Education: Graduate of Board approved program in Nurse-Midwifery or equivalency that is satisfactory to the Board of Registered Nursing. Education: Graduate of an accredited Nursing program required; Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred. Minimum Experience: The equivalent of one year full-time recent nursing experience in an acute care hospital setting (experience in Labor and Delivery is required); OR demonstrated experience which would provide the knowledge and skill necessary for successful performance as a Nurse-Midwife. Preferred Licenses/Certifications: Possession of a current certificate as Nurse-Midwife issued by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Required Licenses/Certifications: APS Perinatal Safety Modules must be completed within 3 months of hire for positions in Labor and Delivery/Maternal Child Health. Required Licenses/Certifications: BLS - Basic Life Support Certification - issued by AHA-American Heart Association. Required Licenses/Certifications: Must apply for, be granted and maintain Allied Health Staff Privileges with AHS. Required Licenses/Certifications: Possession of a current Nurse-Midwife certificate issued by the Board of Registered Nursing of the State of California. Required Licenses/Certifications: Valid license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of California.