Ob/gyn vs nurse midwife

Differences between ob/gyn and nurse midwife duties and responsibilities

Ob/gyn example responsibilities.

• Manage patient files by making new charts, keying all encounters through ICD-9 coding procedures and posting in patient database.
• Recognize and manage maternal complications: hemorrhage, preeclampsia, endometritis.
• Demonstrate clinical competency and compassion in providing care, using technology, performing procedures and managing emergencies.
• Work in many different specialties including: family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, podiatry, OB/GYN, and cardiology.
• Complete routine pap smears, ob appointments of patients in all stages of pregnancy.
• Work in various practices including family practice, endocrinology, pediatrics, OB/GYN and internal medicine.
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Nurse midwife example responsibilities.

• Full scope CNM care for busy manage healthcare facility and hospital.
• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Provide tracheostomy care, trauma, burns, diabetic care.
• Participate in the clinical education of ob residents, medical and nursing students.
• Assist in bedside surgery, all types of ventilation, arterial and venous lines.
• Diagnose, monitor and examine women and foetus during pregnancy, labour and delivery.
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