Nurse Midwife

Job Description

Provides physical and emotional care for the mother during labor delivery and postpartum phases. Evaluates progress and manages the labor and delivery.

Job Responsibility

• Performs complete history and physical examination on new patients admitted to the labor room and writes admission notes utilizing the attending physician when appropriate.
• Discusses new admissions with the attending physician and nursing staff including noted complications.
• Decides who will follow the patient and develops a plan for care.
• Performs admissions diagnostics and care including but not limited to pelvic examination cervical cultures drawing bloods and starting intravenous lines.
• Follows progress of labor of all patients in labor and delivery suite in collaboration with the attending physician and nursing staff.
• Monitors fetal heart rate patterns and notifies the appropriate physician of significant deviations.
• Examines patients periodically to determine progress in labor with ongoing assessment of maternal and fetal reaction to the progress of labor.
• Reports any abnormalities in patients condition to physician including but not limited to meconium bleeding hypertonic labor fetal distress failure of progress in labor malpresentation.
• Participates in deliveries.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing and Masters 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.

*Additional Salary Detail
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