Nurse Midwife

About This Role

Joining the care team at San Joaquin Health Centers, the Nurse Midwife provides compassionate and experienced care, prioritizing patient well-being and fostering a collaborative environment. This role is for a professional who believes in teamwork to achieve better outcomes for patients.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, record, and/or review medical histories and perform acute primary care, annual, periodic, and various other routine physical examinations utilizing problem-oriented medical records or other appropriate systems
• Provide general and specific health and medical instructions to patients, clients, and families
• Coordinate individual and family health management, utilizing physician resources or community agencies
• Provide guidance, instruction, treatment, and referral in areas such as family planning, sexually transmitted diseases (STD), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), drug abuse, child care, and hygiene
• Assist patients with selection, fitting, and placing of appropriate contraceptive devices
• Perform early diagnostic examinations including vision, hearing, pap smears, and other diagnostic tests
• Order laboratory tests, x-rays, electrocardiograms, and other diagnostic tests
• Collect specimens for, perform, and interpret selected laboratory tests and take action on abnormal tests as necessary
• Provide immunizations and give injections
• Identify basic to complex medical conditions
• Determine if patient's medical, surgical, and psychiatric problems require immediate consultations with the physician
• Treat conditions and manage stable phases of chronic illnesses on consultations with or following specific protocols established by physicians, including dispensing and/or administering medication when indicated
• Alert appropriate medical agencies of potential community health problems as encountered
• Provide routine prenatal care and postpartum follow-up for mothers
• Provide comprehensive health screening assessments
• Provide treatment of illness
• Admit/evaluate clients in Family Maternity Center
• Independently manage clients or co-manage with attending physician, clients who may be at higher risk
• Independently attend deliveries of these clients, manage second, third, and fourth stages of labor
• Refer clients outside scope of practice
• Discharge both antepartum and postpartum clients independently
• Observe, counsel, and support patients in the area of psychosocial problems and inter-relationships
• Provide emergency treatment or referral for patients with severe emotional upsets
• Work in clinics
• Make home and school visits