About This Role
This role provides physician-supervised physical and emotional care for mothers during labor, delivery, and postpartum phases. The Nurse Midwife evaluates progress, manages labor and delivery, and provides immediate care for normal newborns.
Responsibilities
- Perform complete history and physical examination on new patients admitted to the labor room
- Write admission notes, utilizing the attending physician when appropriate
- Discuss new admissions with the attending physician and nursing staff, including noted complications
- Decide who will follow the patient and develop a plan for care
- Perform admissions diagnostics and care, including, but not limited to, pelvic examination, cervical cultures, drawing blood, and starting intravenous lines
- Follow the progress of labor of all patients in the labor and delivery suite in collaboration with the attending physician and nursing staff
- Monitor fetal heart rate patterns and notify the appropriate physician of significant deviations
- Examine patients periodically to determine progress in labor with ongoing assessment of maternal and fetal reaction to the progress of labor
- Report any abnormalities in the patient’s condition to the physician, including, but not limited to, meconium, bleeding, hypertonic labor, fetal distress, failure of progress in labor, and malpresentation
- Participate in deliveries
- Perform related duties as required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Master’s Degree in Nurse Midwifery from an accredited midwifery educational program
- Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State
- Current licensure as a Nurse Midwife in the State of New York
- American Midwifery Board Certification
- Collaborative practice agreement with a physician and designated protocols, both filed with the New York State Department of Education
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