APRN - Certified Nurse Midwife

Position Summary

 The APRN-CNM provides comprehensive health care for women from puberty through menopause in medical areas including prenatal, labor and delivery care, health care assessment, diagnosis and management for preventive health, normal gynecologic care, and minor medical problems as determined by scope of practice guidelines. Implement, interpret and manage laboratory, radiology or other diagnostic screenings and prescribe therapeutic agents, medications and devices. Educate patients on health status improvement and prevention techniques. Direct and manage members of the health care team in campus and off-campus clinical sites. Supervise and teach graduate students and resident physicians in clinical settings, lectures and skills assessment labs. Initiate or participate in research.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Perform physical exams, collect and document data, manage labor, and conduct diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and laboratory studies.
• Assess patients for admission and admit when required. Independently manage and deliver low risk women in labor who are greater or equal to 37 weeks.
• Perform and record initial prenatal history and physical on patients in OB ER and labor and delivery (L&D).
• Provide routine prenatal and intrapartum care and document admission, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum orders for low-risk women.
• Provide out-patient prenatal, gynecologic and women’s health care services for low-risk women.
• Evaluation and examination of complicated patients in the high-risk obstetric clinic, reproductive health clinic, OBER and labor and delivery and present to OB/GYN for management plan, and document orders/implementation.
• Provide care according to the collaborative practice agreements at UI Health.
• Perform initial infant evaluation and initiate emergency measures when indicated.
• Work collaboratively with other staff members of the OB care team.
• Provide 24 hour 7 days per week in-house coverage for the midwifery practice including back up call.
• Assist with scheduling of patients for upcoming procedures including coordinating with other services and completion of necessary documentation, scheduling forms, insurance forms and clearance.
• Perform other related duties and projects as the clinical practice evolves.
• Provide sexually transmitted infection treatment to partners of patients.
• Administer local anesthesia, perform routine deliveries and episiotomies
• Interpret diagnostic tests and prescribe medications including controlled substances.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.