Certified Midwife - Lowell General Hospital

Job Overview 

The position performs and supervises services in a designated area according to the policies, procedures, philosophy, and objectives of the department and of the hospital. Works cooperatively within the department and other services to create a system of quality health care. The position is an advanced practice nurse who is responsible for the assessment, plan, implementation, and evaluation of nurse midwifery care delivered to gynecologic, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum, and newborn patients. The position performs physical exams, collects and documents data, manages labor and spontaneous delivery, conducts diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, orders and schedules lab studies and professional consultations, and prescribes medication and interventions appropriately.​ 

Job Description 

Minimum Qualifications: 

1. Master’s degree in Nursing. 

2. Basic Life Support Certification. 

3. One (1) year of experience. 

4. Controlled Substance Registration Certificate and DEA Registration Number. 

5. Maintains medical malpractice insurance. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

1. Three (3) years of experience. 

Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list.  Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned. 

1. Provides direct inpatient clinical services and management of mother and babies as defined in the hospital’s standing orders, policies, procedures and protocols for the certified nurse midwife. 

2. Performs inpatient rounding for antepartum and postpartum patients. 

3. Manages uncomplicated vaginal deliveries. 

4. Assists the physicians in cesarean sections as needed. 

5. Orders and interprets Non-Stress Tests (NST) appropriately. 

6. Provides occasional on-call coverage when agreed upon with medical director. 

7. Obtains patient health histories and complete physical examinations.  

8. Ordering and interpreting appropriate diagnostic and lab tests.  

9. Assess patient for change in status and institute appropriate interventions.   

10. Provides patient and family education related to prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, interconceptional, and age-appropriate well woman care. 

11. Utilizes current research and evidence-based decision making in all clinical practices. 

Physical Requirements:  

1. Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking. 

2. Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfer patients and equipment. 

3. Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching. 

4. Frequent exposure to hazardous chemicals, sick patients, bodily substances, noise and possible exposure to radiation, lasers, electric shock, etc. 

5. Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases and other transmissible infections. 

6. Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances. 

7. Subject to varying and unpredictable situations. 

8. Handle emergency and crisis situations. 

9. May have contact with hazardous materials. 

Skills & Abilities: 

1. Possesses and applies the skills and knowledge necessary to provide care to patients throughout the life span, with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and cultural patterns in each step of the care process. 

2. Ability to provide primary care for a caseload of patients according to practice guidelines and hospital policies, procedures and protocols. 

3. Possesses and applies the skills and knowledge necessary to provide care to patients throughout the life span, with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and cultural patterns in each step of the care process. This includes: Knowledge of growth and development; Ability to interpret age specific data and response to care; and Provide age specific communication.