Description:

Registered nurses support midwifery model care in the community birth setting, directly assist the midwife in caring for clients during the course of prenatal, labor, postpartum, and newborn care, and maintain clinical responsibilities that facilitate smooth operation of the birth center.

The full-time Staff RN will have two (2) nine-hour office days that also encompass an 8a-8p birth assistant call shift and four (4) additional 12-hour call shifts including weekend call. Although this position involves call, the RN can expect to attend approximately three to four (3-4) eight (8)-hour labors per month and three to four (3-4) 2-hour postpartum visits per month.

The part-time Staff RN will have one (1) nine-hour office day that also encompass an 8a-8p birth assistant call shift and four (4) additional 12-hour call shifts including weekend call. Although this position involves call, the RN can expect to attend approximately two eight (8)-hour labors per month and two 2-hour postpartum visits per month. This position is equivalent to a 0.7 FTE in the hospital setting.

The per diem Staff RN will have two to three (2-3) 12-hour call shifts per week (negotiable), including weekend call. The RN can expect to attend approximately one eight (8)-hour labor per month and one to two 2-hour postpartum visits per month.

This position requires relevant experience in labor & delivery, mother/baby, or neonatal nursing.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Upon initiation of employment, the nurse will complete an orientation and will be expected to read and understand The Coit House policies and procedures manual.
• Office hours: During office hours, the RN will result normal labs & ultrasounds, answer portal messages, assist with statistics keeping, maintain stock of medications and supplies, and assist with review of medical records from transfers into the practice.
• Prenatal care: The RN may conduct prenatal care visits in accordance with their scope of practice in NYS and will communicate prenatal data to the midwife in a timely manner.
• Intrapartum care: the nurse will, at the direction of the CNM, provide or conduct labor support, set up the room for birth, monitor vital signs and fetal heart tones, assist with resuscitation, and administer medications. RNs may also provide early labor support.
• Immediate postpartum care: The nurse will assist with ongoing assessment of postpartum person and newborn, provide postpartum education, assist with discharge home, and schedule follow up postpartum appointments.
• Continuing Competency
  • Maintains current certification in BLS and neonatal resuscitation.
  • Assist in planning of and implementation of in-service and drill programs for staff
  • Attendance at staff in-service programs and emergency drills.
• Continuous Quality Improvement: The nurse will be responsible for continuous quality improvement activities as assigned by the Director, including twice yearly CQI reviews, perinatal data registry, monthly chart reviews, staff meetings, and planning and implementing drills.

Benefits: Fika Midwifery offers a competitive benefits package including health and dental insurance, generous 401(K) match, cell phone and mileage reimbursement, paid time off, some paid holidays, and a continuing education stipend.

Qualifications:

• Nursing license in NYS
• Background check
• Physical ability to carry birth equipment up and down stairs, clean up after birth, and squat, bend, and reach to accommodate the woman’s chosen laboring positions
• Technical skills to perform basic charting functions
• NRP certification
• CPR/BLS certification
• Belief in midwifery model of care, out of hospital birth, physiologic birth, and breastfeeding
• Experience in labor & delivery or neonatal nursing