Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - Certified Nurse Midwife; APRN-CNM

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - Certified Nurse Midwife (APRN-CNM)

Hiring Department:
Mile Square Health Center

Location:

Chicago, IL USA

Requisition

Posting Close Date:
Jan 2nd, 2026

Salary:
The budgeted salary range for the position is $116,366 to $140,499. We strive to provide a competitive salary, considering factors such as available market data, internal equity, candidate experience and qualifications, and budget constraints. The final salary offer will be determined through a thorough assessment of these elements.

The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health) provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the people of Illinois and beyond. A part of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), UI Health comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a Joint Commission‑accredited tertiary care hospital and outpatient clinics, and the Mile Square Health Center network of federally qualified health centers.

It also includes the seven UIC health science colleges: the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of Dentistry; the School of Public Health; the Jane Addams College of Social Work; and the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, including regional campuses in Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford, Springfield, and Urbana. UI Health is dedicated to the pursuit of health equity.

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This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - Certified Nurse Midwife 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.

This is a full‑time (100% FTE) position with responsibilities distributed as follows:

• 60% will be spent within the Mile Square Health Center – Auburn Gresham Clinic.
• 25% will be spent within the College of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology department.
• 15% will be spent within the UI Hospital OB / Gyn department.

• 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. Provide sexually transmitted infection treatment to partners of patients.
• Perform initial infant evaluation and initiate emergency measures when indicated. Interpret diagnostic tests and prescribe medications including controlled substances. Administer local anesthesia, perform routine deliveries and episiotomies.
• Work collaboratively with other staff members of the OB care team.
• Provide 24‑hour 7…