APP| Certified Nurse Midwife

Job:
Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) – 32 hours per week, variable shift, call rotation required. Full-time benefits available. Work in a busy OB practice with 5 certified nurse midwives.

• Provide midwifery care for patients with obstetric and gynecologic needs during labor delivery and postpartum.
• Monitors patients' condition during pregnancies, including co-management of high-risk pregnancies, and performs examinations and procedures.
• Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
• Maintain and record information in medical records or provide narrative summaries to communicate patient information to other health care providers.
• Provide guidance to expectant mothers in prenatal self-care, e.g., nutrition, weight gain, and daily activity levels.
• Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, inter-conceptional, well‑woman, and gynecologic care and education for women and their families.
• Maintain records of patient conditions and test results within care plans.
• Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests and prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.

• Master’s degree, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), or Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) level education required from an approved accredited nursing educational program of the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) and American Midwifery Certification Board Medical (AMCB).
• Currently holds an unencumbered license as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) and Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM).
• Must maintain current registered nursing (RN) license and APRN CNM licensure where the practice is occurring and/or possess multistate licensure if in a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state.
• Must work within the legal scope of practice and subject to the states’ legal constraints and regulations for all licenses held.
• Required to pass certification examination as stipulated by the appropriate state board.
• Must obtain and maintain appointment at their respective Sanford facility.
• Obtain and maintain approval of applicable scope of practice.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) preferred.
• Must provide Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration number.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Obtain and subsequently maintain required department specific competencies and certifications.

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet.