Nurse-Midwife; Certified Nurse-Midwife

EXAM NUMBER

Y5359G

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Under medical direction, provides care to mothers and babies through the maternity cycle of antepartum, intrapartum, post-partum, and neonatal for the medically uncomplicated patient and provides gynecological care, including family planning.

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Be assigned to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and work under the administrative direction of supervising nurse-midwives and the medical direction of physicians. These positions are responsible, within legal restrictions and agency policy, for managing routine pregnancy cases by providing comprehensive care across the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal phases. The Nurse-Midwife exercises independent judgment in determining whether the mother and fetus are progressing within normal limits of obstetrical and gynecological practice or whether a patient's condition requires referral to a physician.

• Reviews the patient's chart and searches for abnormalities that would indicate anything other than a normal birth.
• Obtains patient's medical history and performs an evaluative obstetrical examination, including taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external measurements of the uterus, locating the position of the fetus and estimating its size and weight, and examining breasts and nipples.
• Performs internal pelvic examination to determine the extent of dilation, station, and position of the fetus and general condition of the membranes.
• Interprets the results of each element of the obstetrical examination with normal…