Certified Nurse Midwife (.FTE

Position: Certified Nurse Midwife (.8 FTE)
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** Organization:
** Vanderbilt Midwifery Melrose
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* Job Summary:

** Works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team providing healthcare in inpatient and/or outpatient health care settings. Didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in identified area of clinical practice. Manages women's health care, focusing particularly on pregnancy, childbirth, the post-partum period, care of the newborn, and the family planning and gynecologic needs of women. Practice within the health care system and perform consultation, collaborative management, or referral, as indicated by the health status of the patient.

Considers the interpersonal, inter-relationship of gender, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, economic status and socio-political power differentials. With advanced knowledge of nursing theory and its application, the CNM demonstrates medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsibility for life-long professional development and competency validation. Practice in accord with the Standards for the Practice of Midwifery, as defined by the American College of Nurse-Midwives..
** Position

Hours:

*** .8 FTE
* This role includes a mix of 12‑hour Labor & Delivery hospital shifts (7a–7p and 7p–7a, Sunday–Saturday) and 8‑hour clinic shifts (8a–5p, Monday–Friday) at Vanderbilt Midwives Melrose. The split between hospital and clinic shifts is approximately 50/50, depending on monthly practice needs. Providers typically work around 13 shifts per month, such as:  + 6 clinic / 7 hospital in one month  + 5 clinic / 8 hospital in another

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  
• Obtains and documents a health history; performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examination, assessment and plan of care.  
• In collaboration, provides healthcare services for primary, acute and complex care of patients and manages patient's overall care, identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses.  
• Orders, performs, interprets and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.  
• Forms differential diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions.  
• Prescribes therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic and surgical, needed to achieve expected outcomes.  
• Utilizes evidence-based, approved practice protocols in planning and implementing care;
Initiates appropriate referrals and consultations;
Provides specialty specific consultation services upon request and within specialty scope of practice;
Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
** Our Nursing Philosophy:
** We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of quality in patient care, education and research. We believe nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families and communities reach excellent health and well-being. As a Vanderbilt University Medical Center employee, you make a difference to our patients and their families by bringing compassion and care to those in need…