Certified Nurse Midwife, Women's Health

Site: Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation

 

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The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.

The Center for Women’s Health & Wellness brings together OB/GYN physicians and midwives with specialists in maternal fetal medicine and genetic testing. Through our affiliation with Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and Mass General Brigham our patients also benefit from state-of-the-art care in breast health, cancer care and more. The Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Center for Women’s Health & Wellness offers a new model for women’s healthcare on the Seacoast. The center and inpatient services bring together expert OB/GYN physicians along with two Certified Nurse Midwives, 24/7 NICU and Anesthesia providers, and nurse navigators to help women manage all aspects of their care. Our spacious and comfortable Birth Center welcomes more than 1,700 babies each year, making us the most popular center on the Seacoast. Private rooms offer mom, baby and family all the comforts of home, while facilitating education of the whole family by our nurses on caring for a new baby and postpartum care.

 

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced 30-hour, Certified Nurse Midwife to support our inpatient and outpatient clinic teams. The schedule consist of 1, 12 hour call day and 2 office days (this may change based on needs of the department).

Our inpatient services are offered at the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital main campus. The in house call component of this role is a 12-hour day, either 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM or 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM.

The office days will consist of an 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM schedule, seeing 20 patients per day at the Wentworth-Douglass Center for Women's Health & Wellness located in Portsmouth, NH.

Responsible for safe and personalized care to patients in the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and routine GYN settings.

Does this position require Patient Care? Yes

Essential Functions
-Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and/or newborn care to patients.
-Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
-Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
-Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.
-Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.
-Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
-Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members, or others.
-Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.

 

Qualifications

Education
Master's Degree Nursing required

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?
No

Licenses and Credentials
Midwife, Certified Nurse [State License] required

Experience
Minimum of two years of experience as a Nurse Midwife is required to be a Midwife II 2-3 years required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Familiarity with Electronic Medical Record systems.
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Ability to teach others.
- Excellent problem-solving, case management, and communication skills.
- Knowledge of related accreditation and certification requirements.