Title: Certified Nurse Midwife
Supervisor: Clinical Midwifery Director
Job Classification: Category 1 – may have exposure to blood/infectious material.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Current license as a Registered Nurse in North Carolina
- Certification by the American Midwifery Certification Board
- Current Approval to Practice granted by the NC Midwifery Joint Committee OR meets qualifications for Approval to Practice pending Physician Supervision requirement
- Graduate degree in Nursing or Midwifery
Job Expectations:
Competency in the practice of nurse midwifery within the limits of the specialty.
Acceptance of several principles of community health care that include, but are not limited to the following: Commitment to midwifery model of care, commitment to practice of health promotion and disease prevention, appropriate risk stratification, provision of trauma-informed and gender-affirming care, commitment to actively addressing health inequities and to providing safe spaces for marginalized people and communities.
Job Requirements:
- Provides in office care to primary care, wellness, lactation, gynecology, and child-bearing patients within the scope of a Certified Nurse Midwife utilizing the established Clinical Practice Guidelines within the practice.
- Takes 24-hour call shifts in rotation with other midwives in practice covering laboring patients at the birth center and at transferring hospital, as needed.
- Assists in developing, implementing and maintaining compliance with policies and procedures for the midwifery practice as needed and requested.
- Maintains compliance with ACNM, AABC and all state and federal laws and regulations.
- Assists with maintaining appropriate systems to assure quality patient care such as participation emergency skills drills and in-services; participates and utilizes quality management principles through weekly chart review
- Contributes to maintaining productive and positive working relationships with staff at WBWC, consulting physicians and with health care facilities and agencies
- Serve as a resource to the clinic staff by participating in and providing contemporary in-service education that will facilitate in increasing teamwork and maintaining a comprehensive approach to the delivery of health care
- Serve as a consultant to outside agencies as assigned regarding nurse midwifery practice.
- Participates in selected local, state and national organizations that affect nurse midwifery practice (ACNM, NC ACNM, and AABC)
- Participates in activities designed to enhance public awareness of Women’s Birth & Wellness Center services
- Participates as part of a professional team by performing any other duties as assigned or needed