Description
The Certified Nurse Midwife will provide comprehensive women’s health services to include prenatal care, intrapartum management, deliveries, postpartum care, well-women visits and gynecological care. Experience is preferred but we will consider new graduates.
Essential Duties
- Work closely with other providers to provide full scope care to the gynecologic, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patient.
- Provide care in the outpatient clinic, OB ED, and intrapartum unit.
- Participate in initial examination of obstetrical patient, and assume responsibility for care, treatment, and delivery of patients
Requirements
Required Experience
- Ability to work in an automated environment required
Preferred Experience
- Labor and delivery experience preferred.
Required Licensure/Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in a health care related field (Master's preferred)
- Certified Illinois Nurse Midwife License
- Successful completion of a Nurse Midwifery program provided by the American College of Nurse Midwives
- Evidence of annual completion of health-related courses and/or seminars with a certificate and/or CEU
Employee Health Requirements
Exposure/Sensory Requirements:
Exposure To
- Chemicals: Podophyllin, alcohol, KOH, acetic acid, normal saline.
- Video Display Terminals: Average
- Blood and Body Fluids: Performing physical exams - may come in contact with vaginal discharge, blood, urine, respiratory secretions. Performs venipuncture - exposure to blood, but the use of universal precautions and protection reduces risk.
- TB or Airborne Pathogens: Minimal - if a patient is infected, it is possible that the health care worker would be exposed, but it is greatly diminished by adherence to universal precautions.
Sensory Requirements (speech, Vision, Smell, Hearing, Touch)
- Speech: Needed for presentations/training, telephone communication, facilitate meetings.
- Vision: Needed to read memos and literature.
- Smell: Needed to assess type of discharge.
- Hearing: Needed for telephone communications, meetings, and listening to employee and patient concerns.
- Touch: Needed to write, do computer entry, filing.
Activity/Lifting Requirements
Percentage of time during the normal workday the employee is required to:
- Sit: 25%
- Twist: 15%
- Stand: 40%
- Crawl: 0%
- Walk: 15%
- Kneel: 0%
- Lift: 1%
- Drive: 0%
- Squat: 0%
- Climb: 0%
- Bend: 3%
- Reach above shoulders: 1%
The weight required to be lifted each normal workday according to the continuum described below:
- Up to 10 lbs: Frequently
- Up to 20 lbs: Frequently
- Up to 35 lbs: Occasionally
- Up to 60 lbs: Occasionally
- Up to 75 lbs: Occasionally
- Up to 100 lbs: Not Required
- Over 100 lbs: Not Required
Describe and explain the lifting and carrying requirements. (Example: the distance material is carried; how high material is lifted, etc.): Carry specimen from exam room to lab area. Carry the fetal doppler in and out of exam rooms. Material is not lifted higher than waist level.
Maximum consecutive time (minutes) during the normal workday for each activity:
- Sit: 5
- Twist: 5
- Stand: 5
- Crawl: 0
- Walk: 1
- Kneel: 0
- Lift: 1
- Drive: 0
- Squat: 0
- Climb: 0
- Bend: 2
- Reach above shoulders: 1
Repetitive Use Of Hands (Frequency Indicated)
- Simple grasp up to 15 lbs.
- Normal weight: continuous
- Pushing & pulling Normal weight: 50-200#
- Fine Manipulation: Writing, keyboarding, calculator, must manipulate the speculum and specimen collection tools, and put slides in microscope.
Repetitive use of foot or feet in operating machine control: Not Required
Environmental Factors & Special Hazards
- Environmental Factors (Time Spent):
- Inside hours: 8
- Outside hours : 0
- Temperature: Normal Range
- Lighting: Average
- Noise levels: Average
- Humidity: Normal Range
- Atmosphere: Odors
- Special Hazards: Chemical - Podophyllis. Potential for contact with infectious blood and body fluids.
- Protective Clothing Required: Lab coats, gloves, safety glasses.
