Midwife
Full Time
Brockton, MA 02301
$120,000 - $138,675 a year
Posted
Job description
BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER
POSITION DESCRIPTION
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Certified Nurse-Midwife
$120,000 - $138,675
Supervisor: Lead Certified Midwife
POSITION SUMMARY:
Provides comprehensive care of adolescent and adult women in the area of reproductive health, focusing on pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and the family planning and gynecological needs of women. The certified nurse-midwife practices within a health care system that provides for consultation, collaborative management or referral as indicated by the health status of the client. In conjunction with the health center’s OBGYN physicians and Assistant Medical Director, develops clinical protocols for nurse-midwifery practice.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Professional Responsibilities
- Provides direct patient care services within area of expertise. Assess, plans, documents and evaluates patient needs and treatments. Ensures proper follow up.
- Care provided by nurse-midwife incorporates all of the essential factors of primary care and case management that include evaluation, assessment, treatment and referral as required. The model of health care practiced by nurse-midwife focuses on the ambulatory care of women and emphasizes health promotion, education and disease prevention.
- Conducts comprehensive outpatient care including prenatal and postpartum care, family planning services, routine gynecological exams and gynecological care of women with minor acute problems within the confines of the health center’s objective and policies in collaboration with gynecologist/obstetrician.
- Has practice privileges and attends deliveries at local community hospital. All certified nurse-midwives have a current, signed clinical practice agreement for medical consultation, collaborative management, or referral with an active Medical Staff member of Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center who is board certified and has full obstetrical privileges.
- Must be available for attending deliveries, in-patient admissions, and telephone triage based on negotiated schedule with collaborating physician.
- Organizes and conducts routine chart review and case management discussions with collaborating physician of all obstetrical clients.
- Manages the care of women with normal pregnancies during preconception, prenatal, childbearing and postpartum period. Manage diagnostic and therapeutic regimens for minor acute and chronic gynecological illness and seeks consultation when appropriate. Co-manages high-risk pregnancies and pregnancies with complications with consultant obstetrician and perinatologist.
- Initiates follow-up and specialty referrals for those clients needing further work-up and/or monitoring of a current situation.
- Provides assessment, education and management of comprehensive family planning care including contraception, natural family planning, and pregnancy testing.
- Educates patients so that they develop an understanding of the importance of following prescribed therapeutic regimens during pregnancy and postnatal period.
- Coordinates the referrals to early pregnancy classes, childbirth classes, breastfeeding and parenting classes.
- Collaborates in the development and revision of department policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Participates in discussion with other clinical and administrative staff around the development of goals, objectives and plans the resolution of problems in the perinatal health services.
MINIMUM SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS:
Current Massachusetts licensure for R.N. in expanded role. Certification eligible as Certified Nurse-Midwife. Federal and State licensure for prescriptive writing privileges.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Works in busy community health center in downtown business district. Long hours frequently required. Must be available some evenings and weekends, with short notice, to represent the interests of the health center. Hospital call required.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Physical demands require lifting small pieces of equipment, patients, and/or boxes not to exceed 50 pounds. Mostly standing and walking required. Visual acuity sufficient for frequent reading. Hearing acuity sufficient for holding conversation with and/or without assistive audio devices.
BNHC is committed to providing a safe and heathy environment for patients and staff. As a condition of employment, employees, to include new hires, are required to be fully vaccinated to include the most recent COVID 19 booster and annual flu vaccines, with the exception of those who have documented medical or religious exemptions, that must be approved by BNHC according to its protocols. Additional vaccines may be required based on the recommendation of the CDC. New hires who are not yet vaccinated for flu or COVID can arrange to be vaccinated on site.
About us: BNHC is a multicultural organization that collaborates with community agencies and residents to provide high quality comprehensive health care. We are committed to health promotion and disease prevention. BNHC began providing services in 1994 in a mobile medical van operating out of a church parking lot. Since then, the center has rapidly grown to provide desperately needed services to low-income and marginalized populations in the greater Brockton area. BNHC is committed to providing care that is responsive to community health needs and is linguistically, culturally and financially accessible. BNHC serves an extremely diverse patient population including Brazilian, Cape Verdean, Haitian, Latino, Portuguese, African American and Caucasian, 77% of whom live in poverty.
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