Certified Nurse Midwife Hospitalist - Columbia

Prisma Health - Columbia, SC

Full-time

Columbia, SC

Hospitals

About the position

Provides comprehensive primary care services independently to essentially healthy women in accordance with approved and recognized standards for midwifery practice according to the Standards for the Practice of Midwifery developed by the American College of Nurse-Midwives and within the clinical guidelines for midwifery practice developed by Prisma Health and the Department of OB/GYN. This care is provided in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. Provides care to women with selected medical complications in collaboration with Obstetricians-Gynecologists according to established clinical practice guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive clinical care services independently to essentially healthy women during the antepartum and postpartum periods.
• Evaluates patients, performing complete history and physical examinations and develops a treatment plan for pregnancy and birth.
• Orders and interprets appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests as indicated according to patient's condition and develops appropriate treatment plan.
• Performs selected diagnostic testing on obstetrical patients as indicated by maternal/fetal condition.
• Evaluates and manages care of mothers and newborns during immediate postpartum period.
• Assists and supports mothers during breastfeeding according to principles of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.
• Diagnoses labor and admits and discharges low risk obstetrical patients to intrapartum, antepartum and postpartum obstetrical units.
• Develops treatment plan for triage, labor, birth and postpartum management.
• Provides continuous labor support throughout active labor, including physical, emotional and psychological support for the laboring woman.
• Independently manages normal labor and birth. Performs uncomplicated vaginal deliveries.
• Recognizes deviations from normal and provides care in collaboration with physicians to develop a treatment plan for patients with selected complications of labor and postpartum.
• Performs complete history and physical exams on essentially healthy women from adolescence through menopause.
• Develops treatment plan for well-woman gynecological patient, including contraceptive management, pre-conception care, initial infertility evaluation, peri-menopause and treatment of common gynecological disorders and complaints.
• Participates in development of patient education materials and programs.
• Completes necessary documentation/dictation related to clinical care according to policies and procedures of medical records department.
• Participates in community outreach activities, formal client education programs and marketing and practice promotion activities according to the goals of the midwifery service.
• Participates in operational assessments in search of revenue enhancement, expense reductions, consolidation efficiencies and billing opportunities.
• Directs other staff in patient care activities.
• Participates in research and continuing education activities.

Requirements

• Master's degree from a Midwifery education program accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME).
• 2 years full-scope midwifery practice.
• South Carolina Official Recognition Nurse Practitioner - NLNP.
• Certification from the National Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education - ACME.
• South Carolina Prescriptive Authority, South Carolina Controlled Substance license; Federal DEA license.

Nice-to-haves

• Limited 3rd trimester ultrasound and 1st trimester viability preferred.
• Experience, participation in Centering Pregnancy program preferred.
• In-hospital alternative birthing suite or free-standing birth center preferred.
• Basic computer skills.
• Proficient computer skills (database).
• Data entry.
• Patient equipment (vitals, suction, defib).