Certified Nurse Midwife - Highland Hospital - Oakland, CA.
Company: Alameda Health System
Location: Oakland
Posted on: April 28, 2025
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Job Description:
Summary Highland Hospital, located in Oakland, California, is
the largest facility of Alameda Health System which serves a
diverse patient population in California's East Bay Area. -As a
provider of care to all patients, we provide high quality,
accessible care to our community's most vulnerable patients. -We
are currently recruiting for a Services As Needed (SAN)/Per Diem
-Certified Nurse-Midwife to join our team. This full scope
nurse-midwife position will be responsible for providing outpatient
care in our clinics in Oakland, Hayward and Newark as well as
working inpatient shifts on Labor & Delivery at Highland Hospital.
Shifts are variable and include days, nights, weekdays, weekends,
and holidays. This position will also require experience with the
Centering Pregnancy model of prenatal care. If you are interested
in this opportunity, we encourage you to apply!SUMMARY: -Midwifery
as practiced by certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) encompasses the
independent provision of care during -pregnancy, childbirth, and
the postpartum period; sexual and reproductive health; gynecologic
health; and family planning -services, including preconception
care. Midwives also provide primary care for individuals from
adolescence throughout the lifespan as well as care for the healthy
newborn during the first 28 days of life. Provides related duties
as required. In the context of providing midwifery care, the
midwife may need to consult, collaborate, and /or refer to other
members of the health care team.DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
NOTE: The following are the duties performed by employees in this
classification. However, employees may perform other related duties
at an equivalent level. Not all duties listed are necessarily
performed by each individual in the classification. 1. Determines
status of labor; assesses, confirms and manages premature rupture
of membranes; determines the need for amniotomy, IUPC insertion,
fetal scalp electrode application, catherization IV fluid
administration, episiotomy, medication, etc.; determines the need
for the presence of attending physician and/or nurse anesthetist;
initiates and manages IV oxytocin induction or stimulation of labor
after consultation with attending physician; orders appropriate
vital signs and fetal heart rate monitoring; assesses uterine
contractions/bleeding; injects local anesthesia for episiotomy and
repair as indicated; performs episiotomy as indicated; repairs
episiotomy, 1st and 2nd degree lacerations, as indicated; examines
placental membranes and cord vessels and reports abnormal
findings.2. -Performs initial assessment of newborn status; assists
in promoting establishment of airway and maintenance of body
temperature; begins resuscitation efforts in the absence of
physician. -3. Performs physical examinations including heart and
lung, fundal height, fetal heart rates and Leopold's maneuvers;
performs vaginal exams, breast exams, clinical pelvimetry and
general health status exams; determines presence or absence or
abnormalities; consults and/or refers complications to a physician.
-4. -Provides telephone consultation/referrals to any patient
phoning Labor and Delivery with concerns or questions; participates
in patient education programs and community education. -5. Takes
patients' medical, social, and obstetric history; provides prenatal
care to patients ; orders medications per obstetric nurse-midwife
protocols; documents in patients' medical records all care
rendered; does chart review and follow- up care. -6. -Writes
H&P and admission orders; orders and/or performs approved
laboratory examinations; supports patients during labor and teaches
relaxation and breathing techniques as needed; encourages and
teaches support persons to actively assist the laboring woman;
independently manages and delivers low-risk patients; assumes co-
management of high risk women when appropriate; delivers patients
followed by a physician when attending in surgery; informs patient
and their family of progress and involves them in any treatment,
decision or plan; acts as a consultant to house staff and manages
all patients in Labor and Delivery when attending MD is in surgery
or attending other duties; manages complications and emergencies
until physician arrives.7. Determines appropriateness of discharge;
writes postpartum orders as indicated; manages postpartum care
(physical/emotional assessment, educational assessment); assesses
need for referrals; signs birth certificate.Any combination of
education and experience that would likely provide the required
knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any
required licenses or certifications is qualifying.MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS: Education:
Keywords: Alameda Health System, Ceres , Certified Nurse Midwife - Highland Hospital - Oakland, CA., Healthcare , Oakland, California
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