Certified Nurse Midwife, Per Diem

Kaiser Permanente; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente seeks an experienced Certified Nurse-Midwife to provide comprehensive maternity care across antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and gynecologic periods in California. The role includes obstetric assessment, fetal monitoring, and coordination with obstetricians and other services.

Responsibilities include managing labor/delivery, providing patient counseling, and ensuring adherence to state nurse practice acts and KP protocols.

Qualifications

• Experience as CNM is preferred and risky licensing requirements must be met within 12 months.
• RN and nurse-midwife education required with formal certification.
• MS degree is required per stated qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Oversee care of women during labor and delivery under physician supervision.
• Obtain comprehensive obstetric-gynecologic history and assess health status.
• Perform physical exams including pelvic, breast, and abdominal assessments.
• Monitor fetal status and interpret fetal heart rate and ultrasound findings.
• Provide counseling and education to patients and families.

Skills

CNM experience

Inpatient experience

obstetric care

Education

RN degree

Nurse midwifery program

MS degree

Job description

Job Summary

Under the supervision of an Ob-Gyn Physician, manages the medical care of patients throughout the maternity cycle, including the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and gynecological periods. Provides standard maternity care and counseling to expectant women following ambulatory care and inpatient standardized procedures, protocols, policy and procedures and instructions regulated by the State of California Nurse Practice Act and Southern California Permanente Medical Group.

Essential Responsibilities

• Under the supervision of an Ob-Gyn physician, manages the care of women during labor and delivery.
• Obtains an accurate medical, obstetrical, gynecological and psycho-social history of the present pregnancy.
• Observes signs of the members general and obstetrical health status.
• Performs complete physical examinations including the pap smear, breast examination, abdominal examination, pelvic examination and clinical pelvimetry.
• Records all findings of examinations, histories and significant observations in the patients chart.
• Determines pregnancy status during gestation, presentation and position of fetus and fetal heart rate.
• Determines whether all findings are within normal limits.
• Orders appropriate laboratory examinations such as chest X-ray, ultrasound, CBC, urinalysis, blood type and Rh factor, serology tests.
• Consults with and obtains orders from an obstetrician for any special care or diagnostic procedure and refers to other services as necessary.
• Institutes preventative measures and detects abnormal conditions, obtains consultation and assistance from physicians as needed.
• Teaches, counsels and guides individual members regarding their individual health care.
• Determines the need for social services, genetics or mental health services and refers as appropriate.
• Evaluates patients general and obstetrical health status.
• Provides health supervision, care and family planning advice to women during antepartum and postpartum periods.
• Evaluates fetal status by performing such procedures as abdominal palpation and ultrasound examinations to estimate fetal weight, presentation and position, approximate station and fetal heart rate.
• Able to perform internal and external fetal monitoring and interpretation.
• Consults with obstetrician regarding questionable findings.
• Determines members degree of labor and whether member is to be admitted to labor and delivery.
• Independently conducts normal spontaneous vaginal deliveries.
• First assists at Cesarean Sections and gynecological surgeries.
• Performs immediate care of the newborn.

Basic Qualifications

Experience

• If the department elects to hire a new grad CNM, the California Furnishing Number and, if applicable, DEA Registration Number must be obtained within twelve (12) months of hire.

Education

• Graduate of an accredited RN program.
• Graduate of a nurse midwifery program accredited by the A.C.N.M. BS or BSN or BA required.
• MS Degree required in 2010.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Nurse License (California)
• Certified Nurse Midwife (California)
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program
• National Provider Identifier
• Nurse Midwife National Certification from American Midwifery Certification Board

Additional Requirements

• N/A.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years recent experience as a CNM preferred.
• 2 years of Inpatient experience

Notes:

• work 16 hr and 24 hr shift