Midwife

NYC Health + Hospitals; Hempfield Township (Westmoreland County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NYC Health + Hospitals' Queens Hospital Center is seeking a licensed midwife to provide antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, neonatal, and gynecologic care within standardized protocols.

Under supervision of the OB/GYN division, you will deliver comprehensive care, educate families, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality outcomes in a busy urban hospital.

Qualifications

• Licensure as a Midwife by the New York State Education Department.
• Experience providing antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care is preferred.
• Ability to follow written midwifery protocols approved by the Medical Board.

Responsibilities

• Plans and provides health care for women and newborns.
• Builds a complete patient history and exam data.
• Assesses patient status and creates a care plan across prenatal to gynecologic periods.
• Educates patients and families on health maintenance, admission, discharge, and labor.
• Manages labor and delivery and performs required procedures.
• Provides newborn care and postpartum follow-up.
• Seeks medical consultation for deviations from standards.
• Documents care in the medical record.
• Gives contraceptive guidance and gynecologic care.

Skills

Prenatal care

Labor & delivery support

Postpartum care

Neonatal care

Patient education

Education

Licensure as a Midwife (NY)

Job description

Marketing Statement

Queens Hospital Center is making good on its promise to the people of southeastern and central Queens to maximize both patient convenience and positive clinical outcomes. Residents of Queens can count on the delivery of quality medical care right in their own borough. In 2002 the hospital opened a state-of-the-art, 261-bed facility that includes the Queens Cancer Center, the first comprehensive cancer treatment center in the borough.

Marketing Statement

Queens Hospital Center is making good on its promise to the people of southeastern and central Queens to maximize both patient convenience and positive clinical outcomes. Residents of Queens can count on the delivery of quality medical care right in their own borough. In 2002 the hospital opened a state-of-the-art, 261-bed facility that includes the Queens Cancer Center, the first comprehensive cancer treatment center in the borough. At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose of Position

Under the supervision of Midwifery Services and direction of the OB/GYN Division, provides antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, neonatal, interconceptional and gynecological care in accordance with written midwifery protocols which have been approved by the Institution’s Medical Board.

Examples Of Typical Tasks

• Plans and provides health care for women and newborn infants.
• Establishes a complete database concerning the patient through history taking,

physical examination and appropriate laboratory data.

• Assesses the status of the patient, develops and implements a plan of care with the patient during the prenatal, intrapartial, postpartal, neonatal and interconceptional/gynecological periods.
• Provides guidance and education for patients and families concerning health maintenance, admission and discharge, and labor management (including physical and emotional support).
• Manages labor, including delivery of the newborn, utilizes medication and performs procedures.
• Provides immediate and follow-up care of the newborn infant, including an ongoing assessment and follow-up with the postpartum family.
• Seeks medical consultation for patients with deviations from standards/guidelines.
• Performs ongoing review of care, including evaluation and documentation in the medical record.
• Provides contraceptive guidance and evaluation and treatment for minor gynecological conditions.

Minimum Qualifications

Licensure as a Midwife by the New York State Department of Education.