Job Details
The Certified Nurse-Midwife serves as a member within the General Division in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The CNM is responsible for full-scope midwifery care. The CNM provides independent clinical management of essentially healthy people, including: routine office well gynecologic care, management of minor gynecologic issues, antepartum/intrapartum/postpartum care, and immediate care of the newborn. The CNM will work in the hospital, office-based, and health center care settings as a member of a collaborative care team. The care team consists of OB/GYNs, CNMs, NPs, RNs, social workers, medical assistants, nutritionists.
Job Description
- Provides well person gynecologic care, treatment of minor gynecologic conditions, family planning care, STI diagnosis/treatment, and antepartum/postpartum care in the office-based setting. These offices include: 833 Chestnut Street and Wolf Street
- Provides antepartum/postpartum care in Philadelphia Department of Public Health Centers.
- Provides intrapartum/immediate postpartum care to clients Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The CNM would independently care for people with essentially normal labor and spontaneous vaginal deliveries, precept and teach residents and medical/midwifery/PA students, participate in postpartum rounds, and provide telephone triage coverage.
- Typical work schedule would include two 8-hour office/health center days and one to two 12- hour hospital shifts in a seven-day period. Weekend coverage is rotated.
- Care is provided in a collaborative, team-based approach. The need for consultation, collaboration, and/or referral is based on jointly developed practice guidelines to optimize the physical, social, and emotional needs of our clientele.
- Will participate in various Department, University, and Hospital committees; attend meetings within the Division, and other divisions at the discretion of the Division Director
- Provide didactic lectures and simulation-based training for residents and medical/midwifery/nursing students
Education/Certifications
Master in Nursing degree, completion of an ACME accredited graduate program, passing score on the AMCB certification exam.
Certification by the AMCB, Pennsylvania RN license, Pennsylvania CNM license. Must meet requirements for Pennsylvania Nurse-Midwife Prescriptive Authority license and US DEA registration.
Experience Requirements:
Minimum of 2 years of experience is required.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Strong observational skills and attention to detail.
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Jefferson University Physicians
Primary Location Address
833 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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