Nurse Midwife - UPMC Divine Mercy Women's Health

UPMC Pinnacle Medical Services is hiring a Full-Time Nurse Midwife to join their team at UPMC Divine Mercy Women's Health! This position will primarily located in Camp Hill with regular travel to the other offices in Carlisle and other Central PA birthing hospitals.

Hours: Monday through Sunday shifts. Rotating weekends and holidays. On call required, 12 or 24 hour shifts.


Location: This position will support several offices based on staff and patient needs. Locations will include UPMC Divine Mercy, UPMC Carlisle, and other Central PA birth hospitals and sites.

Position Specifics: Obstetrics and Gynecology - Preferred Midwifery experience, preferred women's health nursing/labor suite experience.


Department Details: This is a faith-based practice with many learning opportunities for CME locally and through the University of Pittsburgh. Our CNMs have committees for policies, quality, education and mentoring. Our midwives also are career ladder eligible!

See what being an Advanced Practice Provider can do for UPMC and what UPMC can do for Advanced Practice Providers - it's more than just a job!


What Can You Bring to UPMC?

• Contribute to UPMC's mission of Life Changing Medicine
• Set the standards for the level and quality of care for the care delivery team
• Provide patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through the application of independent judgment, communication, and collaboration with all team members.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients, and their families, to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care.
• Demonstrate a commitment to the community and to your health care profession

What Can UPMC Do for You?

• A career path that provides you with the right experience to be successful in the position you want to obtain now and, in the future
• Health and welfare benefits like medical, vision, dental, and life and disability, and an exceptional retirement program
• Work life balance to help manage other important aspects of your life such as: PTO, wellness programs, paid parental leave
• Competitive pay for the work that you do - base pay, merit, and premium pay
• Sign-on Bonus available if applicable

Purpose:
Provides comprehensive primary health care to a select population of essentially healthy women. Participates in the care of women with medical complications in collaboration with obstetricians/gynecologists.


Responsibilities:

• Perform accurate history and physical examinations on essentially healthy women, order and interpret diagnostic tests, diagnose problems, and manage minor problems and illnesses.
• Provide primary care in an ambulatory setting to women: preconception care, prenatal care, labor and delivery management, postpartum care, normal newborn care, well-woman gynecology, family planning, counseling in health promotion, maintenance and disease prevention.
• Participate in research and continuing education activities.
• Instruct and supervise nursing and medical personnel.
• Follow the mandatory reporting procedures for any incident or serious event that did affect or potentially could have affected the clinical care of any patient.
• Identify deviations from normal and consults, co-manages or refers as appropriate.
• Provide individualized educational opportunities for students including mentoring, supervision and evaluation.
• Provide individualized client teaching and counseling utilizing the nurse midwifery philosophy.

Qualifications:

Completion of an accredited school of nurse midwifery required. Bachelor's degree required.


Considerable degree of independent judgment to monitor and respond to changes in a client's condition. Interpersonal skills to work effectively with clients, families and all members of the healthcare team. Oral and written skills necessary to communicate effectively with patients, physicians and members of the healthcare community.


Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Midwife
• Registered Nurse (RN)

*Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.


UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran