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Nurse Midwife (DH3659) 

About the Organization Thank you for your interest in exploring the professionally rewarding and personally fulfilling benefits with Tuba City Regional Health Care Corp. We look forward to continuing our discussion about the opportunity and purpose health professionals experience as valued members of TCRHCC team.

A TCRHCC career offers a chance to live and work within or near Native communities, providing clinicians/nurses/administrators with a unique opportunity to learn the heritage of the tribes we serve, discover traditions that have been carried down for generations and gain cultural insight into the beliefs and values of a deserving and appreciative patient population.
 
Description

POSITION SUMMARY

Full scope group nurse-midwifery practice – gynecology (including contraception and menopause), antepartum, intrapartum, post-partum, initial newborn. Rotating schedule between clinic and the hospital. Collaborates with obstetrician/gynecologists and other providers, co-manages and/or refers as appropriate. Admits patients. Performs complete history and physical examinations on adults, teens, and newborns. Determines dosage and timing of medications, orders and/or administers medications. Utilizes fetal monitoring equipment including application of fetal scalp electrodes, IUPCs, and/or amnioinfusion, and interprets the meaning of the information recorded. Determines the content, orders and/or administers intravenous solutions and medications and performs other specialized procedures. First-Assistant in Cesarean Sections. Performs limited ultrasound. Represents midwives and/or the OB Department on various hospital committees. Accepts responsibility for departmental administrative projects. Performs other functions generally accepted as typical of a Certified Nurse-Midwife, as requested. Nightshift, Holiday, and weekend rotation on the Labor & Delivery Unit are essential.

Essential Functions

  1. Conducts spontaneous vaginal delivery without the use of forceps or vacuum.
  2. Determines methods and administers anesthesia such as local blocks and arranges intrathecal analgesia and epidural anesthesia as indicated.
  3. Performs episiotomy and does repair of episiotomy and/or lacerations, records the delivery in permanent record book or computer, and signs the completed birth certificate.
  4. Determines the need for ultrasound, non-stress tests, oxytocin challenge tests, interprets the results of the tests, and uses the results to plan and carry out a course of treatment.
  5. Manages the care of patients during the postpartum period.
  6. Provides family planning education/services, and gynecological services, to women (including teens).
  7. Assumes responsibility for the triage of common health problems presented by women (including teens) and for management, collaboration, co-management and/or referral to appropriate levels of health care services.
  8. Prescribes the full range of contraception including, but not limited to, birth control pills, emergency contraception/ “morning-after pills,” inserts intrauterine contraceptive devices and contraceptive implants, fits diaphragms, does pelvic examinations and Pap tests.
  9. Treats hemorrhage and shock.
  10. Collaborates in planning, and participates in, educational programs for patients, family, staff and community.
  11. Must be able to work a rotating full-time schedule, including nights, weekends and Holidays.
  12. Must be able to perform well in crisis situations.

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EFFORT

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical: The work requires prolonged standing, walking, lifting of patients, irregular shifts, and overtime hours. Round-the-clock coverage of patient care may cause physical and emotional stress unique to the role. The Incumbent must be able to frequently stand, walk, bend, kneel, crouch, twist, and maintain balance. Must be able to occasionally sit, drive, climb and reach. Incumbent will need to be able to push, pull, and lift up to 50 pounds. Must have the ability for prolonged color, seeing fine details, and hearing normal speech. Must also have ability to frequently have near vision, far vision, depth perception, telephone use, and hearing overhead pages over a loudspeaker. Hand manipulation ability with simple/firm grasping, fine manipulation, and use of keyboards. May be exposed frequently to infectious disease and loud noises; occasionally to chemical agents, dust, fumes, gases, extremes in temperature or humidity, hazardous or moving equipment, and unprotected heights. Noted other requirements prolonged times of need to accepts flexible schedule to meet unit needs.

Mental: Must be able to perform well in crisis situations. Must be able to work well within a group. Incumbent must have the prolonged ability to cope with high level of stress, make decisions under high pressure, concentrate, handle high degree of flexibility, handle multiple priorities in a stressful situation, work alone, demonstrate high degree of patience, adapt to shift work. Frequently be able to cope with anger/fear/hostility of others in a calm way and working areas that are close and crowded.

 
Position Requirements

NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

  • A Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited school of nursing

License/Certification:

  • Certified Nurse-Midwives must be Registered Nurses, hold current certification by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) and must have graduated from a nurse-midwifery education program accredited by the ACNM Accreditation for Midwifery Education (ACME.
  • Must possess and maintain a valid, current, full and unrestricted license to practice as a nurse in any state within the United States, District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
  • Certified Nurse-Midwives must be certificated by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) or the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) (formerly known as ACNM Certification Council, Inc.) and have graduated from a post-baccalaureate midwifery education program which is accredited by the ACNM Division of Accreditation. A Master's degree with a major in Midwifery or Public Health is strongly recommended.

Experience:

  • One year of experience as a full-scope Certified Nurse-Midwife with hospital-based birthing including high-risk pregnancy. Experience as First Assistant at C-section.

Credentialing:

Must be credentialed to serve on the Medical Staff (provide all related information as requested and needed for credentialing process).

Other Skills and Abilities:

A record of satisfactory performance in all prior and current employment as evidenced by positive employment references from previous and current employers. All employment references must address and indicate success in each one of the following areas:

  • Must be proficient with basic computer skills, including word-processing and e-mail.
  • Positive working relationships with others
  • Possession of high ethical standards and no history of complaints
  • Reliable and dependable; reports to work as scheduled without excessive absences.
 
Close Date 3/26/2022  
Exempt/Non-Exempt Exempt  
Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time  
Location Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation  
Navajo/Indian Preference Applicants who are enrolled members of the Navajo Nation and who meet the necessary qualifications for this position will be given preference in hiring and employment for this position.  
Open Date 10/8/2021  

This position is currently not accepting applications.

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