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Provides a full range of direct and collaborative obstetrical and gynecological health care services for women in a variety of clinical settings. Utilizes advanced clinical knowledge and expertise to provide ongoing physical and emotional care, support, education, and counseling to women and their families transitioning throughout the childbearing cycle inclusive of, family planning services, preconception care, care during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum period, as well as care to normal newborns during the first 28 days of life.
Job Responsibility
- Conducts complete history and physical examinations/health assessments of patients and families with real or potential, acute, and/or chronic health problems in the outpatient setting.
- Provides referrals to other health professionals and community agencies, as needed.
- Initiates selected therapeutic and diagnostic procedures (including non-stress testing and biophysical profiles), consultation, and laboratory examinations, as needed.
- Provides maximum continuity of care for patients and families transitioning throughout the phases of antepartal, labor, delivery, post-partal, family planning-intercontraceptional care periods.
- Responsible for the management of the medically uncomplicated and low-risk patient throughout the maternity cycle.
- Follows progress of pregnancy in the office and labor of all patients in labor and delivery suite within the scope of midwifery practice.
- May assume management of labor and delivery of the medically, uncomplicated low risk patient, including management of frequently encountered problems with medically approved orders mutually agreed upon by both physician and midwife.
- Makes daily rounds on routine postpartum floors independently.
- Examines patients.
- Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.
Job Qualification
- Bachelor's Degree from accredited college/ university with successful completion of specific science courses AND Master's Degree in Midwifery from an accredited midwifery educational program, required.
- Current license to practice as a Midwife in the State of New York, required.
- American Midwifery Board Certification, required.
- Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification, required.
- Has a collaborative practice agreement with a physician and designated protocols, both filed with New York State Department of Education.
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
Phelps Hospital is a 238-bed acute-care community hospital located on 69 acres of land overlooking the Hudson River. Phelps provides emergency, inpatient and outpatient medical and mental health services for residents of Westchester County, and beyond receiving 4-STAR Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rating for 2019. Phelps is recognized for excellence in urology, GI and hyperbaric medicine and has been at the forefront of the latest orthopedic procedures for hip and knee replacement and complex spine surgery. The department of radiology has been designated a Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology. In recent years, major improvements have included a new emergency department, a state-of-the-art surgery center and a new MRI Center.
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