Hours
Shift Start Time:
8 AMShift End Time:
4:30 PMAdditional Shift Information:
Weekend Requirements:
No WeekendsOn-Call Required:
NoHourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):
$71.822 - $92.673 - $113.525The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.
What You Will Do
Initiate a full-scope collaborative midwifery program. Duties to include the maintenance, guidance, and supervision of the program, as well as independently provide full scope midwifery care to childbearing women utilizing the basic philosophical tenets of midwife-led care.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Other Qualification Requirements
Essential Functions
Completion of safety modules by established target date.
Initiates and/or participates in one or more safety related promotional or educational activities.
No reports of compromised outcomes or failure to meet the intent of commonly accepted practice.Communication and teamwork
Employee will consistently communicate in a positive and timely manner with patients, visitors, staff members, and physicians; handling problems in a professional and proactive manner; demonstrate teamwork, cooperation and responsiveness. Measurement may include (but may not be limited to) feedback from: collaborating/consulting physician, the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Director of Women and Infant Services, co-workers and patients.
Employee exhibits effective communication strategies in an effort to create positive first impressions with individuals as well as groups of patients, family, significant-others, and members of the Healthcare team. Employee demonstrates customer service by conducting self on the job in a professional manner, extending courtesy, consideration and cooperation to patients, visitors and other employees.
Ensures positive activities/interactions with other departments and coworkers by providing appropriate, adequate and accurate information. Listens to ideas, thoughts and feelings of others and responds with appropriate information to ensure customer satisfaction.
Identifies patient and department relation problems and utilizes professional steps of problem solving to resolve identified issues. Focuses on problem resolution priorities and makes recommendations to resolve.
Demonstrates teamwork, cooperation, and responsiveness; Assists other health care workers with completion of work responsibilities. Perceived by other health care workers as approachable in participating (e.g. assisting, guiding and taking initiative) in the completion of duties.Outcome measurements
Participates in processes to improve clinic outcomes, patient satisfaction and clinic efficiency. Measurement may include (but may not be limited to) feedback from: the collaborating/consulting physician, the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Director of Women and Infant Services, co-workers and patients.
Reviews policies and procedures and revises guidelines of care as needed. Presents high-risk cases to consulting/collaborating physician as needed for review for plan of care (prospective). Reviews selected charts with consulting/collaborating physician for quality review (retrospective).
Preceptor
Provides individual and/or group experiences to various health professional students in the clinic/hospital setting by acting as preceptor. Measurement may include (but may not be limited to) feedback from: the collaborating/consulting physician, the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Director of Women and Infant Services, Community Clinic Directors, co-workers and patients. Participates in and provides a minimum of two in-service programs.Clinical Practice
Provides full scope midwifery care in the outpatient and inpatient settings to include but not limited to primary care, ante-partum, intra-partum (including deliveries), postpartum and family planning. Measurement may include (but may not be limited to) trended quality report data, direct patient information and feedback from the collaborating/consulting physician, Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, and the Director of Women and Infant Services. Assumes responsibility for implementation and direction on referrals/ consultation. Coordinate patient care between medical and educational components as needed.Training and education
Attend and participate in CPSP / PNC / APCC / OB Steering / OB Supervisory and Community Clinic meetings to facilitate coordination of care between the medical and education components.
Assist in development of full scope midwifery service / continuance of programs within Grossmont Hospital for Women and Newborns.
Participates in continuing education /continuing competency programs.
Participates in professional organization(s).
Provide community education services as necessary.
Participates in community organization as representative of hospital.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.
Master's Degree in Nursing; Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - Various-Employee provides certificate; AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association; California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing; California Nurse Midwife Furnishing Number (NMF) - CA Board of Registered Nursing; National Provider Identifier (NPI) - U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) - American Midwifery Certification Board, Inc. (AMCB); DEA Controlled Substance Registration - U.S. Department of Justice; California Nurse-Midwife Certificate - CA Board of Registered Nursing