Certified Nurse Midwife - Mary Washington OBGYN Embry Mill

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Provides inpatient and outpatient obstetrical care throughout the entire pregnancy to include collaborative management and delivery of laboring patients, and OB emergency care
• Provides gynecologic care to include wellness screening, performance of comprehensive health assessments, and the performance of in-office procedures to include placement of IUDs, colposcopy, endometrial biopsy
• Arranges inpatient admissions, transfers, and discharges in accordance with established guidelines and standards developed within the collaborative practice.
• Performs inpatient rounds and records appropriate notes, compiles detailed narrative and case summaries and complete forms pertinent to patients’ medical records 
• Provides pregnancy care by managing low risk pregnancies and identify and participate in collaborative care of high-risk pregnancies.  
• Provides support during labor and childbirth, postpartum, intrapartum, and antepartum care in the hospital and or outpatient setting.  
• Perform procedures such as circumcision, 1st and 2nd degree lacerations repair and assist with cesarean deliveries
• Plans and initiate a therapeutic regimen which includes ordering legend drugs, medical devices, nutrition, and supportive services in accordance with established protocols and institutional policies.
• Orders laboratory, radiological, and diagnostic studies appropriate for complaint, age, race, sex, and physical condition of the patient.
• Institutes appropriate emergency/stabilization measures and/or treatment in situations such as cardiac arrest, shock, hemorrhage, convulsions, poisoning, and allergic reactions. 
• Performs complete, detailed, and accurate health histories and patient record review.
• Develops comprehensive medical and nursing status reports.
• Meets all the requirements of the practice agreement with the supervising physician(s) under the regulations and requirements of the Commonwealth of Virginia.