Sanford Health·Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
Provides comprehensive midwifery care for patients with obstetric and gynecologic needs throughout pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum. Responsibilities include monitoring fetal development, performing examinations, and providing wellness education to women and their families.
Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.
Work Shift: Varies (United States of America)
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 32
Join a team of 5 Certified Nurse Midwives in a busy and growing OB practice. This position provides great team collaboration with flexible scheduling.
Call Rotation required
32 hours/week with full-time benefits
Provides midwifery care for patients with obstetric and gynecologic needs during labor delivery and postpartum. Identifies additional needs for mothers and babies in birthing units.
Monitors patients' condition during pregnancies, including co-management of high-risk pregnancies, and performs examinations and procedures.
Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
Maintain and record information in medical records or provide narrative summaries to communicate patient information to other health care providers.
Provides guidance to expectant mothers in prenatal self-care, e.g. nutrition, weight gain, and daily activity levels.
Provides prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, inter-conceptional, well-woman, and gynecologic care and education for women and their families.
Maintains records of patient conditions and test results within care plans.
May order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests as well as prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.
Midwifery as practiced by certified nurse-midwives (CNM) and certified midwives (CM) encompasses a full range of primary health care services for women from adolescence beyond menopause.
These services include primary care, gynecologic and family planning services, preconception care, care during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period, care of the normal newborn during the first 28 days of life, and treatment of male partners for sexually transmitted infections.
Midwives provide initial and ongoing comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
They conduct physical examinations; prescribe medications including controlled substances and contraceptive methods; admit, manage and discharge patients; order and interpret laboratory and diagnostic tests and order the use of medical devices.
Midwifery care also includes health promotion, disease prevention, and individualized wellness education and counseling.
These services are provided in partnership with women and families in diverse settings such as ambulatory care clinics, private offices, community and public health systems, homes, hospitals and birth centers.
Master’s degree, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) or Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) level education required from an approved accredited nursing educational program of the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) and American Midwifery Certification Board Medical (AMCB).
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Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-949-5678 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org.
Requires a Master's, DNP, or PhD in nursing from an accredited program and current CNM and APRN licensure. Must hold BLS certification, a valid driver's license, and a DEA registration number.
Market context
In Wisconsin, CNA openings are often driven by ongoing staffing needs in hospitals, long-term care, and other patient-care settings. These roles can be competitive because employers may prefer candidates with current state certification, though some will also consider applicants who have completed a 75-hour training program and are awaiting the state exam. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save research time, then confirm your certification status and availability before applying.