Inpatient Certified Nurse Midwife

The Inpatient Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) at NorthBay Health provides comprehensive, evidence-based, patient-centered obstetric and gynecologic care within the inpatient setting. This role encompasses labor management, childbirth, postpartum care, and obstetric triage evaluation, along with emergency stabilization.

The CNM independently manages low-risk women during antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. Daily duties include evaluating labor progress, managing induction and augmentation, interpreting fetal heart rate tracings, and performing deliveries. They also manage postpartum hemorrhage and stabilize obstetric emergencies.

The CNM functions as an integral member of the obstetric care team, partnering with obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, anesthesiology, neonatology, and nursing. Collaboration with interdisciplinary staff optimizes maternal and neonatal outcomes. The CNM practices within the scope of licensure, institutional credentialing, and collaborative practice standards.

The CNM actively contributes to the development and sustainment of the inpatient CNM program, including participation in program planning, clinical pathway development, and protocol standardization. The role offers opportunities to shape evidence-based maternity care practices through quality improvement initiatives.