Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Or Certified Nurse Midwife - Perinatal Program

Nemours is seeking a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner or Certified Nurse Midwife to join our Nemours Children's Perinatal Program in Wilmington, DE.

The Nemours Fetal Care Center and Advanced Delivery Unit are expanding the scope of service to include comprehensive prenatal, obstetrical and postpartum care for women whose unborn child has been diagnosed with a birth defect or complex medical condition that will require immediate multidisciplinary pediatric care in the neonatal period. In addition to currently available prenatal imaging to diagnose these conditions, we are also expanding invasive diagnostics and fetal intervention procedures. The NFCC-APP will work with the Maternal-Fetal Medicine physicians, Obstetricians and the entire multidisciplinary team to provide full scope maternal care including prenatal care, postpartum care, inpatient care, assist in fetal procedures in the outpatient setting and in the operating room, and assessment of fetal well-being. In this role, the qualified NFCC-APP will play an integral role in the care and support of these patients throughout their high-risk pregnancy journey into the postpartum period.

Essential Functions

• Provide comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care in person and via phone/telehealth visits
• Perform preoperative and postoperative evaluations
• Round on fetal intervention patients during their hospital stay
• Provide care in a supportive, family centered approach
• Provide patient education and counseling
• Assist in fetal procedures (outpatient and operating room)
• Assist in coordination of multidisciplinary care
• Assess fetal well-being using electronic fetal monitoring in conjunction with ultrasound data
• Review prenatal records, laboratory studies, and imaging results, incorporating all data into a comprehensive patient care plan
• Communicate care plan with patient and answer patient questions
• Document patient encounters in EMR
• Mentor and educate junior APPs and students, sonographers, genetic counseling students, medical students, residents, and fellows, and other allied health professionals
• Participate in quality and performance improvement efforts including the development and review of policies and procedures related to clinical care performed
• Opportunities to participate in educational and research activities

Qualifications

Women's Health Nurse Practitioner or Certified Nurse Midwife

DE RN (or compact state), DE APRN, DE CSR, DE DEA

Hold National certification as WHNP-BC or Certified Nurse Midwife

Minimum 5 years' experience in women's health/prenatal/obstetric care

Experience interpreting electronic fetal monitoring

Experience with sterile technique

Experience functioning as scrub technician and first assist preferred