What You'll Do

  • Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care.
  • Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
  • Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
  • Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
  • Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.
  • Consult with or refer patients to appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.
  • Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
  • Document findings of physical examinations.
  • Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.
  • Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.

Essential Skills

Active Listening 4.12/5
Speaking 4.12/5
Critical Thinking 4.12/5
Social Perceptiveness 4.12/5
Reading Comprehension 4.0/5
Active Learning 4.0/5
Monitoring 4.0/5
Writing 3.88/5
Coordination 3.88/5
Service Orientation 3.88/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.88/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.75/5

Career Fit Overview

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Top passions

  • Helper: Supporting people and making a difference matters to you.
  • Analyst: Investigating problems and finding patterns keeps you engaged.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.

Common styles

Concern for Others, Stress Tolerance, Dependability, Integrity, Cooperation

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Written Comprehension 4.25/5
Oral Comprehension 4.12/5
Oral Expression 4.12/5
Problem Sensitivity 4.12/5
Deductive Reasoning 4.12/5
Written Expression 4.0/5
Inductive Reasoning 4.0/5
Near Vision 3.75/5

Technologies & Tools

Acrendo Medical Software Ob/Gyn EMR Allscripts Professional EHR Amkai AmkaiCharts Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR Cerner Millennium ChartWare EMR digiChart OB-GYN e-MDs software eClinicalWorks EHR software Epic Systems GE Healthcare Centricity EMR Greenway Medical Technologies PrimeSUITE Medscribbler Enterprise MicroFour PracticeStudio.NET EMR Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software NextGen Healthcare Information Systems EMR Practice Partner Total Practice Partner Prognosis Innovation Healthcare ChartAccess SOAPware EMR

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Concern for Others (High importance: 4.91/5)
  • Stress Tolerance (High importance: 4.82/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.81/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.76/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 4.67/5)

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How to Become One

This career requires extensive preparation, typically including a graduate degree (Master's or Doctoral) and several years of experience. Most professionals in this field have invested significant time in education and training.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) Direct-Entry Midwife Nurse Midwife Postpartum Nurse Postpartum RN (Postpartum Registered Nurse) Registered Nurse Midwife Staff Certified Nurse Midwife Staff Nurse Midwife