Certified Nurse Midwife Opportunity in Beautiful Rural Minnesota!

Job Summary

The Certified Nurse Midwife is responsible to provide preconception, antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, as well as routine gynecological care and family planning services in the OB/GYN department.  CNM will also be responsible to provide health education programs for patients and the community to include prenatal classes, the aspects of pregnancy, labor, birth and the first weeks after birth, breastfeeding, infant care and parenting.  They will provide care and health education for the age specific population including adolescents, adults and geriatrics.

Education and/or Experience

• Graduate from a CCNE or NLN accredited nursing program is strongly preferred. Graduate from an approved nursing program is acceptable.
• Graduate from an accredited Nurse Midwifery program is required. 
• A minimum 2 years of experience as a full-time practicing Certified Nurse Midwife in an OB/GYN clinic setting is preferred. 

CERTIFICATION, LICENSURE, and/or REGISTRATIONS 

• Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Minnesota is required.
• Certification as an APRN through the Minnesota Board of Nursing with designation specific to the board of practice is required.
• Federal and/or State DEA certification required according to State guidelines.
• National certification by the American Midwifery Certification Board is required. 

Access Family Health & Avera Medical Group Worthington is a primary care group practice with 12 physicians in five specialties. The current medical staff includes 2 internists, 6 nurse practitioners and family medicine physicians, 3 pediatricians, 2 OB/GYN physicians and a certified nurse midwife, 1 general surgeon and a social worker/behavioral health therapist. All physicians are board certified or board eligible. The clinic was built in 2013 and is located just 10 blocks from the hospital.  The clinic has its own laboratory, x-ray, mammography, ultrasound, pulmonary function and cardiovascular stress testing equipment. 

Sanford Hospital is a fully accredited facility with 50 acute care beds. The hospital provides a full range of inpatient services including comprehensive diagnostic imaging, CT scanning, MRI, ultrasound, a full service laboratory and home health care. The hospital has 4 operating rooms and an emergency room staffed 24 hours a day with qualified emergency medicine physicians. The community also has two nursing homes that provide 150 long-term beds.

• Population 13,000
• Schools – K-6 Catholic, a Christian school, a bi-lingual language academy school, 2 public elementary schools, one public junior high and one high school as well as a community and technical college
• Wide range of recreational activities for adults and children - see a full list of recreational activities and learn more about Worthington by visiting the Worthington Chamber website

Worthington offers a Catholic K-6 school and a Christian school in addition to the public schools; 2 elementary, one junior high, one senior high and a community and technical college.

This lovely community is built around a 795-acre lake, Lake Okabena, and offers all water sports: boating, water skiing, wind surfing and fishing. The city has more than 20 parks, an outdoor pool with water slide, softball & baseball fields, tennis courts, golf courses and more.  See a full list of recreational activities and learn more about Worthington by visiting the Worthington Chamber website.