Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Patient Care


+ Assesses patients in the ante-, intra- and postpartum periods to ascertain any conditions that may require the care of the physician.

+ Attends to the comfort and offers emotional support for the patient during childbirth.

+ Possesses skills and knowledge essential to the application and interpretation of the electronic fetal monitoring.

+ Has knowledge of and assists physician with special unit procedures.

+ Provides for the mother and her significant other(s) education regarding antepartum and postpartum care of the mother and care of the newborn.

+ Responds appropriately according to department standards to emergent situations (i.e. hemorrhage, fetal distress, the depressed neonate or precipitous delivery).

+ Respond to emergency medical situations in an urgent manner and perform on the spot emergency assistance which may include first aid an...