Washington, DC | PRN/On-Call | $38.61 per hour | Washington Post Top Workplace (8x Winner)
Community of Hope is seeking a caring, skilled RN Birth Assistant to support our Certified Nurse Midwives (CNM) with non-clinical needs during labor, birth and immediate postpartum care. This is a PRN/On-Call position located at our Family Health and Birth Center in NE, Washington, DC.
Our Approach and Values
We celebrate people’s strengths and acknowledge the impact of trauma on people’s lives.
We embrace diversity, welcome all voices, and treat everyone with respect and compassion.
We lead and advocate for changes to make systems more equitable.
We strive for excellence and value integrity in all that we do.
What You'll Do
- Sets up birth room for the patient in labor (including checks of emergency equipment). Maintains a comfortable, clean environment in the birth room.
- Provides ongoing support for patient and family and family as appropriate from admit to discharge.
- Checks maternal vital signs, fetal heart tones, and neonate vital signs at intervals according to Policy and Practice Guidelines; reports any abnormal values to midwife.
- Assists CNMs with tasks surrounding delivery of infant, including but not limited to: ensuring that needed instruments are within reach, assisting with drying and stimulating neonate, and assisting with emergency procedures as dictated by CNM.
- Notes times of all standard and emergency procedures, including vital signs, ROM, birth, placenta delivery, all emergency procedures, and medications given.
- Assists CNM with maternal recovery.
- Returns birth room to original condition following discharge of patient(s), including cleaning, restocking, sterilizing instruments and tub, removing waste and biohazard, replacing instruments used, doing laundry, making bed.
- Completes home visits on day 1 and day 3 after the birth, including completing an evaluation of the mother and baby, performing newborn PKU, providing breastfeeding information and support, and completing a phone call during the first week postpartum and communicating any concerns to the CNM to facilitate a health assessment postpartum period.
- Performs other duties as requested by the midwife.
