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Nurse Midwives

$120.88K Median Salary 500 Job Openings (Annual Projection) 12.3% Job Growth

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About This Career

Diagnose and coordinate all aspects of the birthing process, either independently or as part of a healthcare team. May provide well-woman gynecological care. Must have specialized, graduate nursing education.

Reported Job Titles

Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM), Nurse Midwife, Staff Certified Nurse Midwife, Staff Nurse Midwife

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Abilities

Written Comprehension

Deductive Reasoning

Oral Comprehension

Oral Expression

Problem Sensitivity

Inductive Reasoning

Written Expression

Near Vision

Speech Clarity

Speech Recognition

Information Ordering

Category Flexibility

Selective Attention

Arm-Hand Steadiness

Flexibility of Closure

Fluency of Ideas

Memorization

Perceptual Speed

Time Sharing

Finger Dexterity

Manual Dexterity

Originality

Speed of Closure

Visualization

Knowledge

Medicine and Dentistry

Psychology

Customer and Personal Service

English Language

Biology

Sociology and Anthropology

Therapy and Counseling

Education and Training

Mathematics

Law and Government

Skills

Active Listening

Critical Thinking

Social Perceptiveness

Speaking

Active Learning

Monitoring

Reading Comprehension

Complex Problem Solving

Coordination

Service Orientation

Writing

Judgment and Decision Making

Instructing

Learning Strategies

Systems Analysis

Time Management

Systems Evaluation

Technology Skills

Medical software

Spreadsheet software

Office suite software

Tools

Surgical clamps or clips or forceps

Surgical needle holders

Endoscopic hemostatic balloons or needles or tubes or accessories

Surgical scissors

Medical oxygen masks or parts

Blood pressure cuff kits

Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units

Electronic medical thermometers

Irrigation or suction handpieces or cannulas or tips or catheters

Medical aspiration or irrigation syringes

Suturing kits or trays or packs or sets

Reflex hammers or mallets

Medical tape measures

Clinical incubators or infant warmers

Infant scales

Colposcopes or vaginoscopes

Medical acoustic stethoscopes

Resuscitation masks

Notebook computers

Surgical isolation or surgical masks

Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers

Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits

Medical ultrasound or doppler or echocardiograph transducer accessories

Patient floor scales

Urinary catheterization kits

Medical ultrasound or doppler or echocardiograph probes

Blood collection syringes

Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers

Flow sensors or regulators or components

Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units

Specimen collection container

Medical syringes with needle

Medical nasal cannulas

Microscope slides

Lancets

Oxygen concentrators

Vaginal exam speculas

Tourniquets

Surgical gloves

Personal computers

Abilities

Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Knowledge

Medicine and Dentistry: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

Skills

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Technology Skills

Medical software: Henry Schein Dentrix; Medical condition coding software; Medical procedure coding software; MEDITECH software
Spreadsheet software: Microsoft Excel
Office suite software: Microsoft Office software

Tools

Surgical clamps or clips or forceps: Placenta forceps; Serrefine clamps; Sponge forceps; Tissue forceps
Surgical needle holders: Curved needle holders; Straight needle holders
Endoscopic hemostatic balloons or needles or tubes or accessories: Straight hemostats
Surgical scissors: Bandage scissors; Mayo scissors; Metzenbaum scissors; Microscissors
Medical oxygen masks or parts: Infant oxygen masks; Neonatal airways; Patient airways
Blood pressure cuff kits: Sphygmomanometers
Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units: Fetal monitors
Electronic medical thermometers: Electronic patient thermometers; Oral thermometers; Rectal thermometers; Tympanic thermometers
Irrigation or suction handpieces or cannulas or tips or catheters: Suction catheters
Medical aspiration or irrigation syringes: Bulb syringes
Suturing kits or trays or packs or sets: Suturing kits
Reflex hammers or mallets: Reflex hammers
Medical tape measures: Medical measuring tapes
Clinical incubators or infant warmers: Infant warmers
Infant scales: Baby scales
Colposcopes or vaginoscopes: Colposcopes
Medical acoustic stethoscopes: Mechanical stethoscopes
Resuscitation masks: Ambu bags
Notebook computers: Laptop computers
Surgical isolation or surgical masks: Surgical masks
Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers: Personal digital assistants PDA
Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits: Intravenous IV equipment
Medical ultrasound or doppler or echocardiograph transducer accessories: Fetal doppler units
Patient floor scales: Medical scales
Urinary catheterization kits: Urinary catheters
Medical ultrasound or doppler or echocardiograph probes: Vaginal ultrasound probes
Blood collection syringes:
Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers: Evacuated blood collection tubes
Flow sensors or regulators or components: Oxygen flow meters
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units: Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Specimen collection container: Laboratory specimen containers
Medical syringes with needle: Hypodermic syringes
Medical nasal cannulas: Oxygen nasal cannulas
Microscope slides:
Lancets: Lancet needles
Oxygen concentrators:
Vaginal exam speculas:
Tourniquets:
Surgical gloves:
Personal computers:

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