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About The Position

Requirements

• Current Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses on Ontario as a Registered Nurse
• Diploma or Baccalaureate degree in Nursing
• Current BCLS and NRP certifications
• Successful completion of a recognized Perinatal Certificate Program with a maternal-fetal focus (within the past 2 years), or evidence of current work in progress with a documented plan for completion or successful completion of the Canadian Nurses Association Perinatal Certification Exam (within the past 5 years)
• Successful completion of a recognized Breastfeeding Certificate Program (within the past 5 years), or evidence of current work in progress with a documented plan for completion, or current certification as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant exam
• Current Fetal Monitoring Certification from the Association of Women’s Health and Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) or current experience in interpreting fetal heart tracings from an electronic fetal monitor
• Recent experience in the care and support of women and their families throughout labour and birth and during the immediate postpartum period (within the past 2 years)
• Recent experience in providing care to pregnant women with varying degrees of obstetrical risk ranging from low to high risk
• Recent experience in the care and support of antenatal women and their families
• Current knowledge of, and recent experience (within the past 2 years) in the care of the newborn during the transitional period
• Vascular access and venipuncture
• Demonstrate knowledge, skill and judgment in caring for women with epidural/spinal analgesia and epidural/spinal anesthesia during labour and birth
• Demonstrate knowledge, skill and ability in health teaching of women and their families during the antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum periods
• Current knowledge of the physiological, psychosocial and emotional needs of the pregnant women and their families
• Current knowledge, skills and judgment in caring for women and their families pre-operatively and peri-operatively including the roles of scrub and circulating nurse and in the care of women in the Post Anesthetic Care Unit (within the past 2 years) or successful completion of the Perioperative Certification Program

Responsibilities

• Assess, analyze, prioritize, plan and evaluate care in collaboration with women and families in both normal and complex situations.
• Provide antenatal care.
• Provide intrapartum care.
• Provide immediate postpartum care.
• Provide breastfeeding support.
• Provide infant care.
• Provide care following perinatal loss.