Inpatient Certified Nurse Midwife
NorthBay Health · Fairfield, CA
Posted October 6, 2026
NorthBay Medical Center · 1200 B. Gale Wilson Boulevard, Fairfield, CA, US, 94533
At NorthBay Health, The Inpatient Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) provides comprehensive, evidence-based, patient-centered obstetric and gynecologic care within the inpatient setting, including labor management, childbirth, postpartum care, obstetric triage evaluation, emergency stabilization, and collaboration in multidisciplinary management of maternal-fetal conditions.
The CNM independently manages the care of low-risk women during antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. Co-managements higher risk patients when determined appropriate by CNM and MD. Provides standard maternity care and counseling to women, adhering to the standards of the American College of Nurse Midwives.
The CNM practices within the scope of licensure, institutional credentialing and privileging, applicable state regulations, and collaborative practice standards. The inpatient CNM functions as an integral member of the obstetric care team, partnering with obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, anesthesiology, neonatology, nursing, and other interdisciplinary staff to optimize maternal and neonatal outcomes.
PRIMARY JOB DUTIES
1. Perform comprehensive obstetric assessments for antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients.
2. Independently manage normal labor, spontaneous vaginal delivery, and immediate postpartum care.
3. Evaluate, manage and admit, if appropriate, patients presenting for obstetric triage.
4. Assess labor progress and implement evidence-based labor management strategies.
5. Manage induction and augmentation of labor, including Oxytocin administration per institutional protocols
6. Interpret fetal heart rate tracings and initiate appropriate interventions.
7. Manage spontaneous rupture of membranes.
8. Consults with MD/DO regarding any abnormal findings.
9. Address patient for appropriate pain management, including requesting epidural for women in labor.
10. Perform cervical examinations and labor progression assessments.
11. Repair first- and second-degree perineal lacerations.
12. Manage postpartum hemorrhage according to institutional protocol.
13. Stabilize obstetric emergencies until physician escalation or team intervention.
14. Perform postpartum assessments.
15. Provide contraception counseling and initiate postpartum contraceptive management.
16. Address breastfeeding related clinical issues in collaboration with lactation services.
17. Orders appropriate laboratory tests and medical imaging as needed.
18. Documents all findings of examinations, histories, and significant observations in the electronic medical record.
19. The CNM is expected to actively contribute to the development and sustainment of the inpatient CNM program, including participation in program planning, clinical pathway development, protocol standardization, quality and performance improvement initiatives, interdisciplinary committee work, mentorship, operational problem-solving, and efforts that support the successful integration and long-term viability of the service line.
20. First assist in cesarean delivery (if credentialed).
- Education: Master’s or Doctoral degree in Nurse Midwifery from an accredited program.
- Licensure/Certification:
- Active Registered Nurse license.
- Certified Nurse Midwife certification through American Midwifery Certification Board (ACMB).
- DEA registration.
- National Provider Identifier number.
- Furnishing license.
- BLS.
- ACLS.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP).
- Experience: Minimum of 2 years active CNM clinical practice experience.
- Skills:
- Labor management expertise
- Obstetric triage evaluation
- Fetal monitoring interpretation
- Emergency maternal stabilization
- Postpartum complication recognition
- Hemorrhage management
- Hypertensive disorder management
- EHR proficiency
- **Physical Effort:**Attendance is an essential function of the job. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may participate in the following activities: prolonged standing/walking, frequent lifting, positioning, assisting patients, exposure to bodily fluids and infectious materials.
- Hours of Work: 12-hour shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, and rotating coverage.
Salary Range
$93.08 - $113.15 per hour
Employer
NorthBay Health
NorthBay Health is Solano County's own healthcare provider — an independent, locally managed nonprofit health system founded in 1959 by a team of civic leaders and physicians. Today NorthBay serves Solano, Napa and Yolo counties with two hospitals, NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield (home to the region's Level II Trauma Center and a neonatal intensive care unit) and NorthBay VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville, along with the Surgery Center at VacaValley, a comprehensive cancer center, urgent care locations and a growing network of primary and specialty care clinics. NorthBay is a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a co-founder of the nonprofit health plan Western Health Advantage, and holds Magnet with Distinction recognition for nursing.
The NorthBay Health Medical Group is a multi-specialty group of more than 100 providers — primary care physicians, specialists and Advanced Health Practitioners — practicing across more than 25 locations. Clinicians are supported by extensive clinical care teams that include RNs, medical assistants, patient service representatives, behavioral health professionals and Advanced Health Practitioners, with onsite phlebotomy and radiology in the Centers for Primary Care, so physicians can focus on practicing medicine. A hospitalist program cares for unassigned inpatients, and NorthBay has a long partnership with David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, where military providers can practice part-time and often join full-time after service.
Physicians practice under a Professional Services Agreement designed for independence and collaboration, with an income guarantee, a work RVU incentive, quality incentives, compensation for APP supervision, and one-time payments such as sign-on bonuses, relocation and tail coverage. Professionals who join NorthBay tend to stay — it enjoys one of the highest retention rates in the industry.
NorthBay's service area sits between Sacramento and San Francisco and offers the best of Northern California living: attainable housing, world-renowned wine and dining, vibrant local agriculture, and easy access to the Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada. Choose vineyard views in Napa, waterfront living in Benicia, or a close-knit small town like Winters or Dixon. From Fairfield, Napa Valley is about 30 minutes away, Sacramento and San Francisco are under an hour, and Lake Tahoe is about two and a half hours.