Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - Certified Nurse Midwife

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - Certified Nurse Midwife (Hourly)

Hiring Department: Mile Square Health Center

Location: Chicago, IL USA

Requisition : 1040157

Posting Close Date: 4/6/2026

Salary: The budgeted salary range for the position is $58.50 to $70.45 Hourly. Final salary offered will be determined by a thorough assessment of available market data, internal salary equity, candidate experience and qualifications, and budget constraints.

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation’s preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting‑edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent “Best Colleges” rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities.

UIC has over 300,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) – Certified Nurse Midwife provides comprehensive health care for women from puberty through menopause in medical areas including prenatal, labor and delivery care, health care assessment, diagnosis and management for preventive health, normal gynecologic care, and minor medical problems as determined by scope of practice guidelines. Implement, interpret and manage laboratory, radiology or other diagnostic screenings and prescribe therapeutic agents, medications and devices.

Educate patients on health status improvement and prevention techniques. Direct and manage members of the health care team in campus and off‑campus clinical sites. Supervise and teach graduate students and resident physicians in clinical settings, lectures and skills assessment labs. Initiate or participate in research. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
-Certified Nurse Midwife (Clinical Hourly) will work across all Mile Square Health Center Sites.

• Perform physical exams, collect and document data, manage labor, and conduct diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and laboratory studies.
• Assess patients for admission and admit when required. Independently manage and deliver low risk women in labor who are greater or equal to 37 weeks.
• Perform and record initial prenatal history and physical on patients in OB ER and labor and delivery (L&D).
• Provide routine prenatal and intrapartum care and document admission, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum orders for low risk women.
• Provide out‑patient prenatal, gynecologic and women’s health care services for low risk women.
• Evaluation and examination of complicated patients in the high risk obstetric clinic, reproductive health clinic, OBER and labor and delivery and present to OB/GYN for management plan, and document orders/implementation.
• Provide care according to the collaborative practice agreements at UI Health. Provide sexually-transmitted infection treatment to partners of patients.
• Perform initial infant evaluation and initiate emergency measures when indicated. Interpret diagnostic tests and prescribe medications including controlled substances. Administer local anesthesia, perform routine deliveries and episiotomies.
• Work collaboratively with other staff members of the OB care team.
• Provide 24 hour 7 days per week in‑house coverage for the midwifery practice including back up call.
• Assist with scheduling of patients for upcoming procedures including coordinating with other services and completion of necessary documentation, scheduling forms,…