How to hire nurse midwives
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Job description template
Copy it, fill in the brackets, and remove anything that does not fit your job. Keep only must-haves you would really turn someone away for.
[Job title] at [Company name] [City, State] · [Full-time / Part-time] · [Pay range] About the role [Two or three sentences about your team, the work and why it matters.] What you will do • Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management. • Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information. • Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others. • Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight. • Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests. • Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations. • Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms. • Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients. What you bring • [Required license, certification or years of experience, if any] • [Education, only if you truly need it. Typical to start in this job: Master's degree] • Strong active listening, critical thinking, speaking, active learning, monitoring and reading comprehension skills • Working knowledge of medicine and dentistry, psychology, customer and personal service and English Language • [Anything else you would really turn someone away for] Pay and benefits [Pay range]. For reference, the U.S. median for this job is $64.44 an hour ($134,040 a year). [Benefits, schedule and anything else candidates should know.] How to apply [Apply on JAI Bot. Every applicant hears back.]
Interview questions for nurse midwives
Ask every candidate the same questions, in the same order, and write down what they say. Questions about past work show what someone has actually done.
- Tell me about a time you had to develop and implement individualized plans for health care management. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
- Tell me about a time you had to document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
- Tell me about a time you had to explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
- Tell me about a time you had to monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
- Tell me about a time you had to understand a request or problem that was explained poorly. How did you make sure you got it right?
- Describe a decision at work where the obvious answer was wrong. How did you work out the better choice?
- Explain something technical from your last job as you would to a new coworker.
- Why this job, and why now? What would make you stay here for the long term?
Good answers name a real situation, what the person did themselves and what happened. Avoid questions about age, family plans, religion, health, national origin or anything else unrelated to the job.
What nurse midwives do
- Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
- Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
- Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.
- Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
- Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.
- Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.
- Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.
- Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
Skills that matter most
Education, experience and outlook for nurse midwives
- Typical education to start: Master's degree (BLS)
- Related work experience most have: 1 to 2 years (O*NET)
- Job outlook: +11.5% over ten years, much faster than average · about 400 openings a year (BLS)
What to pay nurse midwives
Pay depends a lot on where the job is. Highest and lowest median yearly pay by state:
| State | Median yearly pay |
|---|---|
| California | $203,840 |
See nurse midwives pay in every state
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- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Pediatricians, General
- Paramedics
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Post a job freePay by areaJob duties and skills: O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JAI Bot has modified this information; USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Pay: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, May 2025. Interview questions and the job description template: JAI Bot, based on the duties and skills above.