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Care New England Health System
Providence, Rhode Island

Full-Scope Academic Certified Nurse-Midwife (Inpatient & Outpatient)

Nurse PractitionerFull-Time Full Practice Authority

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Job Description

Women & Infants Hospital is seeking a full-time Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) to join our renowned academic midwifery service in Providence, Rhode Island. This position offers the opportunity to practice full-scope midwifery while using your expertise to train the next generation of Obstetric providers.

Outpatient: Provide prenatal, postpartum, and full-scope gynecologic care (contraception, annual wellness, problem visits) across our diverse ambulatory clinical sites.

Inpatient: Manage physiologic labor, spontaneous vaginal deliveries, postpartum care, and triage within Labor & Delivery, OB Triage, Postpartum units, the Antepartum Care Unit, and the Alongside Midwifery Unit.

Attend births in our brand-new, state-of-the-art Labor & Delivery Center, featuring 20 spacious private labor rooms and an innovative, dedicated two-bed Alongside Midwifery Unit (AMU) designed specifically to support physiologic birth.

Actively teach, supervise, and mentor OB/GYN, Emergency Medicine, and Family Medicine residents, as well as Brown University medical students and midwifery learners.

Serve as a faculty member of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Clinical Research & Quality Improvement: Collaborate with nationally recognized leaders in obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine, and midwifery on clinical research, protocol design, and quality improvement initiatives.

For a detailed and confidential conversation regarding this opportunity please contact Stephanie Regine, Advanced Practice Recruiter, at sregine@carene.org.

Requirements

  • Graduate of an accredited Certified Nurse Midwifery (CNM) program
  • Current CNM certification through the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB)
  • Active Rhode Island CNM, CSR, and DEA license or eligible

About Us

About Women & Infants Hospital

Care New England Health System (CNE) is an innovative healthcare leader committed to patient-centered excellence, research, and community health.

As CNE’s flagship specialty institution, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island is one of the largest and most prestigious obstetrical and gynecological teaching hospitals in the United States.

In partnership with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, we cultivate a rich academic environment dedicated to physiologic birth, health equity, and training the next generation of healthcare leaders.

EEO Statements

Americans with Disability Act Statement: External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled must be able to perform the essential job-specific functions either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation, to be determined by the organization on a case-by-case basis.

EEOC Statement: Care New England is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status

Ethics Statement: Employee conducts himself/herself consistent with the ethical standards of the organization including, but not limited to hospital policy, mission, vision, and values.

Key Responsibilities

The Certified Nurse-Midwife will provide full-scope prenatal, postpartum, and gynecologic care while managing labor and delivery in a state-of-the-art clinical environment. Additionally, the role involves teaching, supervising, and mentoring medical residents and students as a faculty member of The Warren Alpert Medical School.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Prenatal CareLabor and Delivery ManagementClinical Teaching

Nurse Midwifery — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Nurse Practitioner listings this role was benchmarked against, 26% are remote, 58% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Nurse Practitioner pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Nurse Practitioner by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedNurse Practitioner median $133k (middle half $125k–$192k)15 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingRhode Island index 102.3US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
All nurse practitioner listings in Rhode Island69 active15,645 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 26% remote · 58% no call · 72% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedUS nurse practitioner listings (all specialties): 24% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 8% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026
Nurse Midwifery NP hiring demand#3 of 19 specialtiespostings stay open a median 47 daysWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 131 postings, 106 closed
New Nurse Midwifery NP listings130 in the last 30 days147 the 30 days before (−12%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Nurse Practitioner pay trend (all specialties)+2.0% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024), WeekdayDoc Hiring Index; as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. Rhode Island figures use all nurse practitioners: too few Rhode Island Nurse Midwifery postings state pay.

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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 50% of Nurse Midwife listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 365 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Care New England Health System

Hospitals and Health Care
Providence, Rhode Island
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Academic faculty appointment at Brown University
Clinical research and quality improvement opportunities
State-of-the-art Labor & Delivery Center

Living in Providence

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$417k
Typical market rent
$2,190/mo
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
101.8
State income tax
Up to 6%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.