Significantly challenging essential functions include:

• Perform clinical skills that may be necessary during prenatal, birth, postpartum, newborn, and well-woman care
  
  
• Lift and reposition clients
  
  
• Perform motor skills such as suturing, starting IVs, intubating, injecting, and driving vehicles
  
  
• Correctly administer medications
  
  
• Work long and irregular hours, sometimes with little break or for days at a time
  
  
• Maintain mental and physical health
  
  
• Read, write and speak with clarity