Nurse Midwife Certd Splst OLM

At Legacy we are committed to improving the wellness of others. Our mission is to provide compassion and excellent care to our patients our community and each other. We show this each day in everything we do. If you are interested in joining a team that is making a difference we would like to talk with you.

This is a Supplemental position is for our Legacy Medical Group (LMG) Womens Health Clinic. LMG Womens Health includes four physicians and a thriving Midwifery Group. Our providers are part of the medical staff at Legacy Silverton Medical Center. Our midwives provide full scope midwifery in a team-based model collaborating with the physicians as indicated. Our midwife team cares for patients in our Salem Silverton and Woodburn locations. The community we serve identifies as approximately 60% Caucasian and 30% Hispanic including a notable Orthodox Russian population.

Legacy Silverton Medical Center (LSMC): Our Family Birth Center (FBC) is well respected throughout the surrounding extended communities. The FBC includes 18-LDRP rooms an OR on the unit and a tele-baby program which is a direct link to Randall Childrens Hospital at Legacy Emanuel in Portland. Silverton Hospital has been named a Top 100 hospital in the country and the FBC has received the JD Power Award for Excellence. Legacys FBC in Silverton has been consistently chosen as the valleys Best Place to Have a Baby by readers of the Statesman Journal. The midwifery practice has high level of engagement in quality improvement and leadership at our FBC and supports a high functioning interdisciplinary culture on the unit.

Silverton is a quaint town with locally owned businesses a seasonal farmers market summer festivals and historic murals. There is ample opportunity for outdoor activities including The Silver Falls State Park with trails known for hiking biking and horseback riding and The Oregon Garden which is an 80-acre botanical garden and open year-round. We are nestled between Salem and the Cascade Mountains and a one-hour commute to Portland as well as close-proximity to ocean beaches and long skiing seasons making this an opportunity for both professional satisfaction and an active healthy lifestyle.

Responsibilities:

• Provides antepartum intrapartum post-partum family-planning and well-woman gynecological care independently and with consultation to low moderate and high-risk adolescent and adult women based on scope of practice and established guidelines.
• This group provides in-patient newborn care and first assist at cesarean section. This care is guided by practice protocols and standards established jointly by the Silverton Hospital Midwifery Service Staff and the Midwifery Services Program Director under the direction of the Clinical Vice President of Womens Services.
• Functions in collaborative relationships with consulting physicians as clinically indicated.
• Participates in the daily functions and staff rotations as directed by the Midwifery Services Program Director.

• Follows all organizational regulatory and human resource policies and procedures as established by Legacy Hospitals under the direction of the Program Manager of Midwifery Services.

• Practice includes full participation in outpatient care.

• This is a non-exempt position for supplemental employees with unpredictable hours and schedules.

• Bilingual preferred but not required.

Education:

• Current applicable state license as a Registered Nurse/ Nurse Midwife/ Nurse Practitioner with Prescriptive Privileges (NP-PP) required.
• National Certification as a Nurse Midwife (CMW) required.
• Possess active BLS card from the American Heart Association.
• Possess Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification.

Experience:

Full scope womens healthcare and midwifery experience preferred.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Able to conduct research.
• Ability to work with people in a diplomatic and tactful manner utilizing effective leadership and group process skills.
• Demonstrated competency in clinical care as appropriate to the ages of patients served.
• Ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of the patients needs; knowledge of growth and development; and an understanding of the range of treatment needed by these patients.

Sorry no J1 or H-1B visa opportunities.

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