SCRIPPS CLINIC MEDICAL GROUP SEARCHING FOR A CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
Scripps Clinic Medical Group
Application
Details
Posted: 12-Sep-24
Location: La Jolla, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: 126000-171249
Categories:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses / Physician Assistants
Certified Nurse Midwife
Sector:
Hospital, Public and Private
Internal Number: 2
Scripps Clinic Medical Group is seeking to add a full time dedicated Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) to join our OB-GYN department at Scripps Memorial Hospital located in beautiful La Jolla, California. Scripps Clinic offers a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services that are nationally recognized for quality, excellence, and innovation. This is a unique physician/midwife collaborative approach to care working alongside excellent and supportive OB/GYN consulting physicians and specialists that includes 24/7 in house physician back up and a Level III NICU. The CNM will practice autonomously and in coordination with Scripps Clinic physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners within the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to provide quality, safe, compassionate, and cost-effective health care to a diverse patient population.
Key Responsibilities
Must be comfortable with high volumes of triage evaluation and management, intrapartum, delivery and postpartum care for obstetrical patients consistent with the SCMG Practice Guidelines
Independently conduct normal spontaneous vaginal deliveries as needed with immediate care of the newborn, co-manage high risk patients with in-house OB/GYN physicians, and attend postpartum rounds as needed
Act as first assist in Cesarean Sections
Demonstrate ability to work independently while recognizing situations which require the immediate attention of a physician with appropriate consultation and or transfer to MD care
Effectively communicate and interact professionally, positively, and constructively with staff, physicians, patients, and the general public of varying and diverse backgrounds
Skills/ Experience
Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
Adhere to Scripps Health and Scripps Clinic Medical Group’s mission, values, policies, and procedures
This position requires a current California RN and CNM License, NP Furnishing Number, Certified Nurse Midwife and DEA Certificate.
Maintains National Certification from the American Midwifery Certification Board (ACMB) National Provider Number (NPI) and be an approved Medicare provider
NRP and BLS/CPR certification
Two (2) years of recent full scope midwifery Obstetrics and Gynecology including inpatient acute care experience preferred
OB Ultrasound proficiency preferred First assist at Cesarean Sections
Knowledge of professional fee billing and reimbursement methodologies Demonstrate skill in electronic medical records
Benefits
Competitive benefits (health, dental, life insurance, LTD) package including 401(k) Plan, discretionary bonuses and many voluntary benefits.
Scripps Clinic Medical Group (SCMG) is a multispecialty practice featuring one of the most diverse, accomplished medical teams in the country; over 950 physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians across 60+ specialties comprise our membership. Composed of 9 departments and approximately 60 divisions, our average department size is 100 members and our average division size is approximately 15 members.Medical care at Scripps Clinic began in 1924 with the creation of the Scripps Metabolic Clinic via the foresight of Ellen Browning Scripps. As the Scripps Clinic’s reputation for quality and diversity of clinical and scientific disciplines and graduate medical education programs grew, a need for its renowned and burgeoning clinical staff to organize became evident. Hence, in the 1970s, Scripps Clinic Medical Group was born. SCMG works in collaboration with Scripps Health to provide high quality comprehensive primary, secondary and tertiary medical care to their patients across San Diego and the Southwest United States, offering care at large and small clinical practice sites in La Jolla (Torrey Pines campus Geisel Pavilion and La Jolla campus Anderson Medical Pavilion), Bankers Hill, Ca...rmel Valley, Del Mar, Rancho Bernardo, Encinitas, Coronado, Rancho San Diego, Santee, Mission Valley, Hillcrest, and Loma Portal/Liberty Station. Moreover, SCMG is recognized widely as a premiere local and regional tertiary referral center for the evaluation and management of a multitude of difficult to diagnose or treat disorders. We provide inpatient medical care at Scripps’ world-renowned hospitals: Scripps Green Hospital, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, and Scripps Mercy Hospital.Inpatient and outpatient, we are proud to provide over 1.5 million patient visits per year.As Scripps’ 100th anniversary, and SCMG’s 50th anniversary, approach, we will be celebrating the past many decades that we have honored Scripps’ and SCMG’s mission to bring the very best of medical expertise and care to San Diego residents and all who seek the expertise of SCMG clinicians.
