POSITION SUMMARY
Pay range: $49.34/hr - $74.08/hr
This is a hybrid posting for both the NICU and the Postpartum residency programs. The intended start date is August 10th, 2026. *Note that this date may be adjusted based on operational needs.
About the team:
- Highly desirable working environment: nursing staff is welcoming, encouraging, and provides ongoing support
- You will be mentored by nurses across the WCC units as you orient and continue to grow your clinical practice
- Enjoy the camaraderie and collaboration between nurses and providers in the unit; providers are always available for questions and have a strong presence on the unit
- Join a team where you will focus on two specialties within Women’s and Children’s; if you want to continue to grow your skills you can also cross-train in Labor, Post-partum, Pediatrics and NICU, without needing to re-apply or transfer departments
- Nursing leadership in WCC cultivates a culture of growth and learning; there are many opportunities to get involved and make your voice heard by joining unit-based committees
About the Department:
- We’re a small community hospital with many of the resources available to big hospitals; our OB hospitalist team, respiratory therapists, CRNAs and midwives are all in-house and available 24/7
- Level 2 NICU, Pediatric and low-to-moderate risk LDRP services provided
- Ensure an outstanding patient experience in private rooms, where patients can labor, deliver, recover and be discharged all from the same room for their comfort
- Our holistic approach includes welcoming doulas and midwives, participating in the Home Birth Transfer Partnership, supporting pain management alternatives and providing a jacuzzi tub in every room
- Find fulfillment in serving Hillsboro and its surrounding communities, located in Oregon’s most diverse county
The Registered Nurse (RN) resident under the Nursing Residency Program provides compassionate, evidence-based, and efficient care to individuals, families, communities, and patient populations. The Residency Programs are designed to build on the educational foundation of the novice RN. Every participant in the program is responsible for providing safe, holistic care to patients throughout the continuum of this program which is designed to offer up to 6 months of didactic learning and clinical practice preceptorship to achieve the programs core objectives.
Each RN Resident will receive valuable mentorship and skill development within a supportive team environment.
The RN’s care delivery is consistent with the Oregon Nurse Practice Act, the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, and the ANA Code of Ethics and meets the standards/expectations of Professional Practice. Professional accountability enriches the RN’s engagement as a leader in promoting an inter-professional culture of collaborative decision-making, innovation, life-long learning, and teamwork.
Main Responsibilities:
· Evaluates own knowledge and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and evidence-based knowledge; identifies areas of strength and professional growth; sets and achieves professional development goals.
· Evaluates knowledge and nursing practice of peers, recognizing strengths, providing constructive feedback and maintaining caring and compassionate relationships.
· Evaluates patient outcomes against quality goals or benchmarks. Promotes innovation through participation in data collection, data analysis, evidence-based performance improvement plans, nursing or interdisciplinary research, and education about change methods.
· Implements direct and indirect nursing care consistent with evidence-based practices, hospital policies and procedures, and scope and standards of practice.
· Uses an evidence-based decision-making process to determine the patient’s priority goals and care activities.
· Protects and advocates for patient safety, health and wellbeing.
· Keeps the patient as the focus when exercising judgment in accepting responsibilities, seeking consultation, and assigning activities to others who carry out nursing care.
· Acts as a patient advocate by partnering with the person, family, significant others, and caregivers, as appropriate, to implement and evaluate the plan of care. Assures that the plan is aligned with the patient’s physical, spiritual, and psychosocial goals, initiating changes as appropriate.
· Delegates and supervises tasks consistent with other caregivers’ scope of practice, adhering to standards, regulations, and role expectations including self-care and collaborative teamwork.
· Delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, privacy, dignity, confidentiality, and rights.
Specialty-specific responsibilities during each orientation:
Post-partum
- Provides holistic patient centered care to mothers in antepartumand post-partum period.
- Assists and manages post-partum dyads as part of the interdisciplinary team
- Adapts care to accommodate unexpected changes in patient status. Communicates patient needs and changes in condition to physician, team members and/or family.
- Cares for patients with complications including but not limited to: pre-eclampsia, diabetes, post-partum hemorrhage.
- Collaborates with leadership team, physicians or midwife, lactation nurse, and NICU nurse.
- Performs maternal and newborn assessments and care.
- Supports individualized postpartum breastfeeding goals.
- Assess and support psychosocial needs of the family while providing education and reassurance.
- Assists with fetal demise and providing patient-family support.
- Maintains organization electronic medical record documentation requirements.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Provides patient and family centered care within a level 2 NICU to babies born at 32 weeks or later.
- Focuses on the care of “feeder-grower” infants—babies who are learning to feed, gain weight, and develop the skills needed for discharge—as well as newborns requiring short-term respiratory support.
- Delivers care in a lower-acuity environment with a typical length of stay of approximately 5-7 days, supporting infants and families through a relatively short but important transition period.
- Assess and support developmental needs of pre-term newborns promoting growth, feeding success, and physiologic stability.
- Assesses patients and implements nursing interventions and physician orders including but not limited to, prescribed treatments and medication administration.
- Assesses patients and implements nursing interventions and physician orders including but not limited to, prescribed treatments and medication administration.
- Responds and assists with Neonatal cardiopulmonary distress in accordance with NRP guidelines and neonatologist expertise.
- Troubleshoots and maintains competencies to NICU equipment.
- Provides comprehensive parent education focused on feeding, newborn care, safe sleep, and transition to home.
- Works with other members of the interdisciplinary care team including, leadership team, physicians or midwife, lactation nurse, respiratory therapy staff, labor & delivery nurse, postpartum nurse, and social work.
- Supports psychosocial needs of parents during a shorter NICU stay, emphasizing confidence-building and discharge readiness.
- Maintains organizational electronic medical record documentation requirements.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications:
- Associates Degree in Nursing (ADN)
- Current Registered Nurse license in the State of Oregon
- American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS
- NRP required within six (6) months of hire
- S.T.A.B.L.E. required withing six (6) months of hire
Other Requirements:
- For Postpartum: Second specialty training area is required after a minimum of 12 months following completion of the Post-partum Residency Program in one of the following areas:
- Labor and Delivery (L&D)
- NICU
- For NICU: Second specialty training area is required after a minimum of 12 months following completion of the NICU Residency Program in one of the following areas:
- Labor and Delivery (L&D)
- Postpartum
Our Competitive Benefit Offerings
- Free and plentiful parking and located one block from MAX station
- Tuition reimbursement and scholarship opportunities
- Certification pay bonus program
- Clinical Ladder Program for Nurses to promote ongoing development, which corresponds to an hourly differential for those who meet requirements
- Affordable medical, dental, and vision plan options for employees and dependents
- Generous paid time off program for vacation, holidays, and sick time
- 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Award-winning Wellness Program and employer paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Additional voluntary benefit offerings and discounts at select retail and fitness centers
- Life insurance and basic disability fully employer paid
Additional Posting Information
Hillsboro Medical Center believes in providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals. Recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, working conditions, training, and compensation will be based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, creed, national origin, marital status, family relationship, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. We further commit ourselves to continuing the practical application of this policy in our daily business conduct.
