Janell Niemann-Ross  RN, ARNP, CNM

Education

MN Certified Nurse Midwife in 2007

Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.

BS in Nursing in 2002

Oregon Health & Science University ~ Graduated Magna Cum Laude.  Received the Henrietta Doltz Puhaty award for “compassion & kindness toward patients, colleagues and fellowman.”

BS in Child Development and Family Life in 1981

University of Wisconsin-Stout.  Menomonie, Wisconsin.

Certificates and Conferences

ACLS/BLS and NRP current through 2010

Certification to First Assist with Cesareans 2007

Certification as Water Birth provider 2007

Martha Browning Bryant Lectures, 2005, 2006, 2008

Advanced Fetal Monitoring:  Images, Issues & Interventions, Michelle Murray, 11/2004

Labor & Delivery:  Clinical Challenges for Today’s Nurse, Cindy Parke, CNM, MSN 11/2003

Lactation Conference, Molly Pessl, BSN, IBCLC, 3/2003

Work Experience

Aug 2007 – present   Certified Nurse Midwife, Pacific Midwifery Service, Vancouver, Washington.  Full Scope women’s health and midwifery practice.  We offer the option of vaginal births after cesarean, waterbirths for low risk moms and first assist with cesarean births.  Preceptor.  Basic Spanish speaker.

2003-2007  Labor and delivery staff RN, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.  OHSU is a tertiary care hospital with a diverse patient population and a full spectrum of maternity possibilities.  Providing compassionate, skilled care, I often elected to take “challenging families”.  I enjoyed assisting with water births and women who desire low intervention births, but also valued the times I “normalized” a high risk labor and delivery for families.  I’ve been a preceptor for many nursing students and new orienteer and create a positive and collaborative work environment through modeling mutual respect and effective communication.

1997-1999 Assistant Manager, Ten Thousand Villages, Portland, OR

1990-1996 Preschool teacher & parent educator, Montview Community Preschool and Kindergarten and Emily Griffith Opportunity School, Denver, CO

1986-1995 Bookseller, Children’s and Parenting sections, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO

1984-1985 Instructor for Early Pregnancy class, Casper Family-Centered League, Casper, WY.   I taught classes for couples in their 1st and 2nd trimesters, focusing on nutrition, exercise, and physical and emotional wellbeing.

1981-1985 Headstart Teacher, preschool/daycare provider Wisconsin and Wyoming

Professional Affiliations

American College of Nurse Midwives

Oregon Chapter VI of American College of Nurse Midwives

I’m on the planning team for the Martha Browning Bryant memorial Lecture.  Martha was an exemplary midwife who was killed on the way home from a birth.  A lectureship in her memory is held each October.

Oregon Nurses Association