Are you a passionate and experienced NICU/Pedes RN who is ready to take the next step in your career? Join our Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and our inpatient Pediatric Unit as an Assistant Nurse Manager, where you'll play a vital role in supporting both of those highly skilled teams, dedicated to providing exceptional care for our tiniest and most vulnerable patients.
In this leadership role, you'll partner with the Nurse Managers to foster clinical excellence, support staff development, promote a culture of teamwork and collaboration, and ensure outstanding family-centered care. If you are committed to inspiring others, driving quality outcomes, and making a lasting impact on the lives of youngest patients, we would love to have you apply.
More About This Opportunity:
- Full Time, exempt role located at our Riverbend Campus
- The salary range for this job opening at PeaceHealth is $64.55 - $96.83
Job Summary
The position is responsible for providing managerial assistance to the Nurse Manager. This position is directly accountable to the Nurse Manager and is responsible for support in the following areas: hiring; staffing and scheduling; orientation; performance assessment; budget monitoring; maintaining and establishing patient care standards; policies and procedures.
Essential Functions
- Demonstrates compassion, respect and caring while working within the scope of Registered Nurse Practice to provide individualized, safe and efficient care to patients and assistance to their families and visitors. Proactively implement measures to promote a safety climate on the unit, considering the inter-relationship of people, tools, and environment in which are is provided.
- Provide leadership, management, and communication skills to department.
- Assist Nurse Manager in planning, recommendation, and implementation of clinical service delivery. Recommend policy changes which enhance nursing ability to achieve top quartile performance.
- Assist Nurse Manager with the staff supervision, counseling and documentation of personnel actions.
- Assist Nurse Manager with the evaluation of work performance and performance assessments.
- Promote, establish and maintain open communication.
- Assist Nurse Manager with budget monitoring.
- Assist with the supervision and direction of the department Clinical Educator.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
What You bring!
Education: Degree from an Accredited School of Nursing Required (BSN REQUIRED WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF HIRE)
Experience:
- Minimum of 3 years applicable nursing experience required
- Minimum of 2 years supervisory/leadership experience in healthcare organization preferred
Credentials:
- Required: Upon Hire Basic Life Support (see below for additional requirements)
- Required: State of Oregon nursing license
Skills
- Strong problem solving, decision making and time management skills (Preferred)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal (Preferred)
- Proficient in the use of computers including MS Office applications (Required)
Department / Location Specific Notes
Alaska:
- Fingerprint check required.
Oregon West Network
BSN required within 6 months of hire.
Unit certification may be required in the following areas:
Women's and Children's- PALS, ACLS, NRP
Critical Care - ACLS, TNCC, NIH
Emergency - ACLS, PALS, TNCC, NIHSS required within 6 months of hire
Medical Surgical - NIHSS
Cath Lab Department- Minimum of 1 year of Cath Lab experience is required.
SHMC RB - At request of Clinical Leadership, ED Assistant Nurse Manager for this specific location may be assigned the additional role of Assistant Nurse Manager for Clinical Decision Unit and will have CareConnect access to support this function.
PHSW:
- BSN required or actively enrolled in program with a targeted graduation date w/in 3 years of date of hire.
- Recent charge nurse experience within the last two years.
- ICU, Cardiovascular ICU, Neonatal ICU, Labor Delivery, Surgical Pre-op, Labor Delivery, Recovery Room, CCRT Critical Care Resource Team: ACLS required.
- Requires skills in the process of continuous adaptation.
- Ability to address generation conflict in workforce applying a philosophical understanding of servant leadership.
- Ability to adjust instructional methods to match learning styles, education and training plan and tailor environment to incorporate nursing students and faculty into the clinical unit culture.
- Ability to identify care patterns or systems thinking which leads to the most effective patient outcomes.
- Knowledge and application of tools for quality & safety (e.g., A3, 5S) and monitors patient outcome at the patient and unit level to achieve top quartile performance.
- Ability to apply interventions at patient and unit levels which promote evidence-based practice, staying current with nursing literature.
- Ability to apply "holism" in nursing as application of body, mind and spirit as a total unit acting together in nursing care delivery and patient need for care.
PHSW - Hospice Medicare Certified
- Minimum of one year of Hospice experience required.
- Recent charge nurse or lead experience within the last two years preferred.
St. John Medical Center:
- All Units - BSN required or actively enrolled in a program with a targeted graduation date w/in 2 years of date of hire.
- Acute Care Services -
- Demonstrates ability to effectively implement change
- Ability to lead applying a servant leadership model
- Ability to adapt instructional methods to match the learning styles, education and training plan to support caregivers with professional development.
- Knowledge and application of tools for quality & safety (e.g. A3, 5S). Ability to monitor patient and unit level outcome to achieve top quartile performance.
- Ability to apply interventions at patient and unit levels which promote evidence-based practice, staying current with nursing literature
- Demonstrates holistic nursing care, incorporating body, mind and spirit in patient's need for care.
- Models the core values and standards of behaviors while promoting organizational strategies using the Leadership Model.
Emergency Department
- Minimum of three years of Emergency nursing experience required.
- On an interim basis, at the request of Clinical leadership, ED Assistant Nurse Manger for this specific location may have interim RT Supervisor responsibilities and will have CareConnect access to support this function.
ICU Unit:
- ICU experience preferred.
Departments in Bellingham:
- Hospice House, BSN required.
- Hospice Medicare Certified, BSN required.
- Wound Healing Center, BSN required.
- Cancer Center, BSN required.
Working Conditions
Lifting
- Consistently operates computer and other office equipment.
- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
- Sedentary work.
Environmental Conditions
- Predominantly operates in an office environment.
- Some time spent on site in medical/hospital setting.
Mental/Visual
- Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information.
- The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
PeaceHealth is committed to the overall wellbeing of our caregivers: physical, emotional, financial, social, and spiritual. We offer caregivers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. Some of the many benefits included in this package are full medical/dental/vision coverage; 403b retirement plan employer base and matching contributions; paid time off; employer-paid life and disability insurance with additional buyup coverage options; tuition and continuing education reimbursement; wellness benefits, and expanded EAP and mental health program.
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For full consideration of your skills and abilities, please attach a current resume with your application. EEO Affirmative Action Employer/Vets/Disabled in accordance with applicable local, state or federal laws.