Nurse Manager 2, Pediatric Acute Care

The Nurse Manager (NM) is a Registered Nurse (RN) who is responsible for operational, human resources, quality, and financial management of the assigned care area. The NM works with the interdisciplinary team to translate and implement organizational and division priorities into the care area’s operations. The NM ensures a patient care environment that supports a safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, productive, and engaged staff. The NM partners with the interdisciplinary care team to ensure the delivery of safe, quality patient care and compliance with administrative, regulatory and clinical policies and procedures. The NM implements quality and safety initiatives, leads process improvement, ensures adherence to hospital and clinical standards of performance, and human resource management. The NM ensures adherence to regulatory standards, bargaining care area agreements, hospital and clinical standards of performance, and human resource management. The NM creates and sustains a patient care environment that supports a safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, productive, and engaged staff.

The NM’s decisions and actions are based on the ethical principles outlined by the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Nursing. The NM practices in adherence with the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice for Nurse Administrators, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nursing, the Oregon State Board of Nursing’s Nurse Practice Act, and within the context of the Nurse Manager Competencies developed by the American Organization of Nurse Leaders (AONL). The NM exemplifies the principles of the OHSU Culture of Safety Position Statement by committing to a Just Culture, a Reporting Culture, a Learning Culture, and an Engaged Informed Culture.

• Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing.
• Master’s degree in nursing or healthcare-related field, or in process.
• Five years of experience as a registered nurse in a related clinical area of practice or focus.
• Two years of recent leadership experience.
• Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
• AONL Nurse Leader Core Competencies
• AONL Nurse Manager Competencies
• Experience in complex organization environments.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple conflicting priorities.
• Proficient with word processing,
• computational spreadsheet (e.g., Excel), and presentation software.
• Unencumbered Oregon RN License.
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) resuscitation certification.
• Nursing professional certification (within 3 years).

Master’s degree in nursing leadership