Three time Magnet designated Doernbecher Children’s Hospital (DCH), part of Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), is a regional referral center in Portland Oregon for acute and critically ill children. At Doernbecher, pediatric acute care nurses provide state-of-the-art, high-quality, innovative, and compassionate family-centered nursing care.
DCH Pediatric Acute Care Surgical unit is a 24 bed acute care unit that cares for post-operative pediatric patients across the age continuum. The majority of children we care for are admitted by General Surgery, Urology, ENT, Orthopedics, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, and Cardiology. Our vision is to face all endeavors with a growth mindset and people centered approach to provide excellent patient care and support a healthy work environment. We are a people-centered, interdisciplinary, team-based system of coordinated patient care. The team provides individualized, excellent care for all pediatric patients by working together with departments & specialists across DCH and OHSU to ensure every patient and family receives the right care, at the right place and right time by the right people.
This position comes with a 5% shift differential.
The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) is a registered nurse (RN) who is responsible for upholding excellence in the provision of nursing care through the implementation of the Profession Practice Model. The ANM, in association with the Nurse Manager, is responsible for the managerial and leadership functions within a patient environment. The ANM functions primarily on evening and nightshift hours to provide operational oversight, consistency and continuity. The ANM partners with the interdisciplinary care team to ensure the delivery of safe, quality patient care and compliance with regulatory standards, and administrative and clinical policies and procedures. The ANM performs managerial activities, and demonstrates effective leadership behaviors including performing evaluations, employee mentoring, coaching, and performance management. The ANM implements quality and safety initiatives, engages in process improvement, ensures adherence to bargaining unit agreements and human resource management. The ANM creates and sustains a patient care environment
that supports a safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, productive, and engaged staff.
The ANM’s decisions and actions are based on ethical principles as outlined by the American Nurses Association. The ANM 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, the Oregon State Board Nurse Practice Act, and within the context of the Nurse Executive Competencies developed by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). The ANM 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.
Comprehensive benefits package.
Here are some reasons to be excited about living in Portland:
The Pacific Northwest is an outdoor enthusiast's playground! We have extraordinary beaches to the West and the wild, scenic, and fun Columbia River Gorge to the East. National forests are everywhere. You can be skiing, beach combing or deep in a forest in 2 hours. Portland is quirky, independent, fiercely intelligent, intensively livable and totally down to earth: Just the kind of place you'd like to live. It's a great walking and biking city, with plenty of public transportation, a beautiful airport with non-stop flights to loads of international destinations, a population that celebrates the arts, a culture of great food, artisan coffee and neighborhoods full of shops selling handmade clothes, crafts and furniture.
Take a look at more information about Portland here: https://www.travelportland.com/
Software Powered by iCIMS
www.icims.com