RN Nurse Manager - Med Surg and ICU Day Shift

Located off the beautiful Oregon Coast, Adventist Health Tillamook has been one of the area's leading healthcare providers since 1950. The facility includes a 25‑bed critical access medical center, rural health and urgent care offices, home care services, and a broad range of services throughout Tillamook County and surrounding areas.

Creates an environment where front line nurses and ancillary staff provide whole person care that is safe, complication free, and optimizes functional independence for each patient. Maintains a highly‑visible presence on the unit. Collaborates closely with staff, charge nurses, physicians, and other department leaders to ensure that clinical operations are efficient and effective, and achieve high patient/family/staff satisfaction. Supervises and directs the activities of various levels of assigned nursing and ancillary personnel utilizing professional judgment and independent discretion.

Schedules, leads, and coordinates the daily activities of a defined unit on an assigned shift. Assists leadership in accomplishing unit and organizational goals.

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of education/related experience:
  Required
• Master's Degree:
  Preferred
• Five years' technical experience:
  Preferred
• One year's leadership experience:
  Preferred
• Two years' experience of acute care nursing in hospital setting:
  Preferred

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice:
  Required
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) or Basic Life Support (BLS OR HS‑BLS OR RQIBLS) certification:
  Preferred
• National specialty certification in area of expertise or in nursing administration:
  Preferred

• Builds a high‑performing clinical work team by recruiting and retaining skilled professional staff, building a strong infrastructure with charge nurses and unit champions, and engaging staff in developing action plans for needed change to create safe, desired outcomes.
• Sets and strives to achieve goals for patient safety, quality of care and compliance with regulatory requirements; creates a culture of open communication; develops strategies to improve patient/family and physician satisfaction; establishes standards of care for professional nursing practice that staff are held accountable to; monitors critical processes and outcomes of care through audits, data analysis, and incident reports.
• Conducts daily rounds with physicians and other staff and actively communicates, as needed, to coordinate appropriate care for patients and families; directs/monitors personnel in the performance of patient care activities to ensure adequate patient care and quality of work; investigates and resolves patient care and operational issues; initiates and coordinates individual and team conferences with health team members, patients, and/or families to revise care plans for optimal, individualized patient care.
• Assesses the personnel requirements of the unit on a daily basis and requests additional personnel when necessary; authorizes and assigns overtime to personnel when appropriate; completes monthly unit staff schedule on time, accurately, and in collaboration with staff members and management.
• Facilitates throughput through early discharge of patients, pull‑ahead beds, and timely admission/transfer of patients; forecasts admissions; works with facility services to ensure department and equipment is safe and operational; prevents complications of care such as nosocomial infections; conducts emergency preparedness reviews.
• Performs other job‑related duties as assigned.

Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all associates and patients. All associates are required to receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.