Assistant Nurse Manager, Adult Emergency Department

Department Overview

The Emergency Department operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, offering multidisciplinary services for patients of all ages across the lifespan. The department includes a Level 1 Trauma Center, triage services with a physician-in-triage model, Adult Acute Care, Adult Critical Care, and three secure holding rooms for acute psychiatric care. Patients present to the Emergency Department through multiple entry points, including ambulance, walk-in, transfer center (Trauma and PANDA), and Rapid Response Team activation.

This position also comes with great benefits! Some highlights include:

• Comprehensive health care plans that cover 100% for a full-time employee and 88% for dependents for .75 FTE and higher.
• $50K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee
• Two separate above market pension plans to choose from
• Paid time off- 208 hours per year (full-time), prorated for part-time
• Extended illness bank- 64 hours per year, prorated for part-time
• 9 paid holidays per year
• Three weeks of paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance program (up to 5k)
• Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

The ED team is responsible for comprehensive patient assessment, care planning, coordination of interventions, and facilitation of specialty consultations. Procedures and treatments provided include venous access placement, blood specimen collection, medication, fluid, and blood product administration, radiographic imaging, splinting and fracture reduction, laceration repair, moderate and deep sedation, point-of-care ultrasonography, advanced airway management including intubation, cardioversion, sexual assault examinations, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and emergency deliveries.

The patient population ranges from minor complaints to life‑threatening conditions, including trauma, extremity injuries, chest and abdominal pain, migraines, overdose, seizures, dehydration, heart failure, respiratory distress, acute stroke, acute STEMI, psychiatric emergencies, infection, and sepsis. Many patients present with complex medical histories, including substance use disorders. The ED team collaborates to determine appropriate disposition, including hospital admission or safe discharge with appropriate resources, education, and follow‑up care.