Assistant Nurse Manager

Job Title:

Assistant Nurse Manager

Location:

VMC Main Campus, Renton, WA

Department: 3E Medical, Patient Care Services

Schedule:

Full Time, Days. FTE: 1.

Salary Range:
Min $116,909 - Max $175,364 /annually DOE

VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

Under general direction by the Nurse Manager, the Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) utilizes the nursing process to prescribe, prioritize, delegate, and provide safe, therapeutic allocation of nursing resources to patients/families. The ANM makes independent judgments, decisions, and acts regarding a wide range of routine and complex staffing and unit workflow issues. The ANM collaborates with appropriate disciplines to coordinate continuity of patient care from admission through discharge in support of the medical and nursing plans of care.

• Licensed to practice registered nursing in the state of WA, required.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred.
• Minimum three years of professional nursing experience, including demonstrated skill and preference for adult education (preceptor, charge nurse, unit-based skills, etc.).
• Proficient in EPIC.
• Nursing certification eligible.
• TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer certification preferred.

• Capable of comprehending, executing, and acting within scope of practice.
• Able to communicate effectively in oral and written form in the English Language.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills in a diverse population.
• Proven ability to set priorities, produce accurate work, and deliver quality patient care consistent with the organization standards.
• Demonstrates ability to work in a collaborative manner.
• Flexible and adaptable.
• Demonstrates leadership skills with the ability to lead and manage a team, utilize clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, and systems thinking.
• Motivated and able to problem solve complex situations.
• Demonstrates interpersonal skills that are community centered, compassionate, and meets of diverse and vulnerable populations.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with the physical and emotional development of all age groups.
• Ability to access information and communicate in an electronic environment including but not limited to the use of Microsoft Office suite, email, and computer documentation skills.
• Self-directed in advancing professional practice through continuing education.

Requires full range of body motion, including handling and lifting patients. Manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination, required. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Requires ability to lift and carry items weighing up to 40 pounds in emergency situations. Requires correct vision and hearing to normal range. Requires ability to communicate effectively in oral and written fashion.

Requires working under changing conditions. Requires exposure to communicable diseases or body fluids and other conditions common to the clinical environment.

• The ANM performs specific leadership functions related to clinical practice, education, and/or management as delegated by and in collaboration with the Nurse Manager. The ANM provides leadership for unit and departmental activities that promote:
  • Delivery of quality nursing care
  • A culture of service excellence and acts as role model for patients are first behaviors
  • Effective problem solving and communication
  • Fiscal responsibility and accountability for unit performance
• In addition, the ANM provides support to the unit management team for the assurance of strong workflow processes and infrastructures that promote efficient and effective quality patient care. Support is provided to all staff any day and any shift as determined by need/demand. Emphasizing patient safety, staff safety, organizational integration, and service excellence. The ANM provides leadership and resources that promote the following:
  • Assists in delivering effective staffing schedules that consider staff experience, skill mix, preference, and core matrix.
  • Efficient and effective timesheet/payroll management processes and practices.
  • Timely clinical problem solving and communication of clinical issues at all levels (peer, staff, management, physician).
  • Effective interdisciplinary and interdepartmental communication, collaboration and service coordination using TeamSTEPPS methodology.
  • Effective integration of new technology and organizational initiatives.
  • Effective management of staff practice and professional behaviors using effective interpersonal skills and Just Culture methodology.
  • Staff competency assessment and development.
  • Partners with appropriate CNE/CNS to plan, implement and evaluate unit-based orientation program for permanent, temporary, and contract staff utilizing a performance-based development approach. Promotes continuity in competency development from core to PCS central to unit specific orientation and facilitates individualized orientation process for newly hired staff (RN and support staff).
  • Evaluates…