Nurse Manager - Peace Island Medical Center, Friday Harbor, WA

• Demonstrate compassion, respect and caring while working within the scope of Registered Nurse practice to provide individualized, safe and efficient care to patients with an interdisciplinary team and provide assistance to families and visitors.

• Responsible for 24-hour day-to-day operations of unit: supervision of personnel; staff performance and patient outcomes; staff procurement and retention; regulatory compliance; and patient care. Evaluate work performance and conduct annual performance assessments. Delegate and coordinate responsibility for completion of departmental projects, tasks, and activities.

• Assist with the implementation of strategic initiatives for the department and identifies, assesses, and responds to issues and problems which affect ability to meet goals/objectives.

• Manage staffing levels required to provide optimum patient care within the limits of available resources.

• Assure quality of care by aligning assigned unit (s) with the hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care; carry out adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measure health outcomes against standards; make or recommend adjustments.

• Deliver financial results for area (s) of accountability.

• Maintain a collaborative and cooperative working relationship with other departments and divisions; facilitating operational, quality, performance and change initiative implementation.

• May perform patient care duties.

• Develop and support clinical excellence, environment of care

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

• Preferred: Master of Science in Nursing

• Required: Minimum of 3 years related Nursing experience

• Required: Minimum of 2 years Leadership experience

• Required: Work experience which demonstrates progressive leadership responsibility i.e. in Charge Nurse or supervisory role and financial and budgetary knowledge and experience
• Required: Emergency department experience
• Preferred: Critical Access experience

• Required: Registered Nurse and

• Required Upon Hire: BLS, ACLS, ENPC, TNCC

• Preferred: Advanced Cardiac Life Support

• Demonstrate competence in area of expertise. (Required)

• Strong problem solving, decision making and time management skills. (Required)

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written. (Required)

• Proficient in use of computer including MS Office applications. (Required)

• Ability to manage complex operations and diverse personnel. (Required)

• Ability to effectively collaborate with interdisciplinary teams. (Required)

• Oversees Emergency Department and all other hospital nursing departments.
• Emergency Experience is required.
• Administrator on Call
• Critical Access experience preferred
• BSN Required
• MSN Preferred

• Consistently operates computer and other office equipment.

• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

• Sedentary work.

• Predominantly operates in an office environment.

• Some time spent on site in medical/hospital setting.

• Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information.

• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

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