Director of Nursing I Emergency Department

Veracity Ventures Inc. • Albuquerque, NM

2d • $120,000 - $150,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Nursing I leads nursing operations in the Emergency Department. The role requires strong emergency medicine leadership and clinical operations experience, including leading nursing teams, managers, or clinical staff. The director is expected to improve employee engagement and retention, patient throughput and satisfaction, and workplace culture while overseeing quality improvement, staffing, productivity, regulatory compliance, budgeting, and cost control. The role also involves building effective working relationships with physicians and multidisciplinary stakeholders, developing staff, and addressing operational challenges while maintaining quality and compliance. Experienced Emergency Department Nurse Manager candidates may be considered if they demonstrate the required leadership scope and operational achievements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• Demonstrated Emergency Medicine leadership experience.
• Strong clinical background in Emergency Department operations.
• Experience leading nursing teams, managers, or clinical staff.
• Proven ability to improve employee engagement, retention, patient throughput, and workplace culture.
• Experience with quality improvement, staffing, productivity, and patient satisfaction initiatives.
• Strong communication, leadership, mentoring, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience monitoring regulatory and accreditation compliance.
• Financial and operational management capabilities, including budgeting and cost control.
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with physicians and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Strong judgment, empathy, accountability, and change-management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as an Emergency Department Director or Emergency Department Nurse Manager with measurable improvements in clinical operations, patient flow, staffing effectiveness, employee retention, and patient experience.
• Ability to explain leadership approach, give examples of resolving operational challenges, and demonstrate staff development while maintaining quality and regulatory compliance.
• Strong Emergency Department Nurse Manager candidates may be considered if they demonstrate the leadership scope and operational achievements required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Emergency Department nursing operations and teams.
• Improve employee engagement, retention, patient throughput, and workplace culture.
• Lead or support quality improvement, staffing, productivity, and patient satisfaction initiatives.
• Monitor regulatory and accreditation compliance.
• Manage financial and operational matters, including budgeting and cost control.
• Establish effective working relationships with physicians and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop staff, resolve operational challenges, and maintain quality and regulatory compliance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director