Nurse Manager ICU

Intermountain Health

11d • $52 - $80 • Onsite

About The Position

This job description applies to Nurse Manager and Nurse Manager-Complex. The difference is the scope level below. This role involves managing and supervising nursing departments. Collaborating with nursing leaders and other facility managers and departments, the nurse manager is key in ensuring excellent patient care, achieving financial objectives, and fostering leadership development. The position is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards, typically for one unit. The job duties are distributed as follows: 50% Tactical (day-to-day activities like staffing and equipment availability), 40% Operational (budget management, supply acquisition, and employee performance evaluations), and 10% Strategic (developing goals to meet the Intermountain/Regional Strategic Plan and holding employees accountable to these goals). Scope: Level 1 Nurse Manager: • Manages <50 headcount or manages a department operating Monday through Friday. Level 2 Nurse Manager-Complex: • Manages >50 headcount or more than 2 departments and manages a department operating 24/7. Essential Functions This role encompasses a range of responsibilities that report to a Nurse Director. The responsibilities include overseeing the clinical nursing environment, contributing to strategic planning, day-to-day operations, and standards of care. The role involves facilitating collaborative problem-solving, advocating for resources, promoting shared decision-making, and implementing the organization's vision and values. Additionally, the responsibilities encompass managing budgets, ensuring employee engagement, recruitment, retention, and competency verification. Champions the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards. Facilitates collaborative decision-making and upholds professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level. Assists with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for unit. Uses resources effectively and manages expenses to meet financial goals of department. Models and fosters an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit. Ensures competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction. As delegated, ensures that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually by providing mentorship and professional educational opportunities. Evaluates staff competency through use of performance reviews and peer reviews. Coordinates performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives, federal, state and other regulatory bodies such as Joint Commission, OSHA, CMS, DOPL, and other unit specific accrediting and certifying bodies. Facilitates use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles. Serves as an exemplary figure for employees, promoting the integration of Healing Commitments and Healing Connections within all facets of providing patient care. Monitors and improves patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes. Partners with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals. Supports the Nurse Director in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating the activities of student nurses. Supports staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution
• Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice
• Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers
• Leadership/supervisory experience
• Must complete Intermountain Health’s required leadership training and development courses within one year of accepting this leadership position
• 2 years clinical experience

Nice To Haves

• Specialty Certification
• Demonstrated experience in the area of oversight

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the clinical nursing environment
• Contributing to strategic planning
• Managing day-to-day operations
• Establishing and maintaining standards of care
• Facilitating collaborative problem-solving
• Advocating for necessary resources
• Promoting shared decision-making
• Implementing the organization's vision and values
• Managing departmental budgets (capital/operating and personnel)
• Ensuring employee engagement, recruitment, retention, and competency verification
• Championing efficient, effective, safe, and compassionate nursing care
• Contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions
• Ensuring staff are updated on executive-level activities
• Managing expenses to meet financial goals
• Fostering an environment of professionalism and employee engagement
• Ensuring adequate and competent staffing levels
• Overseeing new skill training and annual competency verification
• Evaluating staff competency through performance and peer reviews
• Coordinating performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives and regulatory bodies
• Facilitating the use of resources by nursing staff
• Promoting the integration of Healing Commitments and Healing Connections
• Monitoring and improving patient satisfaction
• Partnering with physicians to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals
• Supporting the Nurse Director in overseeing student nurse activities
• Supporting staff participation in community organizations

Benefits

• Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
• 100+ learning options to choose from, including undergraduate studies, high school diplomas, and professional skills and certificates through the PEAK program.
• Up-front tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution through the PEAK program.

What This Job Offers

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