Nurse Manager II - NICU

Texas Health•Fort Worth, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The NICU Nurse Manager is responsible for planning, organizing, and delegating activities for the safe, efficient, and effective operation of the unit. This includes collaborating with other hospital departments and leadership, providing resources and guidance for evidence-based practice, and ensuring the unit meets credentialing bodies' requirements. The role also focuses on improving patient care outcomes through effective management of patient care processes, ensuring documentation meets standards, and supporting change initiatives. Human resources responsibilities include staffing based on patient needs, personnel functions like performance reviews and corrective actions, promoting professional growth and development, recognizing accomplishments, fostering staff retention, facilitating new staff orientation, and supporting shared decision-making through the unit-based council. Customer satisfaction is addressed by incorporating customer needs into operations and business planning, and promoting team building. The position involves preparing and managing operating and capital budgets, identifying patient care requirements based on acuity, and ensuring alignment with system and budgetary guidelines. Professional accountability includes involvement in professional organizations, hospital/department/system committees, staying current with professional activities, addressing ethical and legal concerns, educating staff on the chain of command, acting as a role model, adhering to ethical codes and practice acts, participating in community activities, making appropriate referrals, participating in 360-degree evaluations, creating development plans, completing reports in a timely manner, and utilizing various resources for development.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree Nursing Required
3 Years Experience as a registered nurse with previous experience as a charge nurse or similar leadership role (i.e., charge nurse, committee chair, preceptor, supervisor) Required
RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire Required
Knowledge of industry standards: organization, theory, principles, and research processes, quality improvement and change management techniques, financial analysis, budget process and planning, accreditation and regulatory standards, strategic planning principles, ability to assess nursing care requirements based on nursing principles, scope of practice, and regulatory standards.

Nice To Haves

Masters Degree Preferred
Supervisory or Managerial Experience Strongly Preferred
NICU Experience Strongly Preferred
RNC-NIC - Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing a Plus

Responsibilities

Plan, organize, and delegate activities as required for safe, efficient, and effective operation of the unit.
Provide resources and guidance to support the utilization of evidence based practice standards.
Identify and utilize processes and resources that support optimal delivery of data and information to staff.
Facilitate activities that prepare unit, environment, and staff to meet credentialing bodies requirements.
Identify key drivers in throughput process, evaluate areas role, and develop solutions to barriers.
Plan, manage, patient care processes to improve performance.
Facilitate delivery of quality patient care.
Require documentation that meets hospital and credentialing standards/policy/guidelines.
Demonstrates positive supportive role in change process.
Responsible for staffing based on patient care needs.
Responsible for personnel functions including staff, performance reviews and corrective action.
Promote professional growth and development of all employees.
Recognize and reward individual and team accomplishments.
Promote staff retention.
Facilitate new staff orientation.
Supports shared decision-making through the unit-based council.
Incorporate customer needs and expectations into daily operations and business planning strategies.
Promote team building strategies and principles of group process in interaction with staff.
Prepares operating and capital budgets for areas of responsibility.
Manages approved operating and capital budgets effectively and adjusts strategies as needed to meet budget expectations.
Identifies and evaluates patient care requirements and outcomes based upon patient acuity, system and budgetary guidelines.
Demonstrates involvement in professional organization.
Participates in hospital/department/system committees.
Stays current with professional activities.
Alerts appropriate individuals regarding ethical and legal concerns (i.e. Risk Manager, Compliance Officer, Director).
Educates, promotes and evaluates appropriate use of chain of command by staff.
Acts as a role model/mentor.
Adheres to ANA Code of Ethics.
Complies with hospital policies and with Nurse Practice Act.
Active in Reach Out THR and other community activities.
Makes appropriate referrals to Peer Review.
Participates in 360 degree evaluations.
Creates development plan that identifies and addresses areas of needed growth.
Completes reports in a timely manner.
Utilizes various resources for development.