Nurse Manager Intensive Care Unit

Intermountain Health

7d • $52 - $80 • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves managing and supervising nursing departments, specifically the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The Nurse Manager collaborates with nursing leaders, facility managers, and other departments to ensure excellent patient care, achieve financial objectives, and foster 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). 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

• Master's Degree
• Previous ICU experience
• Specialty Certification
• Demonstrated experience in the area of oversight.

Responsibilities

• Managing and supervising nursing departments.
• Ensuring excellent patient care.
• Achieving financial objectives.
• Fostering leadership development.
• Developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards.
• Overseeing the clinical nursing environment.
• Contributing to strategic planning.
• Managing day-to-day operations.
• Ensuring standards of care.
• Facilitating collaborative problem-solving.
• Advocating for resources.
• Promoting shared decision-making.
• Implementing the organization's vision and values.
• Managing budgets.
• Ensuring employee engagement, recruitment, retention, and competency verification.
• Ensuring nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion.
• Facilitating collaborative decision-making.
• Contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions.
• Assisting with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for unit.
• Managing expenses to meet financial goals of department.
• Fostering an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit.
• Ensuring competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs.
• Ensuring that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually.
• Evaluating staff competency through use of performance reviews and peer reviews.
• Coordinating performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives and regulatory bodies.
• Facilitating use of resources by nursing staff.
• Promoting the integration of Healing Commitments and Healing Connections.
• Monitoring and improving patient satisfaction.
• Partnering with physicians at the unit level.
• Supporting the Nurse Director in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating the activities of student nurses.
• Supporting staff participation in outside community organizations.

Benefits

• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• Comprehensive 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.
• PEAK program supports caregivers in the pursuit of their education goals and career aspirations by providing up-front tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution.
• The program offers 100+ learning options to choose from, including undergraduate studies, high school diplomas, and professional skills and certificates.
• Caregivers are eligible to participate in PEAK on day 1 of employment.

What This Job Offers

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