Nurse Manager Intensive Care Unit

Intermountain Health

2d • $52 - $80 • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves managing and supervising nursing departments, specifically within 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).
• 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.
• Leadership skills.
• Communication skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Financial acumen.
• Clinical knowledge.
• Resource management skills.
• Patient safety knowledge.
• Mentorship skills.
• Community outreach skills.

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, and fostering leadership development.
• Developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards.
• Overseeing the clinical nursing environment.
• Contributing to strategic planning, day-to-day operations, and 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.
• Championing the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards.
• Facilitating collaborative decision-making and upholding professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level.
• Assisting with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for unit.
• Using resources effectively and managing expenses to meet financial goals of department.
• Modeling and fostering an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit.
• Ensuring competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction.
• Ensuring that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually by providing mentorship and professional educational opportunities.
• Evaluating staff competency through use of performance reviews and peer reviews.
• Coordinating 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.
• Facilitating use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles.
• Serving as an exemplary figure for employees, promoting the integration of Healing Commitments and Healing Connections within all facets of providing patient care.
• Monitoring and improving patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes.
• Partnering with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.
• Supporting the Nurse Director in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating the activities of student nurses.
• Supporting staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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