Patient Care Manager/Nurse Manager II - CVOR (Full-Time, 8-Hour Day Shifts)

Stanford Health Care • Palo Alto, CA

11d • $94 - $125 • Onsite

About The Position

The CVOR Patient Care Manager (PCM) provides frontline clinical and operational leadership for the Cardiovascular Operating Room, overseeing a highly specialized team supporting cardiothoracic, vascular, and transplant surgical services. This role is accountable for daily operations, staffing, patient flow, and coordination of complex and emergent cases in a high-acuity procedural environment. The PCM ensures staff competency, onboarding, and ongoing education specific to CVOR practice, while maintaining compliance with regulatory, quality, and safety standards. The role partners closely with surgeons, anesthesia, perfusion, SPD, supply chain, and nursing leadership to ensure case readiness, efficient throughput, and timely issue escalation. The CVOR PCM is responsible for performance management, staff engagement, and retention, as well as contributing to process improvement initiatives that support patient safety, operational reliability, and service line sustainability. Stanford's Cardiovascular Operating Room is globally recognized with a long history of excellence in surgical care. As a pioneer in heart transplant surgery, Stanford surgeons performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States in 1968, cementing Stanford's reputation as a leader in cardiovascular medicine. In 1981, Stanford performed the first successful heart-lung transplant. Currently, Stanford ranks #1 in the US for Transplant Rate, #1 for Graft Survival Rate at the 1-year mark, and #1 in California for Organ Acceptance. Our nurses are trained with state-of-the-art technology and equipment allowing them to fully contribute as members of a multidisciplinary surgical team. Stanford CVOR nurses are highly skilled, dedicated professionals who are committed to providing exceptional care to patients undergoing complex cardiac, vascular, and thoracic surgeries. Why Stanford Health Care: We are a top 10 ranked level 1 trauma magnet facility in the U.S. with world recognition and state-of-the-art facilities. Our compensation rates are in the top 1% of the nation. We invest in your continued career growth with yearly education funds of $2,000.00 and invest in your retirement with a robust matching program. Our positions offer a career ladder and continued pay growth. We help you commute to work for free and offer a relocation to make a possible move more manageable for you and your family. This role offers an annual incentive plan up to 11.25% of base salary. This is a Stanford Health Care job. A Brief Overview The Patient Care Manager is a Registered Nurse who provides unit leadership and works in partnership with nursing, the healthcare team, hospital/system leaders to develop a quality practice setting that support professional nursing and quality patient care. The Patient Care Manager is accountable for the effective delivery of competent, compassionate, and efficient patient care. Responsibilities include coordination of patient care; supervision of a professional team that includes multiple nursing and other staff as appropriate; administrative and budget management; troubleshooting of problem areas; organizational change management; ensuring compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards; quality assurance/quality improvement; safety and risk management requirements as well as actualization of hospital and unit policies, goals and objectives. Further, improving unit operations, enhancing communication and feedback, customizing education and staff roles, and accepting organizational accountability for services provided to recipients are critical outcomes expected of this role. The Patient Care Manager role is critical to hospital operations and minimally accomplishes the following essential duties. Patient Care Manager I vs. II designation is based on span of control, hours of operation, and level of unit complexity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university Required
• Master's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university
• 3+ years to 5 years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience Required
• Ability to contribute to health care policy formulation when working in partnership with a multidisciplinary team of health care providers
• Ability to delegate responsibly to others, activities according to ability, level of preparation, the standards of practice and regulatory guidelines
• Ability to develop programs and lead process improvement projects
• Ability to establish the strategic direction and business plans for a functional group
• Ability to initiate and implement change conducive to the improvement of the quality and safety of patient care delivery
• Ability to provide leadership, influence others to meet patient needs and achieve shared goals, to effectively prioritize system resources to provide quality and valued patient care, promote cooperative behaviors, act as a role model, resource and mentor
• Ability to supervise, coach, mentor, train, and evaluate work results
• Ability to use information and keep abreast of developments in technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making in patient care
• Knowledge of current theories, principles, practices, standards, emerging technologies, techniques and approaches in the nursing profession, and the health care system, and the responsibility and accountability for the outcome of practice
• Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care in the area of assignment
• Knowledge of principles and practices of organization, administration, fiscal and personnel management essential to the practice of nursing in the larger context of health care
• Knowledge of principles, practices and current trends in health care and hospital system organization and administration sufficient to provide clinical management, leadership, coordination, and operational direction for assigned areas of responsibility
• RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure And/Or Compact State Licensure required

Responsibilities

• Ensures the effective delivery of competent, compassionate, and efficient patient care by planning, organizing, and directing the nursing services of unit(s), including the assessment of patients, implementation of physicians' orders, treatment plans and medical procedures, administration of medication and record keeping of same as well as by monitoring and evaluating patient care processes and outcomes for the patient care unit(s); coordinates nursing activities with those of other services or disciplines. Demonstrates clinical competency in assigned specialty area role models nursing practice consistent with the organizational and department mission, vision and values.
• Communicates in a clear and effective manner to enhance team effectiveness, manage conflicts, engage employees and interdisciplinary colleagues in unit activities and performance changes. Collaborates with others within the unit and with all hospital departments and disciplines to enhance problem solving, decision making and performance improvement.
• Plans and forecasts the department budget by calculating required FTES, planning annual budgets, interpreting payroll and other key fiscal reports, projecting workload as well as monitoring and enhancing productivity. Performs variance analysis by interpreting financial performance and identifying key drivers. Identifies unit/capital budget needs in collaboration with physician and nursing colleagues. Plans and implements staff scheduling, position controls and attendance control procedures.
• Directs the personnel management of the employees assigned to the department consistent with state and federal labor laws, collective bargaining agreements, and nursing service and hospital philosophy, goals and policy. Ensures that new staff is interviewed, hired, trained, oriented, precepted and evaluated. Prepares and conducts employee performance appraisals. Approves transfers, promotions and other decisions affecting employee pay and status. Participates in initiating and documenting disciplinary actions and responding to grievances.
• Assumes twenty four (24) hour responsibility and accountability for the operation of the assigned patient care unit(s), service(s), staff, and facilities. Plans, organizes and directs short and long term departmental activities in accordance with hospital goals and accrediting organization standards. Provides leadership and direction for the staff in the patient care unit(s) while supporting and actualizing the goals of the department, division, service, and hospital. Functions as a resource to staff and interdisciplinary team members and interdepartmentally, consults on nursing care and professional nursing practice.
• Assumes responsibility for accessing and utilizing appropriate date in order to monitor unit operations. Accountable for achieving patient and staff satisfaction targets for the organization and unit of responsibility. Develops, implements and evaluates process improvement projects/process in order to continually monitor and improve patient care.
• Facilitates professional development and clinical growth of nursing staff through implementation and maintenance of unit specific competencies. Promotes and facilitates educational opportunities based on assessment of staff needs.
• Supports the quality framework, which includes both clinical and service quality indicators. Creates an environment of patient care that is safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient and equitable.

Benefits

• We invest in your continued career growth with yearly education funds of $2,000.00 and invest in your retirement with a robust matching program.
• We help you commute to work for free and offer a relocation to make a possible move more manageable for you and your family.
• This role offers an annual incentive plan up to 11.25% of base salary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees