Nurse Manager - Thoracic Intensive Care Unit
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 more than 2 departments and manages a department operating 24 / 7.
Located at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, Thoracic ICU is a 24-bed unit where many of the most critically ill patients in Utah and the surrounding states are cared for. We are a highly specialized ICU that caters to the needs of patients requiring constant monitoring and whose clinical conditions are considered critical. Our patients are predominantly surgical in nature and often require advanced cardiac monitoring and invasive cardiac devices. Our nurses receive specialized training on a number of cardiac devices including ECMO, Impella, LVAD, RVAD, IABP, CRRT, and total Artificial Heart as well as CRRT. Our surgical cases include CABG, valve replacements, complex vascular surgeries, and heart transplants. We are a fast-paced unit that encourages critical thinking and advanced skill development in a safe and supportive environment. The thoracic ICU manager will have approximately 90-100 direct reports with the help of an assistant manager.
Position Details :
- Benefits Eligible : Yes
- Shift Details : Full time, 40 hours / week, Monday through Friday, 8 : 00 AM to 5 : 00 PM; however, as this role oversees a 24 / 7 operational unit, flexibility is essential. The manager will occasionally attend early morning meetings (as early as 6 : 307 : 00 AM), build relationships across day and night shifts, and may be called upon during evenings, weekends, or holidays. While these demands exist, the goal is to maintain a healthy work-life balance and enable the manager to step away when appropriate.
- Department : Thoracic Intensive Care Unit
- Primary Location : Intermountain Medical Center
- Additional Details : Master's of nursing preferred, previous CV and ICU nursing experience preferred. 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.
Skills : - Leadership
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Financial acumen
- Clinical knowledge
- Resource management
- Patient safety
- Mentorship
- Community outreach
Minimum Qualifications :
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.Preferred Qualifications :
Specialty CertificationDemonstrated experience in the area of oversight.Physical Requirements :
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.Need to walk and assist with transporting / ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing / pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.For roles requiring driving : Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.Location :
Intermountain Medical Center
Work City : Murray
Work State : Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours : 40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $50.97 - $78.69
We care about your well-being mind, body, and spirit which is why we provide our caregivers a 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.
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