Registered Nurse; RN - Manager, ICU - Intensive Care Unit

Job Summary

Creates an environment where front line nurses and ancillary staff provide whole person care that is safe, complication free, and optimizes functional independence for each patient. Maintains a highly-visible presence on the unit. Collaborates closely with staff, charge nurses, physicians, and other department leaders to ensure that clinical operations are efficient and effective, and achieve high patient/family/staff satisfaction. Supervises and directs the activities of various levels of assigned nursing and ancillary personnel utilizing both professional and supervisory discretion and independent judgment.

Schedules, leads, and coordinates the daily activities of a defined unit on an assigned shift. Assists leadership in accomplishing unit and organizational goals.

• Builds a high performing clinical work team by recruiting and retaining skilled professional staff, building a strong infrastructure with designated charge nurses and unit champions, engaging staff in developing action plans for needed change, completing periodic evaluations of personnel, coaching and disciplining personnel when appropriate, and monitoring attendance.
• Works closely with staff, unit champions, and the clinical educator to identify and meet educational needs. Uses consistent exercise of discretion and judgment.
• Sets and strives to achieve goals for patient safety, quality of care, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Creates a culture of open communication, develops strategies to improve patient/family and physician satisfaction, establishes standards of care for professional nursing practice, monitors critical processes and outcomes of care through audits, analysis of data, and complaints or incident reports.
• Conducts daily rounds with physicians and other staff and actively communicates, as needed, to coordinate appropriate care for patients and families. Directs/monitors personnel in the performance of patient care activities to ensure adequate patient care and quality of work. Investigates and resolves patient care and operational issues, initiates and coordinates individual and team conferences to revise care plans.
• Assesses the personnel requirements of the unit daily and requests additional personnel when necessary. Authorizes and assigns overtime to personnel when appropriate. Completes monthly unit staff schedule accurately and in collaboration with staff and management, minimizing absences and staffing shortfalls.
• Facilitates throughput through early discharge of patients, pull‑ahead beds, timely admission/transfer, and forecasting admissions. Works with facility services to maintain equipment safety and operational readiness. Prevents complications of care including nosocomial infections. Conducts emergency preparedness reviews.
• Performs other job‑related duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of education/related experience:
  Required
• Master’s Degree:
  Preferred
• Five years’ technical experience:
  Preferred
• One year’s leadership experience:
  Preferred
• Two years of acute care nursing in a hospital setting:
  Preferred

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice:
  Required
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor:
  Preferred
• National specialty certification in area of expertise or in nursing administration:
  Preferred

• AHA‑BLS or ARC‑BLS:
  Required

Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of associates and patients. All associates must receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply. Adventist Health participates in E‑Verify.

• Continuing Education
• Bereavement
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Health Care FSA
• 403b retirement plan
• Employee assistance programs
• Life insurance
• Holiday Pay
• 401k retirement plan
• Sick pay
• Health savings account

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