Nurse Manager - ICU/PCU
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Nursing
Healthcare Nursing, Director of Nursing
The Nurse Manager has 24 hours, 7 days a week accountability for the provision and evaluation of patient care in the ICU/PCU (Critical Care Areas), and for the management and supervision of staff as assigned. The Nurse Manager demonstrates management practices that include effective labor and performance management, leadership skills, and clinical skills of a registered nurse.
Duties- Provides leadership application of the nursing process to client care, organizational processes /systems, by improving outcomes at the program / service level.
- Initiates interdisciplinary projects to improve organizational performance.
- Uses professional standards of care and practice to evaluate programs and / or service activities.
- Implements an educational plan to meet changing programs or service needs for self and others. Maintains knowledge of current techniques, trends and professional issues.
- Coaches colleagues in team building. Makes sustained contributions to healthcare by sharing expertise internally and / or externally.
- Provides leadership in identifying and addressing ethical issues that impact client and staff, including initiating and participating in ethics consultations.
- Uses the group process to identify, analyze and resolve care problems.
- Collaborates with others in research activities to improve care.
- Manages program resources (financial, human, material or informational) to facilitate safe, effective and efficient care.
- This position requires both clinical/ direct patient care as well as supervisory responsibilities.
Pay Scale: NU46
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards
Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
Work Schedule: Administrative DTOD
Telework: Not available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment
Incentives:
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Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
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