Nurse Manager Labor and Delivery

About the Hospital

NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn is a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The hospital is central to a comprehensive network of affiliated ambulatory and outpatient practices, and serves as NYU Langone Health's anchor for healthcare access, growth, and delivery in the entire borough. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive.

We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Nurse Manager Labor and Delivery. In this role, the successful candidate provides clinical leadership and management of a designated care area(s) 24/7, consistent with the philosophy, goals, and mission of NYU Langone Health. Assumes responsibility and accountability for all facets of nursing practice and performance within said designated area(s), and for meeting all pertinent organizational goals and targets.

Develops, fosters, and sustains an environment of excellence in patient/family service, staff growth and development, quality nursing care, and staff engagement and satisfaction.

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYUs tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover.
• Collaborates with inter‑professional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Fosters positive and productive work and care environments, founded in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion to attract and retain staff.
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Conducts interviews, hires, develops and evaluates departmental leadership from orientation through termination, if necessary, according to established standards.
• Evaluates the performance of personnel in a fair and transparent manner.
• Serves as role model by demonstrating visibility, accessibility and effective communication that convey a strong sense of advocacy and support for staff and leadership.
• Participates in establishing the strategic area’s financial plan and utilizes data to make strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Coordinates care delivery using labor productivity data to plan and evaluate staffing patterns, discharge and/or volume targets, and to assist clinical leaders in planning and validating staffing patterns.
• Holds self and others accountable for the delivery of exemplary care in a cost‑efficient manner.
• Coordinates and facilitates activities to promote service and interdisciplinary teamwork.
• Designs, implements and evaluates programs and activities to ensure compliance with accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards and policies at the organizational, local, state, and federal level.
• Participates in the development, approval, and implementation of nursing and organizational policy, incorporating the precepts of shared governance.
• Collects, analyzes, and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics to achieve excellence in patient and nursing outcomes.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in nursing research and evidence‑based practice efforts.
• Ensures staff compliance with maintaining licenses, certifications, and mandated learnings and content.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals.
• Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure.
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
• Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation and transformation with a focus on the future.
• Leads and supports developing of new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes.

• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State.
• Basic Life Support Certification through the American Heart Association.
• Master’s degree in nursing required.
• At least three years of pertinent clinical practice.
• Certification in nursing leadership…