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Manager Nursing Inpatient - Med​/Surg Ortho

Job in Town of Grafton, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Listing for: Advocate Aurora Health
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-11-04
Job specializations:
  • Nursing
    RN Nurse, Director of Nursing, Healthcare Nursing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 170000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 170000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Town of Grafton

Major Responsibilities:
  • Demonstrates unwavering integrity and ethical decision-making, serving as a role model for clinical and leadership excellence.
  • Holds ultimate accountability for nursing standards of practice and operational outcomes within the unit.
  • Champions continuous professional development for self and team, fostering a culture of lifelong learning and evidence-based practice.
  • Leads initiatives to advance nursing governance and professional autonomy across the organization.
  • Drives alignment between unit performance and organizational mission, vision, and strategic priorities.
  • Ensures achievement of safety, quality, patient experience, and cost objectives through proactive planning and performance monitoring.
  • Leads change management efforts to embed high-reliability principles and sustain a culture of safety and accountability.
  • Partners with senior leadership to influence organizational policies and advocate for resources that support optimal care delivery.
  • Cultivates strategic partnerships with physicians, executives, and interdisciplinary leaders to achieve enterprise-wide goals.
  • Serves as the primary liaison for complex stakeholder engagement, conflict resolution, and collaborative decision-making.
  • Oversees workforce planning, talent acquisition, and retention strategies to maintain a high-performing, diverse team.
  • Implements succession planning and leadership development programs to build future nurse leaders.
  • Anticipates trends, regulatory changes, and market dynamics impacting care delivery.
  • Integrates quality, safety, and performance improvement methodologies into workflows.
  • Leads accreditation readiness and compliance initiatives.
  • Develops strategies to optimize patient experience and clinical outcomes.
  • Manages departmental financial performance, including operational and capital budgets.
  • Uses data analytics to drive resource optimization and cost containment.
  • Aligns nursing objectives with organizational growth strategies and leads innovation projects to enhance efficiency and scalability.
  • Acts as a transformational leader who inspires vision, fosters inclusivity, and champions equity.
  • Promotes and is a partner with Professional Governance and empowers staff participation in decision-making.
  • Serves as a catalyst for organizational change, shaping culture and advancing nursing practice.
  • Creates and optimizes staff scheduling and workforce allocation to ensure schedules are balanced to skills, competencies, and evenly covered for patient support and coverage.
  • Maintains accountability for staffing models that balance patient acuity, regulatory requirements, and budget constraints.
  • Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new employees, promotions, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of employee concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall teammate engagement.
  • Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.
  • Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to the organization's business.
  • Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
  • Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.
  • Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.
Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification

Required:
  • Active RN License in current state of practice.
  • Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS). Additional education, training, certifications, or experience may be required based on specialty.
  • Active registered nurse (RN) multi-state compact and/or single-state license with privileges to practice in the state(s) where the RN is providing client nursing services.
  • Licensed nurses practicing via telehealth/telenursing/virtual modalities are required to be licensed or hold the privilege to practice in the state(s) where the client(s)…
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