Nurse Manager Thoracic Intensive Care Unit

Job Description:

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 h eart 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 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 6:30–7:00 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.

• Champions the use of available resources to ensure nursing care is efficient, effective, safe, and delivered with compassion, in line with current practice standards.
• Facilitates collaborative decision-making and upholds professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level.
• Assists with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for unit. Uses resources effectively and manages expenses to meet financial goals of department.
• Models and fosters an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit.
• Ensures competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction.
• As delegated, ensures that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually by providing mentorship and professional educational opportunities.
• Evaluates staff competency through use of performance reviews and peer reviews.
• Coordinates performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives, federal, state and other regulatory bodies such as Joint Commission, OSHA, CMS, DOPL, and other unit specific accrediting and certifying bodies.
• Facilitates use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles.
• Serves as an exemplary figure for employees, promoting the integration of Healing Commitments and Healing Connections within all facets of providing patient care.
• Monitors and improves patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes.
• Partners with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.
• Supports the Nurse Director in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating the activities of student nurses.
• Supports staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations.

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 Certification
• Demonstrated experience in the area of oversight.

Physical Requirements:

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