PICU Nurse Manager

PICU Nurse Manager

East Coast

Our client is one of the top Pediatric hospitals in the United States.

They have an immediate need for a seasoned MANAGER to lead one of their most high profile and lucrative departments.

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of our client is celebrating 50 years of caring for critically ill and injured infants, children and adolescents. They established the nation’s first pediatric critical care unit in 1967.

What began as a six-bed unit now houses 55 licensed beds with more than 400 staff members who care for more than 3,000 critically ill children each year.

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a 55 bed multidisciplinary unit, growing to 60 beds over the next year. The PICU serves critically ill children and their families who require the most advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services. These advanced technologies include, but are not limited to, high frequency oscillatory ventilation, nitric oxide and heliox therapies as well as Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT).

The PICU manager would work alongside a second Nurse Manager and an Operations Manager to support the unit.

Responsible for the patient care systems and structures that promote the provision of excellent nursing care on the unit(s). Manages all nursing personnel within the unit(s). Collaborates with support staff to ensure the smooth operation of the units.

Job Responsibilities

Creates and maintains cost effective systems to ensure the availability of adequate staff for unit/program.

• Identifies optimal patterns of staffing to meet patient care needs of unit/program.
• Ensures unit/program schedule is prepared in a timely manner to meet needs of employees as well as staffing standards for unit/program
• Develop systems for daily staffing adjustment within unit/program.
• Collaborates with nursing supervisors to ensure staffing needs within unit/program and across department are met.

Ensures patient care provided by staff in unit/program is consistent with national standards and/or evidence-based practice.

• Appoints staff representatives to department clinical practice committees.
• Assists staff with development of effective systems to disseminate practice standards within unit/program.
• Supervises clinical practice of staff through rounds, assessment of documentation and feedback from families.
• Ensures that staff participates in educational and clinical development programs to meet specific requirements of patient population served.
• Knowledgeable of clinical standards of care for patient population served by rehabilitation and acute care child development.

Collaborates with other departments to foster interdisciplinary practice and meet the needs of patients and families.

• Works with leadership and staff from other disciplines to create collaborative relationships with nursing staff to meet patient care needs.
• Works with other departments to ensure that clinical staff have systems and supplies/equipment needed to support patient care.

Creates systems for regular family input into care and unit policies.

• Uses patient satisfaction data and other forms of feedback to improve systems of care.
• Involves family members in unit decision-making where appropriate.
• Educates and supports staff to include families in planning and providing care.

Develops active quality improvement systems for unit/program and participates in nursing department QI initiatives.

• Ensures that unit has at least one active quality improvement initiative per year.
• Ensures that unit is represented on departmental QI committee and participates in department QI initiatives.

Required Licenses, Certifications, Registrations

RN - Registered Nurse

Required Education and Experience

• Graduation from an NLNAC and/or CCNE accredited program with a Bachelors degree in Nursing. Masters degree required.
• Minimum of two years prior management or leadership experience.
• According to the CMS (Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services) a copy of diploma or transcript is required as proof of academic achievement for all non-laboratory personnel performing non-waived POC testing

Our client offers an extremely aggressive compensation package depending on experience, great benefits and one of the most challenging and rewarding environments in to practice your profession!

For prompt and confidential consideration, please apply to the link below!

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