Summary:

Join our team as a Clinical Nurse Manager to lead and oversee nursing operations within a specialized clinical unit. You will manage staffing, budgeting, and compliance while ensuring high-quality patient care. Responsibilities include supervising nursing staff, maintaining regulatory standards, and implementing performance improvement initiatives. This hybrid role requires strong leadership, expertise in critical care, and experience in neurosurgery/general surgery. Ideal candidates hold a BSN, have five years of clinical experience (two in a supervisory role), and possess valid Nevada RN licensure with BLS and ACLS certification. If you excel in team management and patient-centered care, we encourage you to apply.

Position Summary:

Manages one or more clinical units. Duties include determining appropriate staffing levels to achieve organizational goals, participating in development of the unit budget, monitoring the units’ compliance with standards and supervision of nursing staff.

Job Requirement

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing. Five (5) years of clinical nursing experience, two (2) years of which were in a supervisory role or higher. May consider candidates with (4) years of experience in a nursing lead role and completion of required hospital management training class.

Licensing/Certification Requirements:
Valid license from the State of Nevada to Practice as a Registered Nurse, and; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification accepted by the American Heart Association (AHA). Some positions may require one or more of the following: Trauma Nurse Core Certification (TNCC); Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or Advanced Life Support (ALS – accepted by the American Red Cross); Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS). 

Current BLS and ACLS at hire.

Additional and/or Preferred Position Requirements

PREFERENCES WILL BE GIVEN TO APPLICANTS WHO DOCUMENT THE FOLLOWING:

·A minimum of one (1) year of recent (within the past 5 years), documented nursing experience in SICU/NSCU

·Neurosurgery/General Surgery experience is a must

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Physical Requirements

Knowledge of:
Nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation and coordination of patient care); disease process; patient care plan development; patient evaluation and assessment techniques; body mechanics used with ambulating, transferring and repositioning patients; Federal, state and local laws and regulations affecting health care services and Joint Commission Accreditation for Health Organizations (JCAHO) standards; quality assurance and performance improvement principles and methods; Nurse Practice Act; supervisory principles and practices; department and hospital safety practices and procedures; patient rights; infection control policies and practices; handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials; department and hospital emergency response policies and procedures; age specific care practices.

Skill in:
Assigning and monitoring the work of others; evaluating quality control; implementing nursing process including assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation; supervising and training staff; developing and monitoring budgets; developing staffing plans; performing data analysis; communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds under stressful conditions; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties; efficient, effective and safe use of equipment.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
Mobility to work in a typical clinical setting, including stamina to stand and/or sit for extended periods of time, strength to examine and treat varied individuals, vision to use standard office equipment and read printed materials and a VDT screen, and hearing and speech to communicate effectively in both oral and written forms. Strength and agility to exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently to move objects.