Manager-Nursing-Hospice

0090 Presbyterian System Services; New Mexico; On-site; USD 100,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition & certification reimbursement

Staff safety badge

Shift differentials (night/weekend)

Loan forgiveness program

Malpractice insurance

EPIC electronic charting

Job summary

Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico seeks a Nurse Manager to plan, direct, and coordinate operational, financial, and personnel activities for designated departments. You will provide clinical and operational leadership to ensure high-quality patient care and regulatory compliance.

The role requires active RN licensure in New Mexico, a BSN, and experience leading nursing teams. The organization emphasizes safety, education, and performance improvement across shifts.

Qualifications

• Active New Mexico nursing license
• BSN degree required or enrollment within 12 months of hire
• Experience leading nursing staff and units in a healthcare setting

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment, interviewing, and onboarding of nursing staff.
• Ensure compliance with state and federal labor laws and organizational policies.
• Drive performance, quality indicators, and patient safety initiatives.
• Monitor budgets, cost reports, and variances to meet financial targets.
• Promote clinical excellence through evidence-based practice and staff education.

Skills

People management

Financial management

Strategic planning

Labor law compliance

Process improvement

Clinical practice knowledge

Staff development

Relationship management

Diversity & inclusion

Shared governance

Accountability & professionalism

Education

BSN required

Tools

EPIC

Job description

Location

1400 Chama Ave Santa Fe, NM 87505-3372

Compensation

Pay Range: Minimum Offer $100,152.00 Maximum Offer $175,718.40

Summary

Assists the Department Director in planning, directing and coordinating the operational, financial and personnel activities of the designated departments. Provides clinical and operational leadership for areas assigned.

Benefits

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
• EPIC electronic charting system

Type of Opportunity

Full time FTE: 1.00 Job Exempt: Yes Work Shift: Days (United States of America)

Responsibilities

Leadership Competencies A. Leads Self: Foundational knowledge of the master competencies B. Leads Team: Ability to manage and direct team and unit operations C. Leads PHS: Ability to achieve results a. Performance Dimensions i. Managing the Business 1. Human resources: Manages the processes of recruitment, interviewing, and selection of candidates 2. Orientation of new staff: Overseeing the outcomes of orientation processes and retention of new hires. Addresses areas of opportunity to meet organizational goals. 3. Labor Laws: Facilitates and holds accountabilities to supporting an environment maintaining compliance with state and federal labor laws. 4. Process Improvement: Drives the monitoring and interventions to achieve results including quality indicators/targets, utilization of performance tools to improve processes and outcomes, optimizing patient safety, maintaining a continuous regulatory ready environment, and optimizes communication between all work groups. 5. Foundational thinking: Uses analytical, data-driven techniques for decision-making processes that will structure work models and support evidence-based practice 6. Technology: Proficient in using computer based skills/applications, clinical based technologies supporting patient care including electronic medical record, medication management, integrates technology into patient care processes and to support work systems. Support environment and staffing to provide a super-user environment for enhancing technical learning into at the point of care performance. 7. Strategic management: Contributes to or drives work plans to achieve optimal patient care and organizational results to the point of care, written reports of outcomes, presentation to key business audiences. 8. Clinical practice knowledge: Has understanding of nursing and care processes supporting clinical care practice in service area(s). 9. Financial management: Drives financial components of unit operations including budget creation, monitoring, analyzing, report variances in areas of responsibility. Responsible for achieving established target. ii. Leading People 1. Human resource leadership skills: Manages staff performance including evaluations, goal setting, development plans; ability to achieve staff engagement and satisfaction, mentoring. Participation in succession planning; models professional standards and behaviors. Seeks input from key clinical leadership staff. 2. Relationship management: Provides leadership at the point of care by applying communication skills that optimize active listening, inquiry; use effective dialogue, conflict management techniques, negotiation, and mediation skills for assigned areas. Maintains open, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and healthcare partners. 3. Diversity: Maintains and holds staff accountable for an environment that upholds the cultural/population specific standards for those served; maintain an environment that upholds a diverse workforce. 4. Shared decision making: Advocates and supports the process of shared governance and shared decision-making. iii. Professionalism 1. Professional and personal accountability: Role models the value of continuous learning including academic advancement, continuing education, and maintains currency on current care practices. Actively involved in performing annual self-assessment and on-going development action plan. 2. Career Planning: Assesses career planning/goals and develops/implements continuous learning and activities to support goal path. 3. Personal Journey: Actively reflects on continuous learning activities, utilizes action-learning techniques to identify and act on areas of strength and opportunities. 4. Reflective Practice: Incorporates and role models integrity, ability to maneuver ambiguity, seeks and acts on the potential within self and others, supports and fosters C.A.R.E.S. behaviors, supports a just culture. iv. C.A.R.E.S. Behaviors: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care and supports, fosters, and holds self and staff answerable to C.A. R. E. S. behaviors (Continuous learning, accountability, respect/respond, environmental safety, and superior outcomes). v. Professional Practice Model: Synergy 1. Synergy Model: Within the patient care environment manages staff performance and accountabilities to incorporate (1) Clinical judgment and action, (2) Patient advocacy, (3) Caring practices, (4) Collaboration within the interprofessional team, (5) Systems thinking, (6) Response to diversity, (7) Facilitation of learning, and (8) Clinical Inquiry.

Professional Requirements

Maintains current professional licensure 1. Educational Requirements a. Nurse Managers hired or rehired on/after July 2012, without BSN are hired under the contingency that they enroll and begin their BSN courses within 12 months of hire or rehire and they must complete their BSN program within 48 months of hire or rehire. 2. Exceptions to Educational Requirements a. The PHS Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer and/or CDS Assistant Chief Nursing Officer/Regional Director of Patient Care Services may consider exceptions to these requirements. b. If on July 2012, if the registered nurse is 55 years or older, the nurse will be grandfathered into new job profile and this requirement waived. 3. Professional emergency response training requirements as specified by service area a. CDS Inpatient i. Current BLS required ii. Additional Requirements based upon area of service 1. Progressive Care: Current ACLS required 2. Adult Intensive Care: Current ACLS required 3. Adult Cardiac Critical Care: Current ACLS required 4. Emergency Department: Current ACLS/PALS required 5. Pediatrics: Current PALS required 6. PICU: Current PALS required 7. Newborn Nursery: Current NRP required 8. NICU: Current NRP required 9. Family Birthing Center: Current NRP/Fetal monitoring required; permanent charge ACLS required 10. Mother-Baby Care-Current NRP required 11. Operating Room: Current ACLS, PALS required 12. PACU: Current ACLS, PALS required b. CDS Outpatient i. Primary care clinics: Current BLS required ii. Specialty care clinics: Current BLS required, Chemotherapy certification required in Oncology iii. Urgent Care: Current BLS required iv. Pediatric Urgent Care: Current BLS/PALS required c. Regional Critical Access Hospitals i. Medical- Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. iii. Emergency Department: BLS/ACLS/PALS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/NRP/fetal monitoring required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. v. Operating Room: Current ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. d. Regional Non-Critical Access Hospital i. Medical- Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. iii. Emergency Department: Current PALS (PRMC), ACLS/TNCC (Espanola)/ENPC (Espanola) required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/ NRP/STABLE required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. v. Operating Room: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. vi. Day Surgery: Current BLS/ACLS required . Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. e. Home Care/Hospice i. Home care: Current BLS required ii. Hospice: Current BLS required iii. Inpatient Hospice: Current BLS required

Other information

Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License or Graduate Nurse Permit required *BLS required. Academic Preparation: *BSN required *Degree from accredited academic nursing program (If a program is under conditional status, approval may be granted by system CNO) UPDATED: 3/1/26

Company Culture

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About Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses. Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

Equal Employment Opportunity

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.

Compensation Disclaimer

The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience and training, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs. We're Determined to Support New Mexico's Well-Being | Presbyterian Healthcare Services Here, we’re committed to a different way to make a difference. Presbyterian's story is really the story of the remarkable people who have chosen to work here. Starting with Reverend Cooper who began our journey in 1908, the hard work of thousands of physicians, nurses, employees, board members, and volunteers brought Presbyterian from a tiny tuberculosis sanatorium to a statewide healthcare system, serving more than one in three New Mexicans. We are part of NewMexico's history and committed to its future. That is why we will continue to work just as hard and care just as deeply to serve NewMexico for years to come.