Manager Nursing Inpatient - PICU

Socket.dev; Conroe (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands seeks a Manager of Inpatient Nursing to uphold shift accountability, support the Assistant Clinical Director, and lead patient care in a premier pediatric setting.

You will oversee clinical competency, staffing, and unit operations, collaborating with physicians, families, and the health care team to deliver safe, high‑quality, family‑centered care for children. This role emphasizes nursing leadership and quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
• RN - Licensure through Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse Licensure Compact required.
• BLS - Basic Life Support certification required.
• Certification in a specialty area or nursing leadership preferred (within 1 year).
• 2 years of nursing experience required.

Responsibilities

• Maintains clinical competency and ensures patient needs are met within a family-centered care environment.
• Monitors patient throughput to ensure safe, quality, and efficient care.
• Coordinates with the healthcare team to achieve clinical outcomes; acts as liaison between physicians, families, nursing staff and ancillary departments.
• Addresses HR issues for assigned staff; coaches and develops nursing staff.
• Monitors productivity; aligns staffing and resources with patient care needs.
• Supports unit goals and communicates the organization’s strategic plan to staff.
• Participates in unit-based quality initiatives to monitor clinical outcomes and nursing excellence.

Education

BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing)

RN Licensure (Texas Board of Nursing or compact)

BLS Certification (American Heart Association)

Job description

We’re searching for a Manager of Inpatient Nursing, someone who’s ready to be part of the best ranked children’s hospital in Texas and among the best in the nation. In this position, you will maintain shift accountability for clinical and personnel activities and provide support to the Assistant Clinical Director.

The Patient Care Manager participates in the delivery of high quality, family-centered, and developmentally appropriate patient care at the unit level.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains clinical competency by ensuring that the physiologic, psychosocial, and developmental needs of the patient are met within a family-centered care environment.
• Monitors and facilitates patient throughput to ensure the delivery of safe quality and efficient care.
• Coordinates and collaborates with patient care needs with appropriate members of the healthcare team to achieve desired clinical outcomes and management of care across the continuum. Demonstrates effective communication skills with the health care team and work to eliminate communication barriers. Serves as a liaison between physicians, families, nursing staff, and ancillary departments.
• Observes, identifies, and addresses human resources issues for assigned staff. Coaches, counsels, and develops nursing staff to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care.
• Monitors productivity and assures that staffing and resources are aligned with patient care needs.
• Supports the implementation of unit goals and communication of the organization’s strategic plan to staff.
• Participates in unit-based quality initiatives for the purpose of developing and monitoring clinical outcomes that demonstrate nursing excellence.

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing (BSN) required
• RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse Licensure Compact required
• BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association required
• Certification in specialty-specific area or nursing leadership, with completion of certification within 1 year of assuming the role preferred
• 2 years Nursing experience required

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands is north Houston’s first true, free-standing pediatric hospital designed, equipped and staffed exclusively to provide care in more than 25 areas of specialty care for children and adolescents. Hospital facilities include 24 emergency center rooms, outpatient exam rooms, radiology rooms, operating rooms and acute care beds, as well as a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.