Neonatal ICU Night Shift Nurse Manager

NYU Langone Hospitals; New York (NY); On-site; USD 159,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

NYU Langone Health invites applications for an Assistant Nurse Manager, Neonatal ICU, Night Shift. This leadership role supports the nurse manager, oversees staffing and clinical practice, and ensures high quality patient care in a busy NICU.

The role requires NYS Registered Nurse licensure, a BSN, and at least 2 years of nursing leadership or bedside experience. Exceptional communication, coordination, and clinical governance are essential.

Qualifications

• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing.
• 2 Years experience required.
• Clinical certification in the patient population served or nurse leader certification.
• Ability to apply nursing process toward achievement of specific outcomes in an organized fashion to address patient/family satisfaction and quality indicators.
• Evidence of excellent communication (both oral and written), interpersonal, organization, critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills.
• Basic Life Support Certification through the American Heart Association.
• Physical stamina, manual, dexterity, visual and aural acuity to perform responsibilities. Required to handle and move reasonably heavy weight.

Responsibilities

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYULHs tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover.
• Collaborates with interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals.
• Facilitates and supports positive and productive work and care environments, founded in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and meaningfully recognizing staff.
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Collaborates with nurse manager on interviews and ensures that employees are appropriately selected, on-boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated.
• Evaluates the performance, and assesses practice, of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner.
• Serves as role model and resource for staff. Develops and manages employees through the promotion of professional growth and development, mentoring, appreciative coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline, as appropriate.
• Monitors attendance of staff. Ensures appropriate staffing and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and safety, while promoting fiscal responsibility.
• Coordinates care delivery and assignment of staff based upon identified patient care needs and clinical competency for optimal unit operation and patient outcomes.
• Assists in scheduling, payroll and integrating services across the care continuum.
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support the clinical operations of the unit.
• Provides leadership support of other unit(s) in the service.
• Holds self and others accountable for the delivery of exemplary care in a cost-efficient manner.
• Assists with maintaining accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards and policies at the organizational, local, state and federal level.
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
• Communicates significant patient care issues, family concerns, safety, risk management concerns and critical events to leadership on duty at the time, seeks consultation and assistance when indicated, and reports to the Nurse Manager or Director in timely manner.
• Communicates regularly with the Nurse Manager about patient safety, clinical practice, staff performance, and participates in implementation of unit initiatives.
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy, engaging front-line staff, incorporating the precepts of shared governance.
• Supports data collection in collaboration with the nurse manager and interprofessional team. Analyzes and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics to achieve excellence in patient and nursing outcomes.
• Assists leadership team in maintaining licenses, certificates, mandated learnings and content for unit staff.
• Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure.
• Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation and transformation with a focus on the future.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice efforts.
• Leads and supports developing of new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes.
• Exercise independent judgment in the course of these duties: discipline of employees including suspension and discharge, evaluation of staff, approval time off requests, assigning work to staff, part of the decision making team regarding hiring staff.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Registered Nurse license NYS

Job description

NYU Langone Health invites applications for an Assistant Nurse Manager, Neonatal ICU, Night Shift. This leadership role supports the nurse manager, oversees staffing and clinical practice, and ensures high quality patient care in a busy NICU.

The role requires NYS Registered Nurse licensure, a BSN, and at least 2 years of nursing leadership or bedside experience. Exceptional communication, coordination, and clinical governance are essential.