Nurse Manager RN Emergency Room

HCA Houston Healthcare; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental & vision insurance

401(k) plan

Employee wellness programs

Tuition assistance

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood is seeking a Nurse Manager RN for the Emergency Room to lead the unit 24/7, ensuring safe, high-quality patient care. The role includes staffing, budgeting, and implementing CQI initiatives while coordinating with hospital leadership.

The ideal candidate will have RN licensure, a bachelor's degree, and extensive ED experience, plus progressive nursing management background. Advanced certifications and crisis-intervention training are highly valued.

Qualifications

• RN license required.
• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Five (5) years recent clinical experience in Emergency department.
• Three (3) years progressive nursing management experience preferred.
• ACLS within 90 days of start date.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)
• PALS within 6 months of start date.
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention within 60 days.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 leadership for the ER unit and oversee all operational aspects.
• Relief staffing within the unit as needed.
• Manage human resources, finances and clinical leadership to ensure quality care.
• Align department goals with hospital-wide CQI initiatives.
• Support growth and development of staff and manage change, crisis, and interpersonal issues.

Skills

ED leadership

Crisis management

Staff coordination

Unit operations

Education

RN license

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Introduction

Want to join a team of daring managers who care without reservations or limits? Our HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood team is looking for a Nurse Manager RN Emergency Room. HCA Healthcare is an advanced healthcare network that has committed up to $300 million to our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Job Summary And Qualifications

The Nursing Manager is a registered nurse with twenty-four hour (24) - Seven (7) day/week, responsibility for all operational aspects of their respective unit. This will be a flexible position in order to accommodate meeting and other day/night hour obligations. Must be able to endure long periods of stress and make competent decisions concerning unit operations and possess the ability to utilize healthy coping skills to manage change, crisis and human relations issues. The position encompasses human resource management, including recommending sufficient number of qualified and competent personnel to provide care; financial and clinical management, and the provision and development of professional leadership. The Nursing Manager establishes departmental goals and objectives that ensure high quality, cost-effective patient care, while working collaboratively to integrate the goals of their department with those at Kingwood Medical Center. The philosophy of continuous quality improvement (CQI) is integrated by the Nursing Manager into all ongoing operations and activities of the department.

The Nursing Manager is expected to provide relief staffing within their unit, and to apply knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span to identify patient and family requirements relative to age specific needs.

What qualifications you will need:

• Advanced Cardiac Life Spt must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
• Basic Cardiac Life Support
• Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 60 days of employment start date
• PALS Pediatric Adv Life Supt must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• Trauma Nursing Core Course must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• (RN) Registered Nurse license required
• Bachelors Degree required
• Five (5) years recent clinical experience in Emergency department
• Three (3) years progressive nursing management experience preferred

As a full-service, 420+ bed acute care hospital, HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood has provided the northeast Houston community with high-quality, cost-effective healthcare for over 25 years. We are dedicated to providing comprehensive, quality care, close to home. Our Women’s Center offers high-risk OB care, a Level III NICU, and pediatric services. We have an advanced Brain & Spine Center, which includes a DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center and the Sleep Center of Excellence. Our Orthopedic Center offers total joint replacement surgery using advanced technology. Other services include innovative and customized cardiovascular services, including open heart and vascular surgery and state-of-the-art imaging and endoscopy services for more accurate diagnosis and treatment plans. We are also a Certified Level I Stroke Center and an Accredited Chest Pain Center. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to its patients, colleagues and communities. Help guide our team as a Nurse Manager RN Emergency Room and help us improve more lives in more ways.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.