Updated: 8/9/2007 3:16:55 pm
Profession: Nursing
Specialty: Nursing Management
Location: VA
Job Type: Full Time
Pay Range: $72,000 - $80,000 (salary)
Job Description:
The Nurse Manager is responsible for the integration, facilitation, and coordination of the management and clinical activities of the nursing unit(s) with twenty-four hour accountability. Provides management and clinical support to other nursing units and house wide as required. Serves as a professional role model, mentor, and clinical resource/educator for nurses and other members of the health care team. Develops unit goals and objectives with other staff based on analysis of clinical and managerial processes to improve patient outcomes and create a culture of excellence. Represents the unit and is a liaison to internal and external customers. Participates in professional development activities and is active on hospital-wide committees. Demonstrates various styles of management. Participates in unit(s) budget development, responsible for monitoring and variance analysis.

Qualifications:
Must be a graduate of an accredited program of professional nursing. A baccalaureate degree is preferred. Must possess current license as a Registered Nurse from the State of Virginia or awaiting reciprocity. Maintains current CPR certification. Work requires knowledge of organization and operation of a patient care unit and nursing care techniques and methods. Possesses knowledge generally acquired through three to five years experience as a professional nurse, with progressively more responsible experience in appropriate specialty area. Must have a broad based knowledge of clinical, psychosocial, and patho/physiological theories relating to nursing diagnosis and treatment. Possesses the ability to perform the range of nursing techniques found in general nursing practice including the unusual and non-routine as normally acquired through three to five years experience as a professional nurse. Previous work experience in a supervisory or charge nurse position that required knowledge of financial management and personnel supervision and practice.




This Regional Medical Center, located in Central Virginia, is seeking a experienced Nurse Manager with visions for excellence in patient care to lead a highly engaged team. Memorial, a member of the fast-growing four-hospital This Health System, serves residents of suburban Hanover and Henrico Counties, rural Virginia's Northern Neck and the City of Richmond. Memorial is currently on the journey towards Magnet status with unit- based nursing shared governance councils. Our dedicated nursing staff includes new graduate to experienced RNs on all floors. As a member of this Health System, you will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package including a competitive salary, relocation bonus, flexible schedules, generous paid time off, on-site childcare and much more! Our 20-bed Orthopedics unit serves the joint-replacement patient population, offers a unit-based educator for pre-op teaching, unit-based Nurse Practitioner for staff development and staff education, and the opportunity to cross-train staff for general surgical overflow. This unit offer low staff vacancies, world-class employee engagement scores and is a pilot unit for new hospital initiatives.


Hospital operates four award-winning hospitals, operates over 40 physician practices, HomeCare, Hospice and provides a variety of healthcare services. It is one of metropolitan Richmond's largest employers with more than 7000 employees. For the eighth consecutive year, Health System has been recognized as an employer of choice by Working Mother Magazine and the Greater Richmond's Workforce One. As part of its healing ministry mission, committed to numerous community outreach health programs and services. The Care-A-Vans, are mobile medical units, are constantly on the road servicing more than a 50-mile radius, delivering health care to the poor and needy. Physicians and nurses conduct routine physical exams, immunizations and health screenings.