Inpatient Nurse Manager

Grand Junction, CO - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 09-10-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Essential Functions:

Provide daily leadership direction and oversight of the ICU Float Pool and Wound Care departments ensuring high-quality patient care and compliance with hospital policies procedures and regulatory requirements.
Supervise coach and mentor staff fostering professional growth accountability and engagement.
Develop staffing schedules and determine appropriate staffing patterns to meet patient care needs workload demands and budget expectations.
Monitor analyze and manage workforce productivity ensuring appropriate resource allocation and alignment with organizational goals.
Collaborate with the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer and HR in recruitment selection orientation and retention of staff.
Conduct performance evaluations provide constructive feedback and implement corrective actions when necessary.
Facilitate staff education training and competency assessments; support career advancement and certification opportunities.
Assist with budget preparation monitoring and cost-containment strategies while ensuring effective resource utilization.
Promote a culture of shared governance evidence-based practice patient safety and continuous quality improvement.
Lead unit-based initiatives to improve clinical outcomes patient satisfaction and staff engagement.
Serve as a clinical resource role model and liaison for staff patients families and interdisciplinary teams.
Support hospital-wide initiatives committees and projects representing the ICU in leadership forums.
Ensure accurate and timely documentation reporting and communication across the unit and with other departments.
Oversee and evaluate services provided by outside contractors ensuring quality and compliance with contractual obligations.
Maintain unit readiness for Joint Commission surveys CMS reviews and other regulatory audits; ensure staff adherence to accreditation documentation and safety standards.
Actively support and participate in our designation as a Pathway to Excellence organization fostering a healthy work environment nurse empowerment and shared decision-making.
Participate in the hospitals inpatient nursing leadership on-call rotation providing support and guidance to staff across nursing units outside of regular business hours.
Occasionally step into direct staffing roles within the ICU to support the team and ensure safe continuous patient care during times of high census or staffing shortages or periodically as needed to maintain the direct care skillset.
Promote and maintain exceptional Patient Experience outcomes in the ICU by promoting best practices and rounding on patients as well as performing service recovery when needed.
Tracking identifying trends and improving nurse-sensitive adverse events
Collaborating with other nurse leaders to support optimal staffing directing Float Pool resources as appropriate.
Tracking and collaborating with the Education Department on competency management for Float Pool ICU and Wound care staff.
Collaborating with outpatient providers and leadership as well as inpatient providers and inpatient leaders for Wound Care coverage and supporting optimal patient outcomes for wound/ostomy care.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position directly supervises the work of others.
This position plans monitors and appraises job results; Conducts training; Implements and enforces systems policies and procedures; Maintains safe and healthy work environment by establishing and enforcing organization standards and adhering to legal regulations; Completes operations by developing schedules assigning and monitoring work gathering resources implementing productivity standards resolving operations problems maintaining reference manuals and implementing new procedures.

Qualifications License Education and/or Experience Required:

Bachelors Degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
Masters Degree in Nursing (MSN) preferred.
CCRN PCCN or similar high acuity certification preferred.
Current unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of Colorado.
Minimum of three (3) years of leadership experience in an ICU or critical care department or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Current BLS certification (required prior to employment).
ACLS certification (required prior to employment).
PALS certification (required within 6 months of hire).
TNCC or TCAR (required within 6 months of hire).
NE-BC within 3 years of hire or when eligibility criteria met.

Required Experience:

Manager

Essential Functions:Provide daily leadership direction and oversight of the ICU Float Pool and Wound Care departments ensuring high-quality patient care and compliance with hospital policies procedures and regulatory requirements.Supervise coach and mentor staff fostering professional growth account...

Essential Functions:

Provide daily leadership direction and oversight of the ICU Float Pool and Wound Care departments ensuring high-quality patient care and compliance with hospital policies procedures and regulatory requirements.
Supervise coach and mentor staff fostering professional growth accountability and engagement.
Develop staffing schedules and determine appropriate staffing patterns to meet patient care needs workload demands and budget expectations.
Monitor analyze and manage workforce productivity ensuring appropriate resource allocation and alignment with organizational goals.
Collaborate with the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer and HR in recruitment selection orientation and retention of staff.
Conduct performance evaluations provide constructive feedback and implement corrective actions when necessary.
Facilitate staff education training and competency assessments; support career advancement and certification opportunities.
Assist with budget preparation monitoring and cost-containment strategies while ensuring effective resource utilization.
Promote a culture of shared governance evidence-based practice patient safety and continuous quality improvement.
Lead unit-based initiatives to improve clinical outcomes patient satisfaction and staff engagement.
Serve as a clinical resource role model and liaison for staff patients families and interdisciplinary teams.
Support hospital-wide initiatives committees and projects representing the ICU in leadership forums.
Ensure accurate and timely documentation reporting and communication across the unit and with other departments.
Oversee and evaluate services provided by outside contractors ensuring quality and compliance with contractual obligations.
Maintain unit readiness for Joint Commission surveys CMS reviews and other regulatory audits; ensure staff adherence to accreditation documentation and safety standards.
Actively support and participate in our designation as a Pathway to Excellence organization fostering a healthy work environment nurse empowerment and shared decision-making.
Participate in the hospitals inpatient nursing leadership on-call rotation providing support and guidance to staff across nursing units outside of regular business hours.
Occasionally step into direct staffing roles within the ICU to support the team and ensure safe continuous patient care during times of high census or staffing shortages or periodically as needed to maintain the direct care skillset.
Promote and maintain exceptional Patient Experience outcomes in the ICU by promoting best practices and rounding on patients as well as performing service recovery when needed.
Tracking identifying trends and improving nurse-sensitive adverse events
Collaborating with other nurse leaders to support optimal staffing directing Float Pool resources as appropriate.
Tracking and collaborating with the Education Department on competency management for Float Pool ICU and Wound care staff.
Collaborating with outpatient providers and leadership as well as inpatient providers and inpatient leaders for Wound Care coverage and supporting optimal patient outcomes for wound/ostomy care.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position directly supervises the work of others.
This position plans monitors and appraises job results; Conducts training; Implements and enforces systems policies and procedures; Maintains safe and healthy work environment by establishing and enforcing organization standards and adhering to legal regulations; Completes operations by developing schedules assigning and monitoring work gathering resources implementing productivity standards resolving operations problems maintaining reference manuals and implementing new procedures.

Qualifications License Education and/or Experience Required:

Bachelors Degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
Masters Degree in Nursing (MSN) preferred.
CCRN PCCN or similar high acuity certification preferred.
Current unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of Colorado.
Minimum of three (3) years of leadership experience in an ICU or critical care department or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Current BLS certification (required prior to employment).
ACLS certification (required prior to employment).
PALS certification (required within 6 months of hire).
TNCC or TCAR (required within 6 months of hire).
NE-BC within 3 years of hire or when eligibility criteria met.

Required Experience:

Manager

Key Skills

Nurse Management
Patient Care
Hospital Experience
Employee Evaluation
Acute Care
Healthcare Management
Management Experience
Primary Care Experience
Conflict Management
Nursing
Leadership Experience
Supervising Experience

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Community Hospital

Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, is a full-service, acute care hospital. We bring together expert staff and world-class technology in a healing, family-centered environment.

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