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Nurse Manager Critical Care

Clinical Management Consultants
Wilmington, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 7/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/16/2026
Nurse Manager Critical Care—lead an elite ICU in southeastern North Carolina where innovation, high-acuity nursing, and career-defining leadership converge for a thrilling next step in your nursing management journey ✨.

The Nurse Manager Critical Care role is an opportunity to join a mission-driven, patient-first healthcare organization with a strong reputation for clinical excellence, measurable outcomes, and safety. As a Nursing Manager Intensive Care Unit, expect a culture of shared governance, evidence-based practice, and Just Culture accountability, with modernization investments such as robotics, advanced imaging, AI-assisted decision support, virtual nursing, and remote monitoring that streamline workflows, reduce clicks, and elevate care. As a Nurse Manager ICU, benefit from award-winning workplace momentum, transparent career pathways, clinical ladders, specialty councils, mentorship, and quality registries that benchmark against national best practices for superior ICU performance and nurse-sensitive indicators.

The Nurse Manager Critical Care will lead an Intensive Care Unit known for complex critical care and multidisciplinary collaboration. This critical care service provides high-performing critical care, ranked by U.S. News (2023-2025) for expertise in heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and COPD. As a Nursing Manager Intensive Care Unit, you’ll guide a program that, as part of a Regional Leading Health system, offers specialized, high-acuity intensive care with academic-level protocols, serving as a regional hub with a 350 bed capacity. As a Nurse Manager ICU, you’ll help advance throughput, rapid response strength, and sepsis, ventilator, and antimicrobial stewardship bundles aligned with national guidelines.

The Nurse Manager Critical Care reports to a Director of Critical Care Services with close partnership from an ACNO/CNO, intensivists, hospitalists, and service line leaders; as a Nursing Manager Intensive Care Unit, expect robust support from clinical educators, CNS resources, analytics dashboards, and specialty consults while overseeing staffing, budgeting, patient flow, policy development, and continuous improvement initiative. The Nurse Manager ICU will champion high reliability, low HAI rates, nurse engagement, preceptor development, and onboarding excellence within a friendly, diverse team of RNs, APPs, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, PT/OT, case management, and social work—where interprofessional respect and collaboration drive exceptional patient experience and outcomes.

The Nurse Manager Critical Care will enjoy southeastern North Carolina’s coastal lifestyle, with mild weather, quick access to Atlantic beaches and rivers, abundant outdoor recreation, live music and festivals, regional attractions, and a flourishing food scene. As a Nursing Manager Intensive Care Unit, benefit from a balanced cost of living, varied housing options from historic neighborhoods to new builds, short commutes, walkable and bikeable pockets, and vibrant community life with strong diversity and inclusion. The Nurse Manager ICU can count on quality K–12 options, nearby higher education, expanding job market and entrepreneurship, modern digital infrastructure, accessible healthcare, regional airports with easy connections, family-friendly parks and sports, pet-friendly amenities, clean public services, and a stable economy poised for smart growth.

The Nurse Manager Critical Care position offers competitive compensation with incentive potential, shift and certification differentials, and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement with match, paid time off, tuition assistance, paid CEUs, conference funding, and wellness resources. To explore this Nursing Manager Intensive Care Unit opportunity confidentially, connect with a Clinical Management Consultants recruiter today—spark your ICU leadership future and say yes to growth, purpose, and impact ; step forward as a Nurse Manager ICU and elevate critical care excellence in southeastern North Carolina now.

Salary : $100,000 - $128,880

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