Nurse Manager – Medical/Surgical Services

Position Highlights:

Job Type: MSU Manager

Location: Grand Junction ,CO

Schedule: Full-Time (Exempt)

Facility Salary: $110,240/yr to $126,776/yr plus benefits

Relocation Assistance $: Amount will vary depending on where they're relocating fro

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Essential Function

• s:Provide daily leadership, direction, and oversight of MSU, ensuring high-quality patient care and compliance with hospital policies, procedures, and regulatory requirement
• s.Supervise, coach, and mentor staff, fostering professional growth, accountability, and engagemen
• t.Develop staffing schedules and determine appropriate staffing patterns to meet patient care needs, workload demands, and budget expectation
• s.Monitor, analyze, and manage workforce productivity, ensuring appropriate resource allocation and alignment with organizational goal
• s.Collaborate with the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer and HR in recruitment, selection, orientation, and retention of staf
• f.Conduct performance evaluations, provide constructive feedback, and implement corrective actions when necessar
• y.Facilitate staff education, training, and competency assessments; support career advancement and certification opportunitie
• s.Assist with budget preparation, monitoring, and cost-containment strategies while ensuring effective resource utilizatio
• n.Maintain unit readiness for Joint Commission surveys, CMS reviews, and other regulatory audits; ensure staff adherence to accreditation, documentation, and safety standard
• s.Actively support and participate in our designation as a Pathway to Excellence® organization, fostering a healthy work environment, nurse empowerment, and shared decision-makin
• g.Participate in the hospital’s inpatient nursing leadership on-call rotation, providing support and guidance to staff across nursing units outside of regular business hour
• s.Occasionally step into direct staffing roles within MSU 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. Tracking, identifying trends, and improving nurse-sensitive adverse even
• tsCollaborating with other nurse leaders to support optimal staffing, directing Float Pool resources as appropriat
• e.Tracking and collaborating with the Education Department on competency management for MSU staf

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SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILIT

• IESThis position directly supervises the work of othe
• rs.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 procedur

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Qualifications –License, Education and/or Experience Requi

• red:Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) requi
• red.Master’s Degree in Nursing (MSN) prefer
• red.CCRN, PCCN, or similar high acuity certification prefer
• red.Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of Color
• ado.Minimum of three (3) years of leadership experience on MSU or an equivalent combination of education and experie
• nce.Current BLS certification (required prior to employme
• nt).ACLS certification (required prior to employme
• nt).PALS certification (required within 6 months of hi
• re).TNCC or TCAR (required within 6 months of hi
• re).NE-BC within 3 years of hire or when eligibility criteria