Location Address:
1100 Central Ave SE Albuquerque, NM 87106-4930
Compensation Pay Range:
Minimum Offer $0.00 Maximum Offer $0.00
Summary:
Under the direction of the Nursing Director, works with the Department RN Manager in planning, implementing and coordinating the operational, financial and personnel activities of the designated area(s). Provides clinical and operational leadership for assigned unit(s) which includes hands-on unit presence and direction in facilitating provision of patient care and achieving organizational outcomes. How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.
- Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
- Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
- Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
- Malpractice liability insurance
- Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
- EPIC electronic charting system
Type of Opportunity: Full time FTE: 1.00 Job Exempt: Yes Work Shift: Varied Days and Hours (United States of America)
Responsibilities:
Leadership Competencies A. Leads Self: Foundational knowledge of the master competencies B. Leads Team: Ability to manage and direct team and unit operations C. Leads PHS: Ability to achieve results a. Performance Dimensions i. Managing the Business
- Clinical practice knowledge: Subject matter expert in the service area. Guides, mentors, provides support, holds staff accountable to care processes supporting clinical care practice in service area(s).
- Human resources: Contributes to the recruitment, interviewing, selection of potential candidates.
- Orientation of new staff: Participates in driving the orientation process including the selection of preceptors, monitoring, and analysis of processes to attain the desired outcomes of orientation processes and retention of new hires.
- Labor Laws: Provides an on-going presence to facilitate and drive an environment that maintains compliance with state and federal labor laws.
- Process Improvement: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care to achieve quality indicators/targets, utilization of performance tools to improve processes and outcomes, optimizing patient safety, optimizes communication between all work groups, and hardwires processes to support continuous regulatory readiness, monitoring.
- Foundational thinking: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care to support integration of work models and evidence-based practice to the bedside.
- Technology: Proficient in using computer based skills/applications, clinical based technologies supporting patient care including electronic medical record, medication management. Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care integrates technology into patient care processes. Acts as a super-user to support deployment and integration of health care technologies into patient care practices.
- Strategic management: Contributes to and drives work plans at the point of care to achieve optimal patient care and organizational results to the point of care, written reports of outcomes, presentation to key business audiences.
- Financial management: Contributes to the oversight of the financial components of unit operations including budget creation, monitoring, analyzing, report variances. Leads efforts to align staffing and facilitates throughput with unit/organizational care needs with attention to productivity and budget targets. ii. Leading People
- Human resource leadership skills: Under the direction of the Nursing Director, works with the Department RN Manager in contributing to the monitoring or staff, preparing staff performance reviews including evaluations, goal setting, and development plans. Contributes to achieving staff engagement and satisfaction targets. Actively involved in mentoring to increase staff competency and level of care. Participation in succession planning; models professional standards and behaviors at the point of care
- Relationship management: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care by applying communication skills that optimize active listening, inquiry; use effective dialogue, conflict management techniques, negotiation, and mediation skills.
- Diversity: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care to maintain an environment that upholds the cultural/population specific standards for those served; maintains an environment that upholds a diverse workforce.
- Shared decision making: Supports the process of shared governance and shared decision-making. iii. Professionalism
- Professional and personal accountability: Role models the value of continuous learning including academic advancement, continuing education, and maintains currency on current care practices. Actively involved in performing annual self-assessment and on-going development action plan.
- Career Planning: Assesses career planning/goals and develops/implements continuous learning and activities to support goal path.
- Personal Journey: Actively reflects on continuous learning activities, utilizes action-learning techniques to identify and act on areas of strength and opportunities.
- Reflective Practice: Incorporates and role models integrity, ability to maneuver ambiguity, seeks and acts on the potential within self and others, supports and fosters C.A.R.E.S. behaviors, supports a just culture. iv. C.A.R.E.S. Behaviors: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care and supports, fosters, and holds self and staff answerable to C.A. R. E.S. behaviors (Continuous learning, accountability, respect/respond, environmental safety, and superior outcomes). v. Professional Practice Model: Synergy
- Synergy Model: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care to manages and drive staff performance and accountabilities to incorporate (1) Clinical judgment and action, (2) Patient advocacy, (3) Caring practices, (4) Collaboration within the interprofessional team, (5) Systems thinking, (6) Response to diversity, (7) Facilitation of learning, and (8) Clinical Inquiry.
Professional Requirements:
- Maintains current professional licensure
- Educational Requirements a. BSN
- Professional emergency response training requirements as specified by service area a. CDS Inpatient i. Current BLS required ii. Additional Requirements based upon area of service
- Progressive Care: Current ACLS required
- Adult Intensive Care: Current ACLS required
- Adult Cardiac Critical Care: Current ACLS required
- Emergency Department: Current ACLS/PALS required
- Pediatrics: Current PALS required
- Pediatric Heme/Onc: Current PALS required
- PICU: Current PALS required
- Newborn Nursery: Current NRP required
- NICU: Current NRP required
- Family Birthing Center: Current NRP/Fetal monitoring required; permanent charge ACLS required
- Mother-Baby Care-Current NRP required
- Operating Room: Current ACLS, PALS required
- PACU: Current ACLS, PALS required
b. CDS Outpatient i. Primary care clinics: Current BLS required ii. Specialty care clinics: Current BLS required, Chemotherapy certification required in Oncology iii. Urgent Care: Current BLS required iv. Pediatric Urgent Care: Current BLS/PALS required c. Regional Critical Access Hospitals i. Medical- Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. iii. Emergency Department: BLS/ACLS/PALS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/NRP/fetal monitoring required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. v. Operating Room: Current ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. d. Regional Non-Critical Access Hospital i. Medical- Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. iii. Emergency Department: Current PALS (PRMC), ACLS/TNCC (Espanola)/ENPC (Espanola) required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/ NRP/STABLE required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. v. Operating Room: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. vi. Day Surgery: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care. e. Home Care/Hospice i. Home care: Current BLS required ii. Hospice: Current BLS required iii. Inpatient Hospice: Current BLS required
Qualifications:
Other information:
Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License or Graduate Nurse Permit required *BLS required.
Academic Preparation:
*BSN required *Degree from accredited academic nursing program (If a program is under conditional status, approval may be granted by system CNO)
UPDATED: 3/1/26
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