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UPMC Unit Director - Intensive Care in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Combine your leadership skills and nursing experience to take the next step of your career! In this role, you will oversee the Neuro ICU/IR and Cardiothoracic ICU. If you're a natural people-person passionate about developing team members and making an impact in the world of emergency nursing, we invite you to join our team today! This position is Monday-Friday, dayshifts.
In this challenging and rewarding position, the Unit Director maintains 24-hour accountability for leading and managing the assigned area to ensure an outstanding experience for patients and employees by continuously improving the quality of patient care, creating a healthy workplace for staff, and overseeing clinical, and administrative/business functions.
This position is eligible for a generous Sign-On Bonus! External applicants will receive $15,000 in exchange for a 2-year work commitment.
About the Neuro & Cardiothoracic ICUs:
T6 Cardiothoracic ICU is an 8-bed unit that serves the adult population requiring a high level of critical care services. This ICU allows the nurse to function in an ICU as well as collaborating with our Intensive Care Team to serve the critically ill patients. This is the ICU of choice for post-operative Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps (IABP), Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), and post-operative management of vascular surgery patients.
T8 Neurology ICU serves the adult population requiring neurological intervention and neurological diagnosis. This unit allows the nurse to function in an ICU as well as the Neuro Interventional Radiology Lab presenting growth and experience opportunities like no other. Nurses are educated to serve these complex patients and work collaboratively with the highly specialized Neuro Intensivist and Neuro Interventionalist.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with medical staff to monitor patient outcomes and set clinical quality priorities. Promote partnership of hospital staff and healthcare team.
Recommend and implement professional improvements and patient safety initiatives.
Analyze nurse and patient satisfaction data and develop action plans as needed. Apply critical thinking skills and use data to develop the department vision and orchestrate complex change.
Build and maintain productive working relationships.
Communicate clearly to engage the audience and help them understand and retain the message.
Coach staff on cultural diversity, address workplace issues, and create an environment that recognizes and values differences.
Apply critical thinking skills and use data to develop the department vision and orchestrate complex change.
Set clinical, financial, and human resources priorities for improvement in line with organizational goals.
Initiate innovation in staff development, clinical orientation, and continuing education. Support Clinicians in their role of oversight of direct reports.
Support shared governance through a unit-based professional practice council.
Minimum of 4 years of progressive leadership experience required with relevant clinical experience preferred.
BS/BSN required at time of hire and master's degree/MSN required.
If BS degree not in nursing, a Master's or higher degree in Nursing is required.
If Master’s degree not in nursing, a BSN is required.
If the Master’s degree/MSN is not present at time of hire, must be enrolled in a Master’s or MSN program within one year of hire/transfer date and completed within three years of enrollment.
The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below.
They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.
Analytical ability necessary to evaluate staff, address and improve clinical issues and devise solutions to complex problems.
Leadership ability to develop staff, establish and maintain standards of performance within a national context for professional nursing practice and comply with administrative requirements.
Superior interpersonal and communication skills sufficient to effectively create relationships to support a healing environment with patients, families, staff, physicians, and hospital personnel including senior management in both written and verbal communication.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in practicing state.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Emergency Neurological Life Support
National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification
Registered Nurse (RN)
Act 34
*Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran