RN NICU Manager

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• Facility: Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Hillcrest
• Location: Waco, TX
• Department: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
• Job Title: RN Nurse Manager
• Status: Full Time
• Unit Specifics
  • Patient Population: Neonates of all gestational ages.
  • # of Beds: 30

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Hillcrest is a full-service, fully-accredited not‑for‑profit hospital serving the residents of McLennan County and the surrounding Central Texas region. Baylor Scott & White – Hillcrest is focused on being the best place to give and receive safe, quality, compassionate healthcare.

The 260‑bed hospital offers advanced medical services that include trauma and acute care, orthopedics and sports medicine, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit and the most comprehensive freestanding cancer center in the region.

The NICU at Baylor Scott and White‑Hillcrest is the only hospital in Waco with a Level III designation. Our 30‑bed NICU in Waco is designed to promote optimal developmental care for sick infants and the resources and support needed for a child’s stay in the NICU. This is a hospital that works for you and exceeds all expectations!

The Manager, Nursing (RN) is responsible for creating and sustaining a healthy work environment for assigned nursing and unit‑based personnel. This includes fostering excellent professional nursing practice, shared decision‑making, interprofessional teamwork and collaboration, and a safe and caring environment for patients, families and staff. The manager plans, develops, implements, evaluates and monitors policies and procedures, budgets, resource allocation, continuous quality and performance improvement initiatives, educational programs and shared governance councils to achieve departmental and organizational goals and objectives.

Nursing care is provided as needed.

• Professional Practice Environment: Develops and articulates a vision for nursing practice. Engages supervisors and staff in the development and implementation of departmental goals and objectives. Creates, fosters and sustains a healthy work environment through shared governance structures and processes which support evidence‑based nursing practice and research. Facilitates the professional development of staff through role modeling, teaching and coaching/mentoring. Ensures competency and keeps staff informed of new regulations and policies.
• Quality, Evidence‑Based Practice and Research: Maintains knowledge of evidence‑based clinical and leadership practices, nursing research findings, patient care delivery models and work redesign. Identifies, plans, implements, evaluates and monitors quality/performance improvement initiatives. Analyzes indicators and facilitates practice changes.
• Caring Practices / Service Excellence: Creates and sustains a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment. Analyzes departmental data and implements changes to improve outcomes. Champions service excellence initiatives and develops the department’s succession plan.
• Diversity: Identifies issues arising from individual differences and develops awareness. Provides age‑specific and developmentally appropriate patient care. Resolves conflicts that affect performance or the work environment.
• Advocacy and Moral Agency: Advocates on behalf of the nursing staff to represent concerns. Fosters an ethical practice environment and resolves ethical and clinical concerns. Promotes health care at local, state and national levels.
• Facilitation of Learning: Monitors learning needs and assists in design and evaluation of educational opportunities for staff and families.
• Collaboration: Models, teaches and mentors professional leadership. Leads and participates in departmental and system‑wide programs, committees and projects. Collaborates with medical, allied health and administrative staff.
• Systems Thinking: Integrates knowledge of organizational mission, goals and systems into staff and patient strategies. Prioritizes competing demands and redesigns systems to meet needs.
• Professionalism: Improves…