Job Summary

The Pediatric Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (PCTU) is a 20-bed tertiary care center receiving patients from state, regional, national, and international referrals. PCTU specializes in the medical and surgical care of infants, children, adolescents, and adults with congenital and acquired heart disease. Our goal is to provide exemplary nursing care embracing a philosophy of family-centered care, empowering families to participate in the decision-making and care of their children. 
The Pediatric Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit nurse cares for patients in a technology-intensive environment, including ECMO, CRRT, and Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs). They are required to perform complex physiologic patient assessments in a high-intensity environment for high-acuity patients with rapidly changing statuses. Our patients undergo the most progressive surgical and catheterization interventions. Our nursing staff practice in close partnership with the cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, and fellows providing individual support and education to families and patients throughout their intensive care unit admission.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement unit goals and objectives, including establishing practice standards in patient care consistent with national professional and regulatory guidelines.
• Integrate unit goals and objectives with Nursing Service goals and objectives. Advise and assist with the establishment of priorities and institutional program development.
• Work closely with medical staff and other disciplines to successfully implement patient, unit, and institutional objectives. Assist in the resolution of interdisciplinary operating problems.
• Supervise operations of the unit. Establish minimum/maximum staffing patterns to ensure quality patient care. Initiate and implement a staffing schedule that is consistent with care requirements and responds to varying patient activity and patient mix.
• Identify and recommend specific staffing needs and position qualifications consistent with the respective unit objectives and patient case mix.
• Interview and select qualified personnel.
• Evaluate the performance of nursing staff responsible for unit patient care. Make recommendations for merit awards and personnel classification changes. Counsel and discipline nursing staff to achieve unit and institutional objectives, particularly related to high-quality patient care.
• Interpret and implement University and hospital personnel policies and programs and ensure their uniform and correct application.
• Project and monitor personnel budget for the patient care unit. Provide information regarding budget variances to the Associate Chief Nursing Officer.  
• Collaborate and coordinate with other disciplines to plan, evaluate, and implement the commodity budget for the patient care unit.
• Initiate and implement in-service guidelines for unit-level orientation and staff development. Encourage and provide opportunities for continuing education of the nursing staff.
• Initiate, plan, analyze, and participate in Nursing staff development programs and workshops.
• Participate in a concurrent and retrospective evaluation of patient care consistent with the hospital quality assurance program. Through this review process, evaluate and recommend changes and improvements in areas affecting the quality of patient care.
• Establish guidelines with the nursing faculty that support the institutional goal of providing the primary clinical environment for nursing students. Facilitate, coordinate, and monitor the clinical experience of nursing and other students.
• Initiate and cooperate in the applied research in health care in keeping with the institutional objectives of maintaining prominence in developing new modes of clinical practice.
• Formulate professional goals and prepare an annual self-evaluation for the Associate Chief Nursing Officer.
• Utilize both leadership and management skills, including personnel management and the ability to perform as a role model for nursing staff.
• Utilize excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborate in a manner that fosters team building and to provides visionary direction for team members.  
• Work effectively with administrators, physicians, peers, and subordinates.  
• Utilize the change management process. 
• Implement initiatives that positively impact patient care.

Reporting Relationship:  
The 10W PCTU Clinical Nursing Director reports to the Associate Chief Nursing Officer for C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital.

Work Schedule

Hours: 40 hours/week; FLSA Status: Exempt
Shift: Shift and hours will vary based on unit needs
Location: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital; 10-West Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (PCTU) C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Website

Required Qualifications

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.  
• Master's degree in Nursing or Health Care Administration, Public Health, Business or related field (a Juris Doctor degree may be considered). If Master's degree is not in Nursing, a Bachelor's degree in Nursing is required.
• Two (2) years recent leadership experience, to include demonstrated leadership, management, communication, counseling, problem solving, decision making, conflict resolution and group process skills
• Minimum of five (5) years of nursing experience with demonstration of progressive clinical competence
• Nurse Leadership certification or completion within two (2) years of accepting this position or when eligible to certify, whichever comes first.  Certification is expected to be maintained while in this leadership role.  Examples include Certified Nurse Manager and Leader (CNML) or, Nurse Executive (NE-BC).  Certifications must be recognized by the Magnet Recognition Program and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).  See full list here 

Desired Qualifications

• Two (2) years of recent supervisory experience in a pediatric or intensive care setting. 
• Experience as a nurse manager/director in pediatrics and/or ICU. 
• Recent experience in nursing management in a tertiary care setting, desired
• Minimum of five (5) years of RN experience with demonstration of progressive clinical competence in pediatric cardiovascular disease management 
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills, including personnel management and the ability to perform as a role model for Nursing Staff. 
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate in a manner that fosters team building and provides visionary direction for team members
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with administrators, physicians, peers, and subordinates. 
• Experience with change management process required
• Experience with Interest-based problem-solving and negotiations
• Familiarity with the continuous quality improvement process

About University of Michigan Health

Michigan Medicine, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is part of one of the world’s leading universities.Michigan Medicine is a premier, highly ranked academic medical center and award-winning health care system with state-of-the-art facilities. Our vision is to create the future of health care through scientific discovery, innovations in education, and the most effective and compassionate care. We want to be the leader in health care, health care reform, and biomedical innovation.Michigan Medicine includes the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers; the U-M Medical School and its Faculty Group Practice; one of the nation's largest biomedical research communities; and education programs that train thousands of future health professionals and scientists each year. We were formerly known as the University of Michigan Medical Center; today that term applies generally to the collection of buildings on our main medical campus in Ann Arbor. We have a close partnership with the U-M School of Nursing and other health sciences schools at U-M. Through the Michigan Health Corporation, we are able to form partnerships outside of our University.

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