Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
Schedule: Full-Time – Days – No Weekends
Compensation: USD $51.17 - $76.75 hourly (based on years of experience)
Sign-On Bonus: Up To $20,000
Department Snapshot: Emergency Department | # of Beds: 41 Wall Beds & 16 Hallway | Amount of FTEs: 35
Overview
This role provides operational and clinical leadership for a high-volume Emergency Department, ensuring safe, efficient, and patient-centered care. The Nurse Manager collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary partners to drive quality, throughput, staff engagement, and regulatory compliance while maintaining fiscal stewardship.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop ED staff, including supervisors and charge nurses; oversee hiring, onboarding, scheduling, coaching, and performance management.
- Prepare, manage, and monitor departmental budgets; optimize staffing and resource utilization to meet operational targets.
- Build and maintain strong physician relationships; partner on clinical standards, patient flow, and service line initiatives.
- Resolve operational and patient care issues promptly; ensure appropriate escalation, documentation, and follow-up.
- Demonstrate knowledge of quality improvement; track metrics (e.g., door-to-provider, LWBS, safety events) and implement sustainable improvements.
- Coordinate a multidisciplinary team to support excellent patient experience, safety, and evidence-based practice.
- Ensure compliance with applicable accreditation, regulatory, and organizational policies; support survey readiness.
- Perform diversified duties under time limitations with a high degree of accuracy and sound judgment.
Requirements
- ED experience is required.
- Five years of recent progressive management experience to include: management of staff (including supervisory positions), budget preparation, physician relationship management, resolution of operational and patient care issues, demonstrated knowledge of quality improvement, and coordination of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Active, unencumbered RN license (Texas or eligible for licensure in Texas).
- BLS required; ACLS required; additional emergency/trauma certifications (e.g., PALS, TNCC) preferred.
- Strong communication, conflict resolution, and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Ability to meet physical and clinical requirements consistent with an acute care Emergency Department environment.
- BSN required; MSN or leadership-focused graduate degree preferred.
- Prior ED leadership in a comparable acute care setting.