Work schedule: Monday-Friday – additional coverage as needed.
As the Emergency Room Nurse Manager at HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake, you will lead a high-volume, dynamic environment that features a comprehensive Level II Trauma Center, a dedicated Pediatric Emergency Center, and Level III emergency care. To support these exceptional emergency services, our department is fully integrated with board-certified trauma surgeons, specialized neurosurgeons, trauma-trained staff, three designated trauma rooms, an on-site critical care unit, and a dedicated operating room specifically for trauma surgery. This service line also includes management and coordination support for several regional, full-service freestanding departments, including HCA Houston ER 24/7 locations in Alvin, Friendswood, Pearland, and Texas City, which provide direct admission pathways to our main acute care facility. Demonstrating an unyielding commitment to clinical excellence, our emergency care and closely integrated service lines have achieved numerous prestigious awards, including being named an Accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI by the American College of Cardiology, receiving the Critical Care Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades, and earning Healthgrades Five-Star ratings for the treatment of respiratory failure, sepsis, heart attacks, and diabetic emergencies.
Job Summary and Qualifications
As a Nurse Manager RN - ICU Critical Care, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
What you will do in this role:
- Upholds Organizational Alignment: Drives NCMC mission, nursing standards, patient satisfaction, and Studer Concepts across assigned units.
- Executes Strategic Goal-Setting: Develops four unit-specific goals aligned with the organization and documents progress for leadership.
- Empowers Staff Autonomy: Encourages frontline staff to develop evidence-based practices and participate actively in department councils.
- Maintains Consistent Communication: Conducts ten monthly staff meetings annually and shares detailed updates via minutes and memos.
- Optimizes Fiscal Resources: Prepares and manages expense, personnel, capital, and supply budgets using advanced information systems.
- Balances Workforce Staffing: Controls overtime, PTO, and Nursing Hours per Patient Day to deliver cost-efficient, quality care.
What qualifications you will need:
- Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree registered nursing program.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.
- Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- Emergency Nurse Pediatric Cour must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
- NIH Stroke Scale must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
- PALS Pediatric Adv Life Supt must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
- Trauma Nursing Core Course must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
- 5 years of ER experience highly desired
- 1 year of previous Leadership experience in a hospital/healthcare environment required.
Benefits
HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake is a 530+ bed hospital where sophisticated, world-class medicine meets the comfort, care and convenience of a community hospital. For more than 40 years, we have proudly been providing high quality, cost-effective, comprehensive healthcare to the Houston Bay Area. We opened our doors in 1972 and now employ 2,000+ staff members and 900+ physicians in a wide range of specialties. Our specialists offer more talent and experience than any other hospital in the region. We are a Level II Trauma Center and the only exclusive heart hospital south of Houston. Our accredited center provides nationally-recognized care in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cardiovascular diseases. HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake offers a variety of other services, including Woman Services, Pediatric Care, Breast Diagnostic Center, ACR-accredited Imaging Center, Wound Care Treatment Center featuring Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, and much more. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
Be a part of an organization that leverages our size to make a real impact in our industry! Our Talent Acquisition team is reviewing applications for our Nurse Manager RN - Emergency Room ER opening. Submit your application today and help advance the practice of nursing.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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