Job Details: Manager, Nursing Unit-Adult ED

Description: WakeMed--employing the best minds and biggest hearts in the business.
Manager, Nursing Unit - Adult Emergency Department

If you would like to explore a new professional challenge, WakeMed Health & Hospitals, located in Raleigh, NC, is seeking a talented Manager, Nursing Unit - Adult Emergency Department.

The Manager, Nursing Unit - Adult Emergency Department is responsible for the planning, facilitating, coordinating, and evaluating of patient care services, personnel, and budgeting of the nursing unit.

A Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, previous management experience, unit-specific nursing experience, and licensure as a RN in NC required; Master's degree, and prior Emergency Services management experience within a high acuity and high volume department preferred; Requires frequent standing, lifting, and ability to provide patient care.

WakeMed Health & Hospitals is an 870+-bed private, not-for-profit health care system based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our system includes a network of health care facilities located throughout the Triangle area. WakeMed's specialty service areas include cardiac care, women's and children's services, physical rehabilitation, emergency and trauma, orthopaedics, neurosciences and home care.

Why choose WakeMed Health & Hospitals? In addition to our unique employee culture and outstanding work environment, WakeMed offers a variety of valuable benefits to our employees, including:
WakeShare, an innovative gain-sharing program based on organizational performance that rewards employees with a bonus of up to six percent of their annual salary
KidWorks, WakeMed Health & Hospitals' five-star rated child care facility
Healthworks, WakeMed Health & Hospitals' on-site fitness center
Life insurance
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Short and long-term disability
Paid vacation and sick leave
Cash balance pension plan
Retirement savings plan [403 (b)] with employer matching
Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
Onsite credit union
Tuition reimbursement program
Employee assistance program

WakeMed Health & Hospitals is the region's preferred health care system, providing high quality patient care and technological leadership. Our physicians, employees and volunteers represent the best minds and biggest hearts in the business. WakeMed Health & Hospitals provides the full spectrum of health services, from prevention, education, primary and acute care to specialty care, tertiary care, physical rehabilitation and home health.

Our Centers of Excellence include:
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Heart Center is one of the busiest cardiac care facilities in North Carolina. The area's premier heart center features education, prevention, diagnosis, intervention, surgery, cardiac rehab and physician offices all under one roof.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Children's Center features the state's first freestanding children's emergency department, as well as Wake County's only dedicated pediatrics unit and only pediatric ICU staffed 24-7 by pediatric intensivists.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Rehabilitation specializes in helping patients regain their independence following physical trauma, surgery, stroke or illness. The area's only inpatient rehab hospital is supported by outpatient and day treatment centers throughout the region.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Emergency/Trauma Care features a state-of-the-art trauma center and three full-service adult emergency departments.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Women's Pavilion & Birthplace offers two locations, one in Raleigh and the other in Cary. Between the two, WakeMed delivers more babies than any other health care provider in Wake County
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Mobile Critical Care Services is staffed by specially trained paramedics and nurses. These critical care units on wheels transport trauma, cardiac, neonatal and other seriously ill patients, and handle over 1,200 transports to and from WakeMed Health & Hospitals facilities and other hospitals throughout the region.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Orthopaedics offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient orthopaedic services. From surgery and joint replacement to sports medicine, rehabilitation and physical therapy, WakeMed Health & Hospitals orthopaedists use the very latest technology and equipment to diagnose and treat thousands of patients a year.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Neurosciences is home to Wake County's only neuro intensive care unit and neuro care inpatient unit. Here, WakeMed Health & Hospitals offers a comprehensive continuum of care for trauma, stroke and neurologically impaired patients. 24-hour availability of neurosurgeons and neurologists, as well as physical rehabilitation specialists, a neuro pathologist and a neuro radiologist set WakeMed Health & Hospitals apart in this highly specialized area.

WakeMed Health & Hospitals provide an inclusive work environment that promotes the valuing of differences, respect for everyone and cooperativeness among our diverse workforce.

EEO/ Drug-Free and Smoke-Free Workplace
Patrick Turner
pturner@wakemed.org

Posting Date: Oct 3 08