ICU Nurse Manager
Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital
Chicago, ILFull-time$96–140K/yrPosted 4 days agoStill listed 3 days ago
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Job overview
Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital seeks a Nurse Manager to lead its ICU and Critical Care services. The role oversees daily operations, clinical quality, patient outcomes, regulatory compliance, and staff development in a high-acuity environment. The manager supervises patient-care delivery and personnel, develops departmental plans, and works with staff, physicians, and administration. Critical-care team management experience in an acute-care hospital is strongly preferred.
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Overview
Department: ICU Intensive Care Unit
Schedule: Full-Time, Exempt Day
Hospital: St. Mary of Nazareth
Location: Chicago, IL 60622
Salary: $96,428.80 to $139,692.80
What we are looking for:
Seeking a dynamic and experienced Nurse Manager to lead our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Critical Care services at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital. This leader will be responsible for overseeing daily operations, clinical quality, patient outcomes, regulatory compliance, and staff development within a high-acuity critical care environment. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, a passion for team engagement, and a proven track record of driving clinical excellence, patient safety, and operational performance. Experience managing critical care teams in an acute care hospital setting is strongly preferred.
Key Highlights:
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Lead a dedicated team of ICU and Critical Care professionals.
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Drive quality, patient safety, and evidence-based practice initiatives.
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Foster employee engagement, retention, and professional development
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Partner with physicians and interdisciplinary teams to deliver exceptional patient care.
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Oversee staffing, budgeting, performance management, and departmental operations.
Responsibilities
The Manager of ICU is a Registered Nurse who assumes 24-hour administrative responsibility for the management of all critical care nursing service functions. Supervises, assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the delivery of patient care. Develops and implements departmental plans, including performance improvement activities and compliance with current regulations. Supervises and evaluates all personnel assigned to the unit and effectively utilizes nursing personnel, time responsibilities for the unit and is directly accountable to the CNO/DON. Communicates effectively with staff, physicians and administration both written and verbally. Consults with staff, physicians and Nurse Executive on nursing issues and interpretation of hospital policies to ensure patient needs are met.
Qualifications
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING
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Must have a current and valid state license as a Registered Nurse.
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BLS (AHA) upon hire and maintain current.3. A minimum of two years supervisory/management experience necessary.4. Minimum of three years of continuous clinical experience in a clinical/acute care setting.5. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) (AHA) upon hire and maintain current.
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), required for all hires after 1/11/2021.
Pay Transparency
Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that provides employees the flexibility to tailor benefits according to their individual needs. Our Total Rewards package includes, but is not limited to, paid time off, a 401K retirement plan, medical, dental, and vision coverage, tuition reimbursement, and many more voluntary benefit options. A reasonable compensation estimate for this role, which includes estimated wages, benefits, and other forms of compensation, is $96,428.80 to $139,692.80 on an annualized basis. The exact starting compensation to be offered will be determined at the time of selecting an applicant for hire, in which a wide range of factors will be considered, including but not limited to, skillset, years of applicable experience, education, credentials and licensure.
The company is dedicated to empowering its staff with a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, allowing them the freedom to customize their benefits to fit their unique needs. Our abundant resources, programs, and voluntary options serve as a foundation for individual growth and well-being. Learn more here: https://www.primehealthcare.com/benefitsthatmattermost/
Employment Status Full Time Shift Days Equal Employment Opportunity
Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf #LI-RT1#ICU
How this job compares
Set against the 1,190 open Nurse Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$96–140K/yr
- Illinois median$90–140K/yr23 salary ranges
- US median$96–148K/yr371 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $118K, is close to the Illinois median midpoint ($118K) — in the middle half of Nurse Manager salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 30 open Nurse Manager jobs in Illinois and 1,190 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Prime Healthcare8 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Nurse Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (928 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 627 of the 1,190 open Nurse Manager jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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