
Critical Care Nurse Manager
Houston, TXJob$56.13–83.49/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Nursing Manager leads and mentors Registered Nurses, oversees clinical operations, and advocates for patient and team needs while supporting professional development and unit goals. The role supports nursing program development and implementation, staff leadership development, shared governance, problem-solving, communication, employee orientation, and monthly unit council meetings. The posting requires a nursing degree and leadership experience, along with Texas RN registration and Basic Life Support.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Nursing Manager, you will be a dynamic leader, guiding and empowering our nursing team to deliver exceptional, patient-centered care through continuous growth and operational excellence.
Every day, you will lead and mentor Registered Nurses, oversee clinical operations, and advocate for patient and team needs, driving professional development and achieving unit goals.
To be successful in this role, you will embody accountability and confidence with superior communication skills for all interactions. You'll skillfully navigate challenges, ensuring individual performance and overall unit success.
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Support and actualizes the Division of Nursing philosophy and goals by assuming leadership in program development and implementation.
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Staff is developed to assume leadership roles both formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation in shared governance structure.
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Facilitates development and implementation to solution to problems.
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Develops and Implements effective communication channels to provide information to all staff members, holding at least one unit meeting per month with posting of minutes and notice.
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Directs and Participates in the orientation of new employees, evaluates programs effecting employees. 6.Has an identified council structure with an elected Staff Nurse Professional Practice Council
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representative. Conducts unit council meetings monthly incorporating new knowledge and skills to meet changing needs of patient families, department employees and institution.
Job Requirements
Required
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Bachelors Of Science Nursing and 3 years leadership experience, upon hire or
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Masters Other, upon hire and
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Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire and
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Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days
Preferred
- clinical leadership in the discipline
BSL-CCMgr
Where You'll Work
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education.
Pay Range
$56.13 - $83.49 /hour
We are an equal opportunity employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,171 open Nurse Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$56.13–83.49/hr
- US median$42–64/hr206 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $69.81/hr, is 34% above the US median midpoint ($52/hr) — in the top quarter of Nurse Manager hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 115 open Nurse Manager jobs in Texas and 1,171 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- HCA Healthcare72 open
- Texas Health Resources7 open
- Baylor Scott & White Health5 open
- 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 (931 postings).
- Education
- 622 of the 1,171 open Nurse Manager jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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