Nurse Manager Critical Care (RN)

Heartline Staffing, Strategic Talent Partners with Purple Cow Recruiting, is seeking an experienced Nurse Manager – Critical Care (RN) for a permanent leadership opportunity in Sanford, Florida.

This role provides leadership, accountability, and operational oversight for critical care services, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centered care across assigned units. The Nurse Manager supports a culture of collaboration, performance improvement, and service excellence while maintaining compliance with all regulatory and accrediting requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 leadership accountability for patient care delivery across assigned critical care units.

• Ensure nursing practice standards, policies, and procedures meet legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.

• Lead interdisciplinary collaboration to support continuity of care and optimal patient outcomes.

• Develop, implement, and monitor quality improvement initiatives focused on patient safety, clinical outcomes, and service excellence.

• Coordinate patient care across departments and services throughout the hospital.

• Ensure appropriate equipment, supplies, and resources are available to support high-quality care delivery.

• Participate in patient rounding and proactively address patient and family needs.

• Promote a patient-centered, quiet healing environment.

• Support effective discharge planning in collaboration with physicians and case management.

• Foster strong communication with patients, families, physicians, and interdisciplinary team members.

• Ensure effective pain management practices are implemented and maintained within assigned units.

Department Scope

• Oversight of ICU and Progressive Care Unit (PCU)

• Total bed count: approximately 31 beds

• Oversees approximately 48 FTEs

Compensation

Annual Salary Range (Based on Experience)

• $79,000 (minimum)

• $98,000 (mid-range, approximately 10 years of experience)

• $110,000 (15+ years of experience)

Additional Information

• Relocation assistance available on a case-by-case basis

• Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) license.

• Registered Nurse Diploma or Associate Degree required.

• Minimum of 3 years of recent (within the last year) acute care leadership experience in an ICU setting.

• NIH Stroke Scale certification required within 30 days of employment start date.

• Basic Life Support (BLS/BCLS) certification required within 30 days of employment start date.

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification required within 6 months of employment start date.

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) certification required within 6 months of employment start date.

• Strong leadership, communication, and critical care management skills.

• Ability to respond to operational needs outside standard business hours as required.

Heartline Staffing is a Strategic Talent Partner with Purple Cow Recruiting. Applications are securely processed through Purple Cow’s system.