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Posted: 02-Apr-26

Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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Healthcare
Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 272017

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Nurse Manager for the Inpatient, Crisis and Acute Psychiatric Services within Rutgers Behavioral Health Care.
The Nurse Manager provides nursing services and participates in the delivery of individualized, goal directed nursing care through the use of the nursing process in accordance with the departmental and hospital policies and procedures and all regulatory requirements. The Nurse Manager functions as a member of the interdisciplinary team; participates in quality improvement activities, educational activities and supports research endeavors. The role is consistent with the scope and standards outlined by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:

• Oversees and has accountability for staffing, scheduling and budgeting within 24-hour per day/7 day-day per week environments, inclusive of 79 inpatient beds (including 15 involuntary beds). Responsible for managing 24/7 programming for nursing services within Inpatient Services, Crisis Services, Acute Psychiatric Services, and the Children's Transitional Residence.
• Creates and maintains a high performance environment characterized by positive leadership and a strong team orientation.
• Assesses and evaluates staffing patterns for proper utilization of personnel in relation to patient needs in assigned units, and prepares appropriate work schedules.
• Supervises nursing staff in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating delivery of patient care and assists multidisciplinary treatment teams in communicating and coordinating patient care.
• Manages human resource and employee relation functions.
• Develops and implements unit nursing policies/procedures.
• Participates in development of departmental policies/procedures.
• Participates in development of operating and personnel services budgets.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
• Five (5) years of progressively more responsible nursing experience with a minimum of two (2) years of supervisory/management nursing experience.

City: Newark

State: NJ

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Position requires standing 2/3 of the time, walking 2/3 of the time, requires sitting 1/3 of the time, use of hands to finger, handle or feel 2/3 of the time, reach with hands and arms, 1/3 of the time, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl 1/3 of the time, talk or hear over 2/3 of the time.
• Manual dexterity and intermittent physical exertion when performing job activities.
• Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic).
• Subject to unpredictable situations, patient crises, both medical and psychiatric.
• Occasionally exposed to patients exhibiting assaultive behaviors.
• Exposure to bloodborne pathogens that requires use of personal protective equipment.
• May be exposed to varying or extreme temperatures.

Posting Number: 26ST0633

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About Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national public research university and the state's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Rutgers is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities. As it was at our founding in 1766, the heart of our mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. Rutgers is New Jersey's land-grant institution and one of the nation's foremost research universities, and as such, we educate, make discoveries, serve as an engine of economic growth, and generate ideas for improving people's lives.
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