Nurse Management Opportunities
With so many less experienced nurses entering the marketplace, critical care
nurses who know how to provide top-tier service and have excellent people
skills are at a premium. These individuals have great opportunities to move up
to nursing management roles or become critical care educators.
Hospitals will often subsidize these transitions in order to retain a valued
employee’s services. The hospital benefits from keeping skills and
experience in-house, and the employee gets to tackle new challenges.
Upward mobility and nursing management job opportunities within the critical
care specialty can take many different forms:
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Floor supervisor
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Director/supervisor of nursing
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Case manager
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Unit manager
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Clinical manager
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Utilization review manager
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Training and education
In addition, nursing knowledge and skills are transferable to a wide range of
hospital administrative and nursing management needs. Many nurses transition to
new roles in Human Resources, Finance or Operations. Other nursing management
job opportunities include labor relations (including leadership roles within
unions), healthcare and public health consulting, and a variety of roles within
the insurance industry.
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