Nurse Unit Manager
Supervise and manage a nursing team.
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- What's it like to be a Nurse Unit Manager?
- How to become a Nurse Unit Manager
- Latest Nurse Unit Manager jobs
- Top skills and experience for Nurse Unit Managers
- Is Nurse Unit Manager the right role for you?
- Nurse Unit Manager role reviews
What's it like to be a Nurse Unit Manager?
A Nurse Unit Manager supervises and manages a nursing team. Nurse Unit Managers can be found in hospitals, aged care facilities or in outpatient clinics. Their elevated decision-making responsibilities require Nurse Unit Managers to undertake reporting and financial tasks on top of their healthcare duties.
Tasks and duties
- Developing and implementing care policies.
- Coordinating staffing rosters to ensure adequate nursing care is available to all patients.
- Recruiting new staff.
- Managing budgets to ensure adequate funding for their team.
- Managing and evaluating nursing staff to provide development feedback and plan career progression.
- Working closely and forming partnerships with an interdisciplinary medical team, including doctors, specialists, therapists and other Nurse Unit Managers.
- Staying across nursing and healthcare developments and policies to deliver best practice care.
How to become a Nurse Unit Manager
To become a Nurse Unit Manager, you’ll need to have worked as a Registered Nurse. To work as a Registered Nurse, you’ll need to have completed a bachelor degree in a nursing-related field.
- Complete a Bachelor of Nursing or Bachelor of Science (majoring in Nursing). These courses will take 3 years to complete full-time, and you’ll need to have an ATAR that qualifies you for admission or to apply for special entry.
- Alternatively, for students with previous tertiary qualifications in a different field, complete a two-year Master of Nursing (Graduate Entry) program. This will qualify you to work as a Registered Nurse and eventually a Nurse Unit Manager.
- Nurse Unit Managers must apply to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). Registration must be renewed annually.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Nurse Unit Manager employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Nursing
AHPRA Registration
Patient Care
Nursing Practice
Midwifery
Quality Improvement
Clinical Practice
Infectious Diseases
Leadership
Person Centred Care
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Latest Nurse Unit Manager reviews
Aug 2019
If my leadership supports my team & clients to have a better day then I'm doing it right
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Nursing
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
SpecialisationNursing
The good thingsIt gives me a chance to place my specific passions into my role whilst working alongside a dedicated team & clientele
The challengesTeam management is a struggle at first, realising that at times your team won't always be happy with your choices but having support from higher management helps
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Aug 2019
I’ve done many things in my working career but nursing as a manager has proved the most satisfying
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Nursing
Experience5 – 9 years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationNursing
The good thingsI care and I get paid to care.
As a NUM you are able to work at a level that allows both provision of patient care and people and business management almost, to a perfect balance.
The challengesShift workers are fickle people. Finding a way to help your team establish a work life balance is sometimes very challenging while trying to maintain a roster.
Patient and family expectation can also...
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