ICU Nurse Manager — Lead Critical Care Excellence in Big Sky Country

The ICU Nurse Manager role invites you to lead an intensive care unit where innovation meets compassion and every decision elevates patient care. As an ICU Nurse Manager, you will guide a purposeful team, inspire clinical excellence, and create momentum in a setting that celebrates growth, collaboration, and results.

The ICU Nurse Manager will join an organization that is nationally recognized for quality, safety, and patient experience, with a culture that champions shared governance and professional advancement across the intensive care unit and the wider hospital. As an ICU Nurse Manager, you will work with advanced electronic health records, real time analytics, tele ICU connectivity, point of care ultrasound, and smart infusion platforms that support an agile intensive care unit focused on evidence based practice. With strong community support, meaningful philanthropy, and a history of clinical achievement, the ICU Nurse Manager will thrive in a mission driven environment that invests in people and fosters excellence.

Within a highly coordinated Intensive Care Unit, the ICU Nurse Manager will lead care in a hospital designated as an emergency care center, partnering with an around the clock emergency department for rapid stabilization and seamless transitions while directing operations that include advanced ventilatory support, vasoactive infusions, continuous cardiac monitoring, targeted temperature management, and renal replacement therapies. The ICU Nurse Manager will champion sepsis bundles, early mobility, and prevention of CLABSI, CAUTI, and VAP, maintaining strong nurse sensitive indicators and continuous survey readiness. Reporting to the Director of Critical Care Services and collaborating with the ICU Medical Director, the ICU Nurse Manager will be supported by experienced charge nurses, clinical nurse specialists, and unit based educators, and will oversee staffing and scheduling, budget stewardship, patient flow, accreditation readiness, quality improvement, and patient safety initiatives while mentoring preceptors and emerging leaders. The ICU Nurse Manager will be welcomed by friendly nurses and a diverse interprofessional team of intensivists, hospitalists, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, rehabilitation therapists, dietitians, case managers, social workers, and other care professionals who value teamwork and open communication.

Nestled among mountains, rivers, and big skies, the ICU Nurse Manager will love South Central Montana and the Yellowstone National Park region for an inviting blend of outdoor adventure and vibrant culture. As an ICU Nurse Manager, you can enjoy fly fishing on blue ribbon waters, hiking alpine trails in the Absaroka and Beartooth ranges, skiing fresh powder at nearby resorts, biking scenic byways, and exploring the geothermal wonders of Yellowstone. The ICU Nurse Manager will also love live concerts, local theater, community festivals, farmers markets, art walks, and a flourishing dining scene that features ranch to table cuisine, fresh baked goods, cozy coffee houses, craft breweries, and more, all set against four beautiful seasons and an easygoing lifestyle.

Offering competitive compensation up to $163,000 based on experience, the ICU Nurse Manager will receive a full suite of health and retirement benefits, generous paid time off, well being resources, and support for continuing education and specialty certifications. If you are an ICU Nurse Manager ready to explore this intensive care unit leadership opportunity, connect today with a Clinical Management Consultants recruiter for a confidential conversation and take the first step toward your next chapter in critical care leadership.