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Nurse Managers manage health service units and sub-units of hospitals, aged care and community health care facilities, supervise nursing staff and financial resources to enable the provision of safe, cost effective nursing care within specified fields or for particular units, and monitor quality, clinical standards and professional development of nurses.

Also known as: Nurse Supervisor, Nurse Unit Manager, or Charge Nurse.

A bachelor degree in nursing and nursing experience is usually needed to work as a Nurse Manager.

• developing, implementing and monitoring policies and objectives of nursing care as they apply to units, staff and community groups

• coordinating the allocation of human and material resources for a health service unit such as recruitment of staff, human resource management, preparation of budgets and fiscal management

• monitoring and controlling the performance of nursing and support staff within the unit, and providing leadership

• initiating studies to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing services in the unit in relation to objectives, costs and nursing care

• promoting working relationships with community agencies and health and education providers

• contributing to organisational objectives in relation to quality, safety and risk management

JSA produces employment projections to show where likely future job opportunities may be. The latest data are for the five years from November 2021 to November 2026. Over this period, the number of workers:

• is expected to grow very strongly
• is likely to reach 22,600 by 2026.

Source: Jobs and Skills Australia Employment Projections to 2026.

Notes: The number employed includes people who work in this occupation as their main job. People who work in more than one job are counted against the occupation they work the most hours in.

Employment projections figures are rounded to the nearest 100. Calculations based on these rounded figures may result in differences to the numbers that are displayed on this page. Employment projections data (including occupations) can be downloaded from the Employment Projections page.

Source: ABS Labour Force Survey, ABS seasonally adjusted data to November 2021 and Jobs and Skills Australia Employment Projections to 2026.

Source: Based on ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2021, Customised Report. Median weekly total cash earnings for full-time non-managerial employees paid at the adult rate. Earnings are before tax and include amounts salary sacrificed. Earnings can vary greatly depending on the skills and experience of the worker and the demands of the role. These figures should be used as a guide only, not to determine a wage rate.

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Health Care and Social Assistance

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Public Administration and Safety

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Professional, Scientific and Technical Services

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• The median age of Nurse Managers is 48 years. This is higher than the all jobs average of 40 years.

  A large share of workers are aged 45 to 54 years.

  Females make up 87% of the workforce. This is 39 percentage points above the all jobs average of 48%.

  Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile and gender share compared to the all jobs average.

Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile of workers in this job compared to the all jobs average.

A bachelor degree in nursing and nursing experience is usually needed to work as a Nurse Manager.

Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia is required.

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Source: ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Highest qualification completed by workers in this job (in any field of study). Qualifications needed by new workers might be different from the qualifications of workers already in the job.

Employers look for Nurse Managers who have good leadership and planning skills, with a strong ability to communicate.

Skills can be improved through training or experience.

• Being adaptable and coordinating work with other people.

• Reading work related information.

• Being able to use what you have learnt to solve problems now and again in the future.

• Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

• Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

• Judgment and decision making

  Figuring out the pros and cons of different options and choosing the best one.

• Understanding why people react the way they do.

• Talking to others.

• Managing your own and other peoples' time to get work done.

• Writing things for co-workers or customers.

• Keeping track of how well work is progressing so you can make changes or improvements.

• Management of personnel resources

  Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and choosing the best people for the job.

• Understanding needs and product requirements to create a design.

• Looking for ways to help people.

• Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

• Teaching people how to do something.

• Talking people into changing their minds or their behaviour.

• Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

• Bringing people together and trying to sort out their differences.

• Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect it.

These are important topics, subjects or knowledge areas.

• Word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office work.

• Administration and management

  Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.

• English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

• Customer and personal service

  Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.

• Curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

• Personnel and human resources

  Recruiting and training people, managing pay and other entitlements (like sick leave), and negotiating pay and conditions.

• Computers and electronics

  Circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

• How our laws and courts work. Government rules and regulations, and the political system.

• Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.

• Economics and accounting, the financial markets, banking and checking and reporting of financial data.

• Production and processing

  Raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and ways of making and distributing goods.

• Public safety and security

  Use of equipment, rules and ideas to protect people, data, property, and institutions.

• Diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including preventive health-care measures.

• Human behaviour; differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; research methods; assessing and treating disorders.

• Plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, how they rely on and work with each other and the environment.

• Media production, communication, and dissemination. Includes written, spoken, and visual media.

• Showing, promoting, and selling including marketing strategy, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

• Sociology and anthropology

  Group behaviour and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.

• Diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and career counselling and guidance.

• Transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

Workers use these physical and mental abilities..

• Listen to and understand what people say.

• Read and understand written information.

• Communicate by speaking.

• Write in a way that people can understand.

• Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.

• Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules.

• Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, even if you can't solve the problem.

• See details that are up-close (within a few feet).

• Order or arrange things in a pattern or sequence (e.g., numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

• Speak clearly so others can understand you.

• Identify and understand the speech of another person.

• Choose the right maths method or formula to solve a problem.

• Come up with a number of ideas about a topic, even if the ideas aren't very good.

• Come up with unusual or clever ideas, or creative ways to solve a problem.

• Come up with different ways of grouping things.

• Add, subtract, multiply, or divide.

• Do two or more things at the same time.

• Pay attention to something without being distracted.

• See details that are far away.

• See a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) hidden in other distracting material.

These are kinds of activities workers regularly do in this job.

• Keeping your knowledge up-to-date

  Keeping up-to-date with technology and new ideas.

• Guiding and directing staff

  Guiding and directing staff, including setting and monitoring performance standards.

• Planning and prioritising work

  Deciding on goals and putting together a detailed plan to get the work done.

• Communicating within a team

  Giving information to co-workers by telephone, in writing, or in person.

• Collecting and organising information

  Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or checking information or data.

• Building good relationships

  Building good working relationships and keeping them over time.

• Checking compliance with standards

  Deciding whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.

• Coaching and developing others

  Working out the needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or helping them to improve.

• Making decisions and solving problems

  Using information to work out the best solution and solve problems.

• Documenting or recording information

  Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.

• Scheduling work and activities

  Working out the timing of events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

• Coordinating the work of a team

  Getting members of a group to work together to finish a task.

• Researching and investigating

  Looking for, getting and understanding different kinds of information.

• Making sense of information and ideas

  Looking at, working with, and understanding data or information.

• Leading and encouraging a team

  Encouraging and building trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.

• Looking for changes over time

  Comparing objects, actions, or events. Looking for differences between them or changes over time.

• Assessing and evaluating things

  Working out the value, importance, or quality of things, services or people.

• Explaining things to people

  Helping people to understand and use information.

• Coming up with systems and processes

  Deciding on goals and figuring out what you need to do to achieve them.

• Using computers to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

Learn about the daily activities, and physical and social demands faced by workers. Explore the values and work styles that workers rate as most important.

Interests are the style or type of work we prefer to do. All interest areas are shown below.

• Starting up and carrying out projects. Leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes require risk taking and often deal with business.

• Following set procedures and routines. Working with numbers and details more than with ideas, usually following rules.

• Working with people. Helping or providing service to others.

• Ideas and thinking. Searching for facts and figuring out problems in your head.

• Working with forms, designs and patterns. Often need self-expression and can be done without following rules.

• Practical, hands-on work. Often with plants and animals, or materials like wood, tools, and machinery.

Work values are important to a person’s feeling of satisfaction. All six values are shown below.

• Work alone and make decisions. Workers are able to try out their own ideas, make decisions on their own, and work with little or no supervision.

• Serve and work with others. Workers usually get along well with each other, do things to help other people, and are rarely pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.

• Job security and good working conditions. There is usually a steady flow of interesting work, and the pay and conditions are generally good.

• Supportive management that stands behind employees. Workers are treated fairly by their company, they are supported by management, and have supervisors who train them well.

• Results oriented. Workers are able to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment.

• Advancement and the potential to lead. Workers are recognised for the work that they do, they may give directions and instructions to others, and they are looked up to in their company and their community.

The physical and social demands that workers face most often are shown below:

• Use electronic mail.

• Talk on the telephone.

• Talk with people face-to-face.

• Work indoors with access to heating or cooling.

• Be very exact or highly accurate.

• Work to strict deadlines.

• Have contact with people by telephone, face-to-face, or any other way.

• Spend time sitting at work.

• Work with people in a group or team.

• Write letters and memos.

• Have freedom to decide on tasks, priorities, and goals.

• Repeat the same tasks or activities (e.g., key entry) over and over, without stopping.

• Freedom to make decisions

  Have freedom to make decision on your own.

• Lead or coordinate a team

  Lead others to do work activities.

• Frequently make decisions that impact other people.

• Take responsibility for the results of other people's work.

• Work with customers or the public.

• Making repetitive motions

  Spend time making repetitive motions.

• Make decisions that have a large impact on other people.

• Compete with others, or be aware of competitive pressures.

The skills and importance ratings on this page are derived from the US Department of Labor O*NET Database Version 21.2, 11-9111.00 - Medical and Health Services Managers.