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New Mexico's nursing workforce is anchored by major health systems including Presbyterian Healthcare Services, UNM Health, and Lovelace Health System, with demand concentrated in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces. International nurses pursuing visa sponsorship will find opportunities across hospital, clinic, and long-term care settings throughout the state.
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1400 Chama Ave Santa Fe, NM 87505-3372
Compensation Pay Range:
Minimum Offer $100,152.00 Maximum Offer $175,718.40
Summary
Assists the Department Director in planning, directing and coordinating the operational, financial and personnel activities of the designated departments. Provides clinical and operational leadership for areas assigned.
How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.
- Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
- Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
- Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
- Malpractice liability insurance
- Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
- EPIC electronic charting system
Type of Opportunity: Full time
FTE: 1.00
Job Exempt: Yes
Work Shift: Days (United States of America)
Responsibilities:
Leadership Competencies
A. Leads Self: Foundational knowledge of the master competencies
B. Leads Team: Ability to manage and direct team and unit operations
C. Leads PHS: Ability to achieve results
a. Performance Dimensions
i. Managing the Business
1. Human resources: Manages the processes of recruitment, interviewing, and selection of candidates
2. Orientation of new staff: Overseeing the outcomes of orientation processes and retention of new hires. Addresses areas of opportunity to meet organizational goals.
3. Labor Laws: Facilitates and holds accountabilities to supporting an environment maintaining compliance with state and federal labor laws.
4. Process Improvement: Drives the monitoring and interventions to achieve results including quality indicators/targets, utilization of performance tools to improve processes and outcomes, optimizing patient safety, maintaining a continuous regulatory ready environment, and optimizes communication between all work groups.
5. Foundational thinking: Uses analytical, data-driven techniques for decision-making processes that will structure work models and support evidence-based practice
6. Technology: Proficient in using computer based skills/applications, clinical based technologies supporting patient care including electronic medical record, medication management, integrates technology into patient care processes and to support work systems. Support environment and staffing to provide a super-user environment for enhancing technical learning into at the point of care performance.
7. Strategic management: Contributes to or drives work plans to achieve optimal patient care and organizational results to the point of care, written reports of outcomes, presentation to key business audiences.
8. Clinical practice knowledge: Has understanding of nursing and care processes supporting clinical care practice in service area(s).
9. Financial management: Drives financial components of unit operations including budget creation, monitoring, analyzing, report variances in areas of responsibility. Responsible for achieving established target.
ii. Leading People
1. Human resource leadership skills: Manages staff performance including evaluations, goal setting, development plans; ability to achieve staff engagement and satisfaction, mentoring. Participation in succession planning; models professional standards and behaviors. Seeks input from key clinical leadership staff.
2. Relationship management: Provides leadership at the point of care by applying communication skills that optimize active listening, inquiry; use effective dialogue, conflict management techniques, negotiation, and mediation skills for assigned areas. Maintains open, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and healthcare partners.
3. Diversity: Maintains and holds staff accountable for an environment that upholds the cultural/population specific standards for those served; maintain an environment that upholds a diverse workforce.
4. Shared decision making: Advocates and supports the process of shared governance and shared decision-making.
iii. Professionalism
1. Professional and personal accountability: Role models the value of continuous learning including academic advancement, continuing education, and maintains currency on current care practices. Actively involved in performing annual self-assessment and on-going development action plan.
2. Career Planning: Assesses career planning/goals and develops/implements continuous learning and activities to support goal path.
3. Personal Journey: Actively reflects on continuous learning activities, utilizes action-learning techniques to identify and act on areas of strength and opportunities.
4. Reflective Practice: Incorporates and role models integrity, ability to maneuver ambiguity, seeks and acts on the potential within self and others, supports and fosters C.A.R.E.S. behaviors, supports a just culture.
iv. C.A.R.E.S. Behaviors: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care and supports, fosters, and holds self and staff answerable to C.A. R. E.S. behaviors (Continuous learning, accountability, respect/respond, environmental safety, and superior outcomes).
v. Professional Practice Model: Synergy
1. Synergy Model: Within the patient care environment manages staff performance and accountabilities to incorporate (1) Clinical judgment and action, (2) Patient advocacy, (3) Caring practices, (4) Collaboration within the interprofessional team, (5) Systems thinking, (6) Response to diversity, (7) Facilitation of learning, and (8) Clinical Inquiry.
Professional Requirements:
1. Maintains current professional licensure
2. Educational Requirements
a. Nurse Managers hired or rehired on/after July 2012, without BSN are hired under the contingency that they enroll and begin their BSN courses within 12 months of hire or rehire and they must complete their BSN program within 48 months of hire or rehire.
3. Exceptions to Educational Requirements
a. The PHS Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer and/or CDS Assistant Chief Nursing Officer/Regional Director of Patient Care Services may consider exceptions to these requirements.
b. If on July 2012, if the registered nurse is 55 years or older, the nurse will be grandfathered into new job profile and this requirement waived.
4. Professional emergency response training requirements as specified by service area
a. CDS Inpatient
i. Current BLS required
ii. Additional Requirements based upon area of service
1. Progressive Care: Current ACLS required
2. Adult Intensive Care: Current ACLS required
3. Adult Cardiac Critical Care: Current ACLS required
4. Emergency Department: Current ACLS/PALS required
5. Pediatrics: Current PALS required
6. PICU: Current PALS required
7. Newborn Nursery: Current NRP required
8. NICU: Current NRP required
9. Family Birthing Center: Current NRP/Fetal monitoring required; permanent charge ACLS required
10. Mother-Baby Care-Current NRP required
11. Operating Room: Current ACLS, PALS required
12. PACU: Current ACLS, PALS required
b. CDS Outpatient
i. Primary care clinics: Current BLS required
ii. Specialty care clinics: Current BLS required, Chemotherapy certification required in Oncology
iii. Urgent Care: Current BLS required
iv. Pediatric Urgent Care: Current BLS/PALS required
c. Regional Critical Access Hospitals
i. Medical-Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iii. Emergency Department: BLS/ACLS/PALS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/NRP/fetal monitoring required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
v. Operating Room: Current ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
d. Regional Non-Critical Access Hospital
i. Medical-Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iii. Emergency Department: Current PALS (PRMC), ACLS/TNCC (Espanola)/ENPC (Espanola) required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/ NRP/STABLE required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
v. Operating Room: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
vi. Day Surgery: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
e. Home Care/Hospice
i. Home care: Current BLS required
ii. Hospice: Current BLS required
iii. Inpatient Hospice: Current BLS required
Qualifications
Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License or Graduate Nurse Permit required
- BLS required.
Academic Preparation:
- BSN required
- Degree from accredited academic nursing program (If a program is under conditional status, approval may be granted by system CNO)
We're all about well-being, starting with yours.
Presbyterian employees have access to a fun, engaging and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.
Learn more about our employee benefits.
About Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.
Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.
AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.
Compensation Disclaimer
The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience and training, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs.
We're Determined to Support New Mexico's Well-Being | Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Location Address:
1400 Chama Ave Santa Fe, NM 87505-3372
Compensation Pay Range:
Minimum Offer $100,152.00 Maximum Offer $175,718.40
Summary
Assists the Department Director in planning, directing and coordinating the operational, financial and personnel activities of the designated departments. Provides clinical and operational leadership for areas assigned.
How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.
- Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
- Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
- Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
- Malpractice liability insurance
- Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
- EPIC electronic charting system
Type of Opportunity: Full time
FTE: 1.00
Job Exempt: Yes
Work Shift: Days (United States of America)
Responsibilities:
Leadership Competencies
A. Leads Self: Foundational knowledge of the master competencies
B. Leads Team: Ability to manage and direct team and unit operations
C. Leads PHS: Ability to achieve results
a. Performance Dimensions
i. Managing the Business
1. Human resources: Manages the processes of recruitment, interviewing, and selection of candidates
2. Orientation of new staff: Overseeing the outcomes of orientation processes and retention of new hires. Addresses areas of opportunity to meet organizational goals.
3. Labor Laws: Facilitates and holds accountabilities to supporting an environment maintaining compliance with state and federal labor laws.
4. Process Improvement: Drives the monitoring and interventions to achieve results including quality indicators/targets, utilization of performance tools to improve processes and outcomes, optimizing patient safety, maintaining a continuous regulatory ready environment, and optimizes communication between all work groups.
5. Foundational thinking: Uses analytical, data-driven techniques for decision-making processes that will structure work models and support evidence-based practice
6. Technology: Proficient in using computer based skills/applications, clinical based technologies supporting patient care including electronic medical record, medication management, integrates technology into patient care processes and to support work systems. Support environment and staffing to provide a super-user environment for enhancing technical learning into at the point of care performance.
7. Strategic management: Contributes to or drives work plans to achieve optimal patient care and organizational results to the point of care, written reports of outcomes, presentation to key business audiences.
8. Clinical practice knowledge: Has understanding of nursing and care processes supporting clinical care practice in service area(s).
9. Financial management: Drives financial components of unit operations including budget creation, monitoring, analyzing, report variances in areas of responsibility. Responsible for achieving established target.
ii. Leading People
1. Human resource leadership skills: Manages staff performance including evaluations, goal setting, development plans; ability to achieve staff engagement and satisfaction, mentoring. Participation in succession planning; models professional standards and behaviors. Seeks input from key clinical leadership staff.
2. Relationship management: Provides leadership at the point of care by applying communication skills that optimize active listening, inquiry; use effective dialogue, conflict management techniques, negotiation, and mediation skills for assigned areas. Maintains open, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and healthcare partners.
3. Diversity: Maintains and holds staff accountable for an environment that upholds the cultural/population specific standards for those served; maintain an environment that upholds a diverse workforce.
4. Shared decision making: Advocates and supports the process of shared governance and shared decision-making.
iii. Professionalism
1. Professional and personal accountability: Role models the value of continuous learning including academic advancement, continuing education, and maintains currency on current care practices. Actively involved in performing annual self-assessment and on-going development action plan.
2. Career Planning: Assesses career planning/goals and develops/implements continuous learning and activities to support goal path.
3. Personal Journey: Actively reflects on continuous learning activities, utilizes action-learning techniques to identify and act on areas of strength and opportunities.
4. Reflective Practice: Incorporates and role models integrity, ability to maneuver ambiguity, seeks and acts on the potential within self and others, supports and fosters C.A.R.E.S. behaviors, supports a just culture.
iv. C.A.R.E.S. Behaviors: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care and supports, fosters, and holds self and staff answerable to C.A. R. E.S. behaviors (Continuous learning, accountability, respect/respond, environmental safety, and superior outcomes).
v. Professional Practice Model: Synergy
1. Synergy Model: Within the patient care environment manages staff performance and accountabilities to incorporate (1) Clinical judgment and action, (2) Patient advocacy, (3) Caring practices, (4) Collaboration within the interprofessional team, (5) Systems thinking, (6) Response to diversity, (7) Facilitation of learning, and (8) Clinical Inquiry.
Professional Requirements:
1. Maintains current professional licensure
2. Educational Requirements
a. Nurse Managers hired or rehired on/after July 2012, without BSN are hired under the contingency that they enroll and begin their BSN courses within 12 months of hire or rehire and they must complete their BSN program within 48 months of hire or rehire.
3. Exceptions to Educational Requirements
a. The PHS Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer and/or CDS Assistant Chief Nursing Officer/Regional Director of Patient Care Services may consider exceptions to these requirements.
b. If on July 2012, if the registered nurse is 55 years or older, the nurse will be grandfathered into new job profile and this requirement waived.
4. Professional emergency response training requirements as specified by service area
a. CDS Inpatient
i. Current BLS required
ii. Additional Requirements based upon area of service
1. Progressive Care: Current ACLS required
2. Adult Intensive Care: Current ACLS required
3. Adult Cardiac Critical Care: Current ACLS required
4. Emergency Department: Current ACLS/PALS required
5. Pediatrics: Current PALS required
6. PICU: Current PALS required
7. Newborn Nursery: Current NRP required
8. NICU: Current NRP required
9. Family Birthing Center: Current NRP/Fetal monitoring required; permanent charge ACLS required
10. Mother-Baby Care-Current NRP required
11. Operating Room: Current ACLS, PALS required
12. PACU: Current ACLS, PALS required
b. CDS Outpatient
i. Primary care clinics: Current BLS required
ii. Specialty care clinics: Current BLS required, Chemotherapy certification required in Oncology
iii. Urgent Care: Current BLS required
iv. Pediatric Urgent Care: Current BLS/PALS required
c. Regional Critical Access Hospitals
i. Medical-Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iii. Emergency Department: BLS/ACLS/PALS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/NRP/fetal monitoring required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
v. Operating Room: Current ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
d. Regional Non-Critical Access Hospital
i. Medical-Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iii. Emergency Department: Current PALS (PRMC), ACLS/TNCC (Espanola)/ENPC (Espanola) required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/ NRP/STABLE required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
v. Operating Room: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
vi. Day Surgery: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
e. Home Care/Hospice
i. Home care: Current BLS required
ii. Hospice: Current BLS required
iii. Inpatient Hospice: Current BLS required
Qualifications
Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License or Graduate Nurse Permit required
- BLS required.
Academic Preparation:
- BSN required
- Degree from accredited academic nursing program (If a program is under conditional status, approval may be granted by system CNO)
We're all about well-being, starting with yours.
Presbyterian employees have access to a fun, engaging and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.
Learn more about our employee benefits.
About Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.
Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.
AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.
Compensation Disclaimer
The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience and training, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs.
We're Determined to Support New Mexico's Well-Being | Presbyterian Healthcare Services
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Which companies sponsor visas for nurses in New Mexico?
The largest visa-sponsoring employers for nurses in New Mexico include Presbyterian Healthcare Services, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Lovelace Health System, and CommonSpirit Health facilities. Critical Access Hospitals in rural areas such as Gallup Indian Medical Center and Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center also hire internationally, particularly for hard-to-fill specialties like ICU, emergency, and med-surg nursing.
Which visa types are most common for nursing roles in New Mexico?
Most internationally trained nurses working in New Mexico arrive on EB-3 immigrant visas sponsored by their employer through PERM labor certification. The H-1B visa is less common for nursing because most registered nurse roles do not meet the specialty occupation threshold, though certain advanced practice roles such as nurse practitioners may qualify. Some nurses also enter on TN visas if they hold Canadian or Mexican citizenship.
Which cities in New Mexico have the most nursing sponsorship jobs?
Albuquerque accounts for the largest share of nursing sponsorship opportunities in New Mexico, driven by UNM Hospital, Presbyterian, and Lovelace campuses. Santa Fe follows, with St. Vincent Regional Medical Center as a primary employer. Las Cruces is a growing market anchored by MountainView Regional Medical Center. Rural communities across the state also see sponsorship activity due to persistent staffing shortages in underserved areas.
How to find nursing visa sponsorship jobs in New Mexico?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship, making it straightforward to identify New Mexico nursing roles where employers are actively willing to sponsor. You can search by specialty, city, or employer type to narrow results to positions that match your qualifications. Because sponsorship availability changes frequently, checking Migrate Mate regularly and setting up alerts for New Mexico nursing roles gives you the most current picture of what is open.
Are there state-specific considerations for internationally trained nurses seeking sponsorship in New Mexico?
International nurses must obtain a New Mexico RN license through the New Mexico Nursing Board before starting work, which requires passing the NCLEX and meeting English proficiency requirements. New Mexico participates in the Nurse Licensure Compact, so nurses already holding a compact license from another state may be able to practice without a separate state application. VisaScreen certification through CGFNS is also required before an immigrant visa can be issued.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored nursing jobs in New Mexico?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.