Operating Room Manager, Operating Room, 40-Hours, Days, 700am 330pm Sign-on Bonus 10,000

Hours: 40-Hours Days 7:00 am - 3:30 pm

Job Summary:

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Operating Room Manager oversees daily operations in the Operating Suite. Responsibilities include but are not limited to creating monthly staffing schedules daily staffing assignments monitoring quality of nursing patient care and regulatory compliance patient satisfaction and serving as a clinical nursing collaboration with the Perioperative Services Manager Central Sterile Manager and the Anesthesiologist in Charge the OR Manager facilitates and optimizes patient throughput throughout perioperative services. Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to: leading performance improvement initiatives implementing and maintaining policies consistent with the evidence-based standards of care assisting in clinical care as needed timely completing employee evaluations. OR Manager reports directly to the Vice President of Perioperative Services.

Essential Functions

• Assesses (and reassesses) plans implements and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
• Provides patient care based on standards of care standards of practice protocols and established policies and procedures.
• Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patients sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs readiness to learn and barriers to learning
• Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
• Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources reassigns personnel as necessary recognizes need for emergency intervention etc.).
• Provides thorough timely and accurate documentation of all pertinent data therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
• Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
• Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor instructor trainer attends professional development programs etc.).
• Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
• Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
• Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physicians orders protocols policies and procedures.
• Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
• Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed as well as documents assessment and patients response to medication.
• Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD.
• Coordinates the Operating Room schedule in collaboration with the PACU SDC PAT and Anesthesia Department to ensure patient well-being during the perioperative process.
• Coordinates and organizes patient flow for Surgical Services with Surgeon anesthesiologists RNs Surgical Technicians and other departments.
• Prioritizes and reprioritizes department needs based on changes and additions to the Operating Room schedule.
• Demonstrates the clinical expertise necessary to function as a role model for staff on a daily basis.
• Utilizes the nursing process in assessing planning implementing and evaluating care for patients undergoing surgical intervention.
• Maintains current knowledge of the uses of all equipment medications and instrumentation needed during surgical intervention.
• Assures that work assigned to personnel under her supervision is completed accurately and thoroughly while optimizing own time through effective delegation.
• Supports and promotes strict adherences to the policies and procedures outlined in the department and hospital policy manual at all times. Stays current in the evidence based practice standards updates policy as needed and on regular bases.
• Assures that all techniques and practices carried out during surgical procedures are accurate and reflect standards of perioperative practice.
• Manages the material needs of the Surgical Services Department on a continuous basis so that sufficient equipment instrumentation and supplies are available as needed by surgeons individual patients and staff.
• Arranges for all equipment instrumentation and supplies to be available for specific cases surgeons and needs of individual patients.
• Maintains Operating Room inventory at pre-determined levels and monitors capital equipment requests and needs from surgeons and staff.
• Maintains a safe environment for patients and staff undergoing surgical intervention.
• Always assures that principles of aseptic technique and procedure are consistently applied to all surgical procedures.
• Arranges for proper repair and maintenance of equipment instrumentation and facilities within Surgical Services.
• Responsible for assessing staff performance with hand hygiene compliance and participating in compliance rounds as requested by Infection Prevention Director. Provide remediation or progressive discipline to employees as indicated.
• Responsible for assessing staff performance with Medication Reconciliation and providing remediation or progressive discipline where indicated.
• Leads and implement performance improvement and quality initiatives.
• Responsible for assessing the overall staff performance providing feedback and completing timely evaluations. Provide remediation or progressive discipline to employees as indicated.
• Ensures compliances with regulatory standards in Perioperative Services.

Statement of Other Duties:

This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood therefore that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

Organizational Expectations

Behavioral Attributes

The following behavioral attributes are required: achievement motivation flexibility concern for order initiative self-confidence self control customer service orientation interpersonal effectiveness teamwork and information seeking.

Functional Demands

Physical Requirements

Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction) handles (seizing holding grasping turning or working with hands) and feels (perceiving attributes of items such as size shape temperature or texture by means of fingertips). Occasionally stoops (bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist) and kneels (bending the legs at knee to come to rest on knee or knees).

Job Requirements

Minimum Education

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.

Minimum Work Experience

• O.R. nursing experience and CNOR strongly preferred.

RequiredLicenses

• Current MA RN license.
• ACLS upon hire OR must hold an active BLS card and obtain AHA ACLS within 60 days of hire

Required Skills

• Ability to function in an environment with competing priorities is a must.
• Ideal candidate must possess excellent communication skills ability to multitask and have a can-do attitude.