CLINICAL NURSING DIRECTOR (University Hospital Operating Room)

Job Summary

Michigan Medicine's University Hospital Operating Room Unit is a 24/7 multi-specialty Level 1 Trauma OR. It is comprised of 20+ OR suites, with state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation. The Clinical Nurse Director must achieve Certified Perioperative Nurse (CNOR) certification within one year of employment, if not already obtained.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the administrative and clinical nursing leader in the University Hospital Operating Room.
• Coordinate operational and patient care activities that align with institutional objectives for high standards of patient care, as well as other institutional goals and objectives.
• Integrate unit goals and objectives with Nursing Service and departmental goals and objectives. Advise and assist with the establishment of priorities and institutional program development.
• Work closely with medical staff and other disciplines for the successful implementation of patient, unit, and institutional objectives. Assist in the resolution of interdisciplinary operating problems.
• Supervise operations of the unit. Establish minimum/maximum staffing patterns to ensure quality patient care. Initiate and implement a staffing schedule that is consistent with care requirements and responds to varying patient activity and patient mix.
• Identify and recommend specific staffing needs and position qualifications consistent with the respective unit objectives and patient case mix.
• Interview and select qualified personnel. Evaluate performance of nursing staff responsible to patient care unit. Make recommendations for merit awards and personnel classification changes. Counsel and instruct nursing staff to enable achievement of unit and institutional objectives, especially as it is related to high-quality patient care.
• Interpret and implement University and hospital personnel policies and programs, and ensure their uniform and correct application.
• Project and monitor personnel budget for patient care unit. Provide information regarding budget variances to the Associate Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO).
• Collaborate and coordinate with other disciplines to plan, evaluate, and implement the commodity budget for the patient care unit.
• Initiate and implement in-service guidelines for unit-level orientation and staff development. Encourage and provide opportunities for continuing education of the nursing staff.
• Initiate, plan, analyze, and participate in Nursing staff development programs and workshops.
• Participate in concurrent and retrospective evaluation of patient care consistent with the hospital quality assurance program. Through this review process, evaluate and recommend changes and improvements in areas affecting the quality of patient care.
• Establish guidelines with the nursing faculty, that support the institutional goal of providing the primary clinical environment for nursing students. Facilitate, coordinate, and monitor the clinical experience of nursing and other students.
• Initiate and cooperate in the applied research in health care in keeping with the institutional objectives of maintaining prominence in developing new modes of clinical practice.
• Formulate professional goals and prepare a written evaluation for ACNO.

Required Qualifications

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.
• Master's degree in Nursing or Health Care Administration, Public Health, Business or related field (a Juris Doctor degree may be considered). If Master's degree is not in Nursing, a Bachelor's degree in Nursing is required.
• Two (2) years of recent leadership experience, to include demonstrated leadership, management, communication, counseling, problem solving, decision making, conflict resolution, and group process skills.
• Minimum of five (5) years of nursing experience with demonstration of progressive clinical competence.
• Nurse Leadership certification or completion of a nursing leadership certification within one (1) year of accepting this position or when eligible to certify, whichever comes first. Certification is expected to be maintained while in this leadership role. Examples include Certified Nurse Manager and Leader (CNML) or, Nurse Executive (NE-BC). The nursing leadership certification must be recognized by the Magnet Recognition Program and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), for the list, visit here.

Desired Qualifications

• Two (2) years of recent supervisory experience in a multi-specialty operating room department.
• Minimum of five (5) years of RN experience with demonstration of progressive clinical competence in a multi-specialty operating room department.
• Experience in management of instrumentation.
• Experience in managing large, complex OR budgets.
• Knowledge and experience in designing and construction of Operating Room suites.