Nursing Manager - Perioperative Services - F/T Days

About the role

Hackensack Meridian Health nurses care for patients and their families at every stage of life, 24 hours a day, at bedsides in 9 community hospitals, 4 academic medical centers, a behavioral health hospital, 2 children's hospitals, 2 rehabilitation hospitals, medical offices, and care facilities across the state.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to the standards identified in the Medical Center's Managerial Competencies
• Maintains compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies, including Joint Commission, NJS, and Federal Codes (DOH, OSHA), and other regulatory agencies
• Ensures adherence to legal requirements relating to Risk Management, Patient Bill of Rights, and other regulatory agencies
• Executes outcomes-based practice and directs staff in its application
• Evaluates the level of care provided by the Perioperative Staff
• Promotes medical center objectives for patient satisfaction through communication of data and the implementation of methods to sustain or resolve patient satisfaction issues
• Creates and monitors unit-based indicators as mandated or as necessary, integrating functions of standards development, continuing education, credentialing, performance appraisal, concurrent monitoring, utilization review, risk management, and active problem identification
• Acts as retention officer for areas of responsibility and the department as a whole and implements strategies directed towards retention and recruitment of all nursing and non-nursing employees
• Demonstrates leadership skills: establishes a mutually supportive relationship with all partners in care, maintains a professional relationship with Hospital Administrators, Medical Staff, and Department Heads, utilizes effective communication skills, is responsive to staff needs and offers guidance in solving practice issues when consulted through the performance process, collaborates with other clinical departments in developing or analyzing the design of patient throughput and makes recommendations or changes as appropriate
• Manages the periodic reviews and assessment of the perioperative throughput policies
• Generates timely, accurate reports/statistics per request (and upon authorization) for the medical staff, other departments and all other requestors
• Utilizes data to monitor efficiency and suggests changes to practice
• Identifies opportunities for performance improvement and patient safety, focusing on these opportunities, develops and implements plans for improvement
• Addresses and identifies barriers to efficiency and modifies processes as needed
• Identifies opportunities to improve turn-over time (wheels in to wheels out) and on-time starts. Focusing on these opportunities, develops and implements plans for improvement
• Maintains all employee records/files and evaluations for the Inpatient Operating Room staff
• Responsible for own professional growth
• Participates in development and implementation of programs related to performance improvement activities
• Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs (i.e., age, culture, hearing, and/or visually impaired, etc.). This process includes communicating with the patient, parent, and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age, educational, literacy, etc.)

Qualifications

• Graduate of a NLN/AACN accredited program in nursing
• Bachelor's degree in nursing: working towards Master's degree
• Minimum of 4 years Perioperative experience
• CNOR certified or working towards certification
• Moderate computer skills
• Strong Leadership skills
• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License

Compensation

Minimum rate of $133,120 Annually

Benefits

• workplace excellence
• collaborative work environment
• work-life balance
• compassionate nursing culture
• mentoring programs
• substantial tuition reimbursement