Operating Room Nurse Manager

Responsibilities

• Fosters a commitment within the operating room suites towards excellence, caring, cooperation, and collaboration to meet the needs of patients presenting for surgery or procedures.
• Assists in development, interpretation and implementation of policies and procedures.
• Ensures periodic evaluation of operating room staff, including assisting with disciplinary action when warranted.
• Develops and executes the scheduling and staffing plans for operating room personnel.
• Makes budgetary, scheduling and staffing decisions with direct input and oversight from the Director of Surgical Services.
• Makes all staff assignments; reviews ancillary staff, makes RN assignments; coordinates orientations precepts orients in conjunction with the education department.
• Evaluates patient acuity level, staff skill and experience level/mix and takes that into consideration when developing the schedule and staffing plans.
• Supports and directs the clinical operation as needed.
• Works proactively. Collaborates with all hospital departments to ensure strong, supportive organizational structure, functions and outcomes for both patients and staff members.
• Acts as a liaison and fosters collaboration between staff, family, physicians, anesthesia and other patient care team members.
• Possesses the ability to understand, interpret and execute collective bargaining unit agreements. Negotiates with patients and families to promote patient satisfaction when problems are identified.
• Assesses issues with regard to preoperative and postoperative services, initiates appropriate action and addresses the issue using the chain of command, and escalates issues to the appropriate leadership personnel.
• Collaborates with staff to ensure appropriate follow-up and reporting of events that involve quality, safety and regulatory issues.
• Coordinates and encourages staff development and clinical learning experiences for staff.
• Maintains an environment in which the patient care team can work cooperatively toward objectives.
• Facilitates communication, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Encourages staff to identify needs and areas where improvement in work processes or patient outcomes could be made.
• Ensures adequacy of human and material resources, including equipment and deploys resources in a fiscally responsible manner with direct oversight from the Director.
• Ensures that standards of patient care are appropriately implemented through concurrent oversight of the clinical area with support from the Director.
• Ensures appropriate documentation of care delivered through chart review.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must have basic computer skills and ability to access internet and other programs applicable to Waterbury Hospital procedures.
• Perform automated functions that fall within job responsibility.
• Bachelors Degree required, Master's Degree Preferred.
• BLS required ACLS preferred.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of OR clinical experience required.
• Supervisory, management experience required.
• CNOR certification preferred.