OR Coordinator; Registered Nurse

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values—integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion—must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day. At Bridgeport Hospital, we are committed to providing quality medical care and treatment that is coordinated and centered on the patient's specific needs. We strive to achieve benchmarks as a Patient Centered Medical Home and provide health care in a setting where patients are at the center of their care team. All employees of Bridgeport Hospital are part of the patient care team and contribute to the team approach of promoting access, continuous, comprehensive care and work to provide quality improvement in the care provided to patients.

Responsibilities

• Implements intra-operative nursing care in accordance with PCS division standards of practice, hospital, community, national standards, and regulatory agency requirements.
  • Monitors, revises, and adapts current specialty nursing practice in light of changing concepts, methods, techniques, and written standards of care.
• Organizes and implements specialty program modification and development based on departmental goals/objectives and physician needs.
  • Develops realistic annual objectives for specialty service as directed by NM.
• Communicates operating room concerns, operations, practice changes, and medical-legal issues to NM.
  • Resolves problems at the lowest level and uses appropriate chain of command to address program areas.
• Directs and coordinates nursing care activities of surgical specialty services supervised.
  • Provides direct patient care to maintain clinical and technical expertise and to serve as a role model to staff.
• Facilitates specialty service materials needs through systematic maintenance of materials resources.
  • Effectively coordinates processing, storage, restocking, and inventory of specialty instruments, supplies, and equipment in collaboration with materials staff.
• Supports and executes materials management program developed by the hospital and department.
  • Establishes an efficient service-specific material locator system.
• Maintains efficient resource information of case-procedures performed by assigned surgical specialties.
  • Works collaboratively with Surgery MIS Manager in the development of an efficient surgery scheduling database.
• Ensures timely completion of scheduled cases assigned to specialty services.
  • Collaborates with the Control Desk Coordinator to efficiently plan the coordination of surgical cases scheduled to services by delegating leadership role to staff with proven organizational skills.
• Maintains credentialing requirements.
  • Completes 10 CEUs annually.

Requirements

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in assigned specialty services required.
• Progressive leadership experience desirable with a proven track record of success in program development or participation, program implementation in areas of clinical patient care management, staff development, and specialty services materials management.
• 3 years of Operating Room RN experience required.
• Orthopedic experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing preferred.
• Licensed and currently registered nurse in the State of Connecticut.
• All newly hired Registered Nurses must have current BCLS certification or obtain within one month of hire.

Physical Demand

Requires prolonged standing; walking; use of sight, hearing, and touch; moving/lifting patients of varying weights.