Registered Nurse - OR Board Coordinator

Description

Trinity Health Oakland is a Level 2 Trauma Center with 15 operating rooms averaging 35 cases per day. Services include Acute Care Surgery, Colorectal, General Surgery, Cardio-Thoracic, Orthopedics, Endocrinology, Neurosurgery, Urology, Gynecology, Oncology, and Vascular, as well as off-shift Endoscopy. Nursing staff is supported 24/7 by department-based Anesthesiologists. The center is certified as a Joint Center of Excellence and Robotic Center of Excellence.

Position Qualifications

• Minimum Education, Licensure / Certification And Experience Required:
  • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or equivalent.
  • Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
  • Licensed to practice nursing in the state of Michigan.
• Special Skill / Aptitudes:
  • Interpersonal skills necessary for effective communication with hospital personnel and physicians.
  • Excellent customer service orientation skills for dealing with various levels of hospital personnel, outside customers, and community groups.
  • Six months to one year previous related working experience in Operating Room practices, policies, and procedures.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Ensures a safe, efficient environment for operating room staff, medical staff, and patients.
• Interprets and enforces OR schedule planning and administration of policies and procedures.
• Supports and interprets medical bylaws, rules, and regulations of surgical specialty services.
• Schedules addition of urgent cases appropriately.
• Collaborates with first call anesthesiologist in assigning emergency start times.
• Participates in development of intra-operative patient status report for families and friends waiting during surgery.
• Attends fire, safety, infection control, and disaster plan inservices.
• Makes frequent OR rounds to ascertain case progression and identify potential schedule changes.
• Controls room turnover in cooperation with service coordinators, clinical leaders, and staff.
• Assigns lunch and break relief for intr-operative staff.
• Adjusts assignments for sick calls and other time off requests.
• Communicates schedule delays and changes to anesthesiology, surgeons, OR managers, nursing staff, and appropriate nursing units, establishing appropriate schedule modifications.
• Maintains room utilization data and prepares monthly reports.
• Reviews scheduling policies and recommends policy changes based on utilization.
• Supports continuing education programs for operating room staff.
• Maintains membership in national organizations and organizes administration of the operating room schedule based on national and area standards.
• Executes performance expectations for control desk, off-shift, and holding staff.
• Delegates necessary authority and responsibility to staff, allowing them to perform within established expectations.
• Collaborates with service coordinators to make daily staff assignments based on expertise, physician requests, and the degree of experience required.
• Communicates personnel concerns to DSS.