Registered Nurse (RN) - Manager, OR - Operating Room - $31-43 per hour

About the role

The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is the leading academically‑integrated hospital system in Metro Detroit and one of the largest health care providers in Southeast Michigan. DMC operates eight hospitals, over 140 clinics and outpatient facilities, including a nationally recognized pediatric hospital and rehabilitation hospital. The organization is committed to patient care, innovation, and a collaborative, inclusive culture where employees feel like “my forever family.”

The OR/Pre‑Op/PACU Manager reports to nursing leadership and assumes management responsibility for a major function or multiple smaller functions that provide business support to nursing operations. The role may involve 24/7 oversight of two or more similar nursing units, reporting to a director or executive director. The position has medium scope/impact, typically overseeing fewer than 50 FTE (direct or indirect) across nursing units or managing a single major nursing operational support function.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, and evaluate processes related to performance improvement, staffing effectiveness, fiscal management, staff competence, and customer service outcomes within assigned units/services.
• Ensure that regulatory requirements, standards, laws, regulations, JCAHO requirements, and DMC policies are communicated, implemented, and monitored.
• Collaborate with other members of the healthcare team to plan, implement, and evaluate activities aligned with department, hospital, and DMC objectives.
• Model customer service excellence.
• Identify the need for departmental policy development or revision and define policy in collaboration with higher‑level management and department goals.
• Oversee the development and/or revision of departmental procedures/protocols; secure necessary approvals.
• Develop, monitor, and revise processes; may provide input into departmental organizational design and monitor workflow quality and quantity.
• Initiate or recommend personnel actions (hires, terminations, discipline) for assigned areas.
• Complete performance appraisals.
• Develop and assess performance of daily, monthly, and/or yearly goals and measures for assigned areas.
• Assist in long‑range goal development for the department and assessment of goal attainment.
• Assist in developing and monitoring budgets for designated single or multiple, closely‑related fields, areas, or processes.
• Support the DMC’s Code of Conduct by fostering commitment to legal and ethical standards and implementing audit recommendations as directed.

Requirements

• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Michigan.
• Three years of progressive nursing experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Master’s degree preferred; if a master’s is held, either the bachelor’s or master’s must be in Nursing.

Benefits

• Range of healthcare plans (higher and lower deductible options).
• Dental benefits.
• Vision benefits.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Basic life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance (free for eligible plan members).
• Options to participate in supplemental life insurance and/or disability plans.
• Legal services plan.
• Identity protection plan.
• Child and elder care programs.
• 401(k) savings plan.
• Employee discount plan (includes discounts for auto and home insurance, mobile plans, etc.).

Schedule

Day shift.