RN Clinical Specialty Lead

Patient and Family Experience

• Role model YNHH service excellence pledge standards
• Demonstrates value, diversity, and respect, for all people in the work environment
• Ensures the successful execution of service excellence standards for all customers
• Lead and inspire a team of positive, competent, and dynamic individuals
• Ensure confidentiality of patient, staff, and appropriate management data is maintained
• Identify and analyze trends in patient satisfaction scores specific to each specialty area

Staff Engagement

• Encourage and mentor to ensure staff competencies
• Collaboratively engage staff engagement with perioperative specialty
• Lead staff involvement with physicians associated with designated specialty
• Prioritize staffing needs to facilitate complex environment of perioperative services
• Collaboratively works with specialty physicians to promote optimal patient care safety and efficiencies
• Provides leadership oversight into staffing assignments and staffing competency assessment

Quality and Safety: Accountability / Expectation

• Demonstrates knowledge and implements patient safety and quality improvements for the perioperative specialty
• Exhibits ethical and professional responsibility to contribute to patient care, YNHH, and the patients in perioperative services
• Foster collaborative practice to promote safety and quality
• Maintains an environment to assure specialty readiness for all accreditation and regulatory surveys
• Exhibits an open mind to listen, challenge, and influence patient safety and clinical outcomes

Clinical Care

• Serves as the primary physician interface for the designated specialty(s)
• Plans staff and physician education for new equipment and supplies
• Actively solicits physician and staff input for service line enhancement
• Provides direct care 70% of the time - or as needed to support staffing
• Participates in collaboration with management to support the coordination of the overall planning, organization, direction and evaluation of designated perioperative specialty(s)
• Demonstrates the ability to respond to multiple demands at once, prioritize and delegate appropriate tasks to all perioperative team members to facilitate the efficient and safe transition for all patients
• Provides leadership to direct staffing needs on a daily basis
• Collaboratively works with Materials Management, and Central Sterile to ensure accuracy of procedural needs

Financial Management

• Oversight of the perioperative throughput including first case start time and turn-around time
• Provides management of staffing assignments and competency assessment for designated specialty(s)
• Leads specialty services coordination of equipment and supplies to promote optimal cost efficiencies
• Engages physicians and staff in the development of capital budgetary requirements