RN Operations Coordinator (Evenings)

Job Summary

The Operating Room (OR) Operations Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the daily Operating Room schedule of cases to include posting of cases and assisting with staff assignments. The OR Operations Coordinator assists Charge nurse with staff needs. They anticipate, identify, communicate, and resolves needs of patients and personnel to ensure the efficient and effective operations of the Operating Room schedule within the guidelines of the OR standards, and hospital policies and procedures.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Affirm quality patient care in accordance with established standards
• Assist Charge nurse with assigning staff and coordinate the posting of all surgical procedures
• Cookordinate patient needs, staff responsibilities, and surgeon requests as they relate to the running of the OR schedule and functions
• Ensure that cases are pulled and prepared, instruments and equipment are available, and everything is in working order
• Collect information and communicate needed changes for preference card updates or revisions
• Communicate effectively with physicians, staff, and the Nursing Administration
• Enhance continuity of patient care by coordinating the assignments of the Operating Room stay (inpatient, outpatient, and SDA)
• Assure that appropriate, effective inter/intra-shift communications are maintained
• Inform the Nurse Manager and Director of scheduled activity and alert them of potential problems, training, and equipment needs of the staff
• Alert Educator of training and education needs of staff
• Collaborate with Anesthesia Board Runner to plan for daily operations
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Participate in the collection and coordination of data for the OR computer system and the monitoring of block booking guidelines and utilization
• Requests on-call staff come in when there is a need
• Develop skills of caring behaviors, caring presence in formal and informal relationships with individuals and groups
• Promote and support research on caring and health/healing outcomes
• Implement and evaluate experimental/demonstrational models of caring-healing theory guided practices
• Explore relationships between and among data which document connections between caring theory guided practice models, nurse retention, patient-nurse satisfaction, healing outcomes, and costs
• Consult with and keep Nurse Managers informed of unit activities, needs, and problems
• Make immediate administrative decisions as necessary in the absence of Manager and/or Director
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with the hospital
• Initiate quality improvement/risk management activities independently and as directed
• Coordinate and communicate all schedule issues and concerns with the appropriate team members, to include surgeons, anesthesia, and surgical team
• Maintain responsibility for the decision-making regarding prioritizing OR emergency/urgent cases
• Collaborate with the Nurse Managers and Director to make recommendations for changes and the identification of areas requiring staff development
• Aid Educator with the orientation of new staff and provide support to all students affiliating with