Nurse Manager, Perioperative Services

Primary Duties

• Ensures family-centered care for all areas of responsibility
• Patient Satisfaction Results are benchmarked quarterly, shared with staff, and performance improvement plans are in place to continuously improve and exceed targets.
• Is a leader in the Service Excellence Program in all areas of responsibility.
• Coaches and Mentors all staff in exceeding family centered standards.

Accountable for Compliance in Regulatory and Professional Practice Standards of Quality Care

• Continuously Audits areas of responsibility for continuous regulatory readiness.
• Holds themselves and others accountable to being aware of new professional and regulatory standards of practice in all areas of practice.
• Maintains Continuing Education Units and Servitor where applicable

Facilitates a Positive Team Environment

• Demonstrates knowledge and utilization of human resource protocols for interviewing, hiring, coaching, counseling for improvement, and termination.
• Completes timely and thorough staff evaluations.
• Has positive physician, peer, and senior administration interactions and respectful professional relationships.
• Works as a team with other departments on performance improvement, patient throughput 5. Shares employee engagement scores and joint action plans to improve overall benchmark scores each year.
• Assure Surgery Schedulers, Nursing Clinical Supervisors, Surgery Techs are all aware and in alignment with patient throughput and access initiative.
• Conducts staff meetings, morning huddle, UBC meetings, and coaching as needed to assure staff and front line supervisors are mentored as needed.

Actively Manages Staffing and Supplies Daily to meet or exceed budgeted Targets

• Work with the Vice President of Perioperative Services and the Perioperative Business Manager to plan budget for staffing and supply targets
• Work with Service Leads, Nursing, and Materials management on par levels and preference cards to assure accuracy and timely revenue.
• Manage staffing to assure productivity levels are met or exceeded.
• Documents variances in a timely fashion.