Surgical Svcs Assistant Director

QUALIFICATIONS

       Education

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing
• BSN

      Experience/Skills

• Minimum of three years management experience
• Progressive outlook, with proven leadership ability
• Two years current experience in specialty
• Recent OR experience
• Certification in area of expertise
• Interest in teambuilding and mentoring staff/peers
• Knowledge of current OR trends and technique
• Twenty-four hour responsibility and accountability for department
• Managerial responsibility for assigned staff
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with surgeons, department directors, and other professional personnel
• Uses good judgment
• Takes initiative
• Is objective and assertive
• Able to function in OB, Med Surg, and ICU with a working knowledge of Outpatient Surgery, Surgery, PACU, and Central Sterilization.

       Required Licenses/Certifications

• Currently licensed as an RN by the Indiana State Board of Nursing
• CPR
• ACLS
• PALS
• NRP

      Working Conditions

• Physical Environmental Factors
  1. Good physical health with an ability to move around freely
  2. Visual, auditory, and verbal acuity

ROUTINE RESPONSIBILITIES

       Behavioral Expectations

• Consistently complies with established Behavioral Expectations

       Management & Leadership Duties

• Assists in providing adequate staffing within departments
• Works with other members of Nursing Administration and House Supervisors to ensure staffing is coordinated between units
• Participates in interviewing, hiring, evaluating performance, and counseling staff
• Develops, reviews, revises policies and procedures and enforces compliance
• Acts as a role model and mentor to peers
• Displays effective conflict resolution skills
• Rotates work hours to provide for visibility and support to staff
• Identifies opportunities for change/growth
• Adapts, and supports new initiatives
• Knowledgeable of federal and state laws and regulatory agency standards
• Attends and actively participates in appropriate committee meetings
• Assists in meeting goals and objectives established during annual evaluation
• Participates in monthly departmental staff meetings, contributing information from reports and committees
• Assists with the coordination of classroom and clinical orientation of new staff
• Assists with the coordination of in-servicing for staff at unit level and ensures staff competency relative to skills
• Prepares biweekly Payroll, tracking attendance and bonuses
• Contributes to leadership accountability by documentation of thank-you notes and routine rounding (with Interdepartmental staff, patients, and departmental staff)
• Assists with coordination of in-servicing for staff at unit level and ensures staff competency relative to skills
• Drafts and submits quarterly Chargemaster reports to HIM, as required, in a timely manner
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned

       Financial Management

• Assists in keeping
  1. FTEs within department limits
  2. Salary expenses, including overtime, within budget limits
  3. Operating expenses within budget limits

       Interactive Responsibilities

• Identifies opportunities for improvement in care delivery and/or services and initiates change based upon QI findings
• Identifies opportunities to increase efficiency and streamline processes and implements appropriate changes
• Drafts and reports to PIC, as required, in a timely manner
• Drafts and submits reports to Surgical Review, as required, in a timely manner
• Submits reports to Administration, as required, in a timely manner
• Annually evaluates PI activities and helps to develop Departmental Goals, prepares and presents at appropriate committees and turns in reports to QI in a timely manner
• Participates in development of clinical pathways and participates in data collection and staff education
• Works closely with the Surgical Services Director and ICP to meet necessary IC standards
• Assists with follow-up on incident reports and keeps Surgical Services Director or members of Administration informed as appropriate
• Participates in a community-focused team.

       Nursing Skills

• Assess the physiological health status of the patient on admission to the operating room and performs an ongoing assessment of the patient's physiological health status during the intraoperative period.
• Assesses psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual status on admission to the operating room.
• Identifies nursing diagnoses appropriate to the intraoperative and postoperative period.
• Plans care based on the patient's problems/needs identified in the assessment.
• Plans and coordinates patient care perioperatively to allow for patient comfort by efficient use of down town; using surgeon's preference cards; and by coordinating activities of other disciplines to implement individual plan of care.