"NURSING SUPERVISOR (Adult Hospitals: University Hospital Operating Room)"

This is a nursing supervisor position that has a primary function to coordinate and/or manage the daily OR schedule in a large, Level 1 Trauma, multi-service OR.

• Provide professional nursing leadership and administrative direction for nursing practice with the Pavilion Operating Room.
• Participate as an active member of the leadership team focusing on daily staffing, scheduling, as well as operational needs.
• Coordinate and optimize patient flow across the OR/PACU of the Pavilion to promote quality, safe patient care with appropriate nursing and support staff.
• Serve as liaison for clinical and operational issues surrounding patient placement in partnership with Anesthesia, Surgical, and Nursing staff.
• Provide ongoing monitoring of the trauma call system and remain readily available to receive Level 1 and 2 trauma patients.
• Collaborate with ancillary services and disciplines to eliminate barriers to timely transfers and receipt of patients.
• Act as a liaison between the OR/PACU department and patients and families.
• Provide direct supervision to nursing and ancillary staff members assigned.
• Additionally, the nursing supervisor will play an active role in recruitment efforts, hiring, continuous quality improvement, safety, customer service, education and research.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers.
• Provide effective communication with team members and other departments to ensure seamless process.
• Provide accurate and timely follow-up with staff, patients and families.
• Round in the OR areas to gather and report real time activity.
• Collaborate with nursing and medical staff to assess levels of care required for current patients.
• Provide ongoing assessment and communication of Operating Room availability and changes in patient status.
• Assess patient volumes and workload intensity in all areas for coordination and appropriate patient placement.
• Partner with Anesthesia to identify and problem-solve patient placement barriers to expedite Operating Room availability.
• Serve as a resource regarding institutional and departmental policies and procedures.
• Board all add-on/trauma/urgent cases
• Coordinate communication hand-off to Midnight Charge Nurse
• Coordinate and implement clinical nursing practice based on UMHS Policies and AORN Standards.

Leadership

Educate and provide feedback to nursing and medical staff in the OR/PACU department to improve patient placement and room management. Support the education mission by precepting nursing orientees as appropriate. Manage, supervise, and coordinate nursing and assistive staff for UH Operating Rooms:

• Registered Nurses
• Surgical Technologists
• Perioperative techs
• Laser techs
• Davinci Robot techs

Personnel Management

• Assist with hiring and staffing plans consistent with service needs and budget.
• Schedule and assign clinical staff, arrange coverage as needed
• Supervise, mentor, counsel and evaluate staff as part of a continuous development program within the Professional Framework
• Support staff education, cross training, and proficiency development
• Develop and foster teamwork and building trusting relationships
• Facilitate open channels of communication with the ACNO, directors, peers, staff, and physicians.
• Counsel and discipline staff to enable achievement of the unit and institutional objectives, particularly as related to high quality patient care.

Clinical Practice

• Facilitate and support a nursing practice environment in which empowerment, responsibility, autonomy, accountability, collaboration, and peer review are exercised
• Plan, coordinate and evaluate quality assurance activities
• Participate in the development of patient care models and systems.
• Serve as a role model to other departmental staff in the provision of direct patient care.
• Participate in multidisciplinary and unit problem-solving regarding patient care.
• Identify and plan for staffing consistent with the needs of the patient population and budgetary requirements.

Clinical Operations

• Coordinate unit operations including instrument processing, equipment evaluation, specialty implants, and specific surgeon requests
• Plan and monitor expenditures from payroll and commodity budgets
• Coordinate and control vendor site access and activity.
• Participate in the development and implementation of unit goals and objectives.
• Manages, directly and in collaboration with others, staffing, scheduling, benchmarking, work redesign, and cost management strategies, in the planning and management of clinical operations.
• Interprets and implements university and health system policies and procedures.
• Assists in the planning and implementation of new or expanded services and programs.
• Represents nursing and/or clinical department/unit on assigned committees.
• Round in the OR areas to gather and report real time activity.
• Assess patient volumes and workload intensity in all areas for coordination and appropriate patient placement.
• Partner with Anesthesia to identify and problem-solve patient placement barriers to expedite Operating Room availability.
• Board all add-on/trauma/urgent cases
• Coordinate communication hand-off to Midnight Charge Nurse

Quality Assurance and Research

• Assists in the development of strategies to improve care management within the area or unit.
• Participates in and supports the involvement of nursing staff in unit quality improvement activities.
• Provides leadership to staff in understanding and applying quality improvement principles and adoption of evidence-based changes in practice to daily work.
• Promotes and integrates research findings into clinical practice.
• Supports research activities on the unit, as indicated.
• Serve as a resource regarding institutional and departmental policies and procedures.
• Coordinate and implement clinical nursing practice based on UMHS Policies and AORN Standards.

Professional Development Education

• Facilitate collective activity in professional organizations.
• Develops self professionally through continuing education, professional reading, participating in professional organizations and networking.
• Evaluates own performance periodically with CND/ACNO.

Required Educational Requirements

Applicant must meet one of the following:

• Bachelors of Science in Nursing OR
• Associates degree or diploma in Nursing and a Master's degree in Nursing.
• Minimum five (5) years of RN experience.
• Minimum two (2) years of recent (within the last 5 years) RN experience in Operating Room/Procedural areas.
• Nurse Leadership certification or completion within two (2) years of accepting this position or when eligible to certify, whichever comes first. Certification is expected to be maintained with in this leadership role. Examples include Certified Nurse Manager and Leader (CNML) or, Nurse Executive (NE-BC). Certifications must be recognized by the Magnet Recognition Program and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
• Evidence of demonstrated or potential leadership ability, including charge nurse, team leader, or other management experience.

NOTE: Required qualifications must be met by the candidate in order to be interviewed and considered for the position.

RESUME REQUIRED (for both internal & external applicants): You must attach a complete and accurate resume to be fully considered for this position

Desired Qualifications

• Previous experience with OR patient coordination and placement
• CNOR certification
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to motivate others in an individual and group setting
• Ability to plan, organize and direct the activities of others
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to apply good judgment and to handle confidential materials and situations with sensitivity and discretion
• Demonstrated experience with in-patient Operating Room nursing
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to perform as role model to nursing staff
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to deal with a diverse group of people in a diplomatic and effective manner
• Previous experience with OR patient coordination and placement

Hours: 40 hours/week

Shift: Evening shift; hours will flex to department need

Location: University Hospital Operating Room