Job Details

Provide professional nursing leadership and administrative direction for nursing practice within the University Hospital Operating Room. 

Participate as an active member of the leadership team focusing on daily staffing, scheduling as well as operational needs.  

Additionally, the nursing supervisor will play an active role in recruitment efforts, hiring, continuous quality improvement, safety, customer service, education and research. 

Participate as a member of the leadership team to provide, and continually improve, health care services, and to support the mission and goals of the health system.

Ensure the quality of nursing services provided to patients.

The ideal candidate will be firm, yet personable, a strong leader, with the ability to set high standards and hold people accountable for meeting unit performance and patient care standards.

The candidate will have a process improvement background and demonstrated ability as a change agent.

Prior experience in nursing leadership is preferred.

Responsibilities*

Personnel Management

• Select, hire, and plan for staffing, 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.

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.

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.