Nurse Manager I, Perioperative Services (Operating Room)

YK Solutions•Happy Valley, OR

19h•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for implementing best practice models, patient care delivery systems, and practice standards across several locations. The role involves investigating and resolving patient/family/member concerns, collaborating with physicians and other healthcare providers for optimal patient care, and monitoring resource needs, equipment, supplies, and medications. The Nurse Manager fosters a safe environment, maintains clinical expertise, provides clinical supervision, and delegates tasks aligned with the scope of practice. They also perform clinical duties as required and collaborate with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, and federal, state, and local requirements.

Requirements

Minimum three (3) years of experience in patient care delivery
Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) AND minimum three (3) years of experience in business operations, clinical healthcare, or a directly related field
Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
STRONG OPERATING ROOM LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Surgical Service experience
Perioperative experience
Registered Nurse License (Oregon) required at hire
Basic Life Support required at hire

Nice To Haves

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification from the American Heart Association
Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in related practice area

Responsibilities

Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement.
Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations.
Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends.
Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams.
Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed.
Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress.
Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources.
Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
Drives implementation of action items and supports compliance with timelines and financial commitments.
Reviews ad hoc reporting to meet specific client needs related to workflow and performance targets.
Oversees data collection, reviews data, and translates reports into short-term operational initiatives.
Manages cross-functional activities including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance feedback), labor relations, training and development, and quality/risk management issues.
Leads survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and regulatory standards; develops procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports.
Assists in the development and management of department budget, expenditures, and payroll with input from a higher-level leader.
Manages complex work streams and implements strategic initiatives with significant program impact.
Utilizes data and analysis to ensure strategic alignment while developing and implementing plans.
Proactively monitors daily operational activities involving direct and/or indirect patient care management.
Monitors resources in hospital areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization.
Manages multidisciplinary hospital team(s) and holds team(s) accountable for performance.
Implements emergency preparedness programs; ensures others are up-to-date with the team's emergency preparedness plan, revises recovery plans as needed, ensures and confirms staff are trained and understand expectations for during and after an emergency.
Leads project teams and/or initiatives and monitors implementation and delivery on objectives.
Manages the delivery of nursing services and patient care within a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operational environment in alignment with cost, quality, and clinical and utilization standards.
Manages the work of cross-functional teams including overseeing the development of goals and priorities, defining issues, and in some cases leading and implementing strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency.
Applies a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes and address quality and safety issues.
Contributes to the development of and implements strategic plans with the goal of achieving integrated services across the continuum of care.
Ensures performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic department initiatives.
Monitors and guides the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of clinical practices, services, and operations for patients and staff.
Holds staff and direct reports accountable for maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements) updated by governmental and regulatory agencies.
Implements and supports the design of systems, processes, and methods to evaluate and improve patient care within assigned department and across the continuum of care.