Nurse Manager Main OR

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center•Houston, TX
•$56 - $83

About The Position

The Manager of Perioperative Services provides comprehensive leadership and operational oversight for all perioperative phases, ensuring safe, high-quality, and efficient surgical care. The role focuses on optimizing patient outcomes and staff performance by managing multidisciplinary teams, optimizing surgical schedules, overseeing resource allocation, and implementing practices that enhance quality, safety, and efficiency. The manager monitors financial performance, ensures regulatory compliance, and drives continuous improvement. The position coordinates patient flow throughout perioperative services from admission to discharge, consults on patient-care situations requiring advanced competency, and serves as a clinical resource for problem-solving and patient-related issues. The manager develops staff competence, oversees cost-effective operations and initiatives, and may provide direct care to surgical patients as needed.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years of leadership experience; or 4–6 years in the discipline or a minimum of 5 years of leadership experience in the discipline; or a master's degree with no experience.
  • Registered Nurse.
  • Texas Registered Nurse license.
  • Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate patient flow throughout perioperative services from admission to discharge.
  • Manage multidisciplinary teams and optimize surgical schedules.
  • Oversee resource allocation and implement practices that enhance quality, safety, and efficiency.
  • Monitor financial performance, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive continuous improvement.
  • Consult in patient-care situations requiring advanced competency and knowledge.
  • Serve as a clinical resource for problem-solving and assist staff with patient-related issues.
  • Serve as a role model to develop staff competence in nursing care.
  • Manage cost-effective operations and initiatives, including product evaluation, prevention of waste and damage, materials management, patient flow, overtime control, and appropriate staff mix.
  • Provide safe, quality care directly to a surgical patient as needed.
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