Operating Room Weekend Charge RN - Part-time - 48 hrs/pp - Bronson Battle Creek Hospital

Bronson Healthcare Group•Battle Creek, MI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Under general supervision and according to organizational policies, procedures, and guidelines, the Operating Room Weekend Charge RN oversees day-to-day operating room operations, including staffing and patient care. The RN serves as a role model, mentor, and resource for staff; helps manage workload, acuity, staffing, and patient flow; coordinates communication and education; and serves as a contact for internal and external customers. The position reports to the Operating Room Nurse Manager. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served. The charge RN oversees clinical operations to support efficient workflow, responds to staff and physician questions, and provides direct patient care. The role includes adjusting staffing and scheduling in response to patient volume and productivity goals, addressing customer concerns, serving as a liaison and resource across departments, coaching staff, supporting regulatory compliance, and promoting a high-performing, safe, courteous, and service-oriented team. The role also includes registered-nurse professional practice responsibilities, such as quality improvement, maintaining competency and continuing education, culturally sensitive and age-appropriate care, collaboration with patients and families and other disciplines, ethical practice and patient advocacy, use of research and evidence-based practice, safe delegation, and leadership within the professional practice setting. Scrub RN responsibilities include reviewing procedure cards and case carts, arranging for missing supplies or equipment, anticipating physician and surgical-team needs, monitoring the patient and operative field, updating case information, promoting proper equipment handling, supporting circulators with specialty equipment and implants, and performing scrub duties across multiple services. The RN is assigned rotational after-hours call.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Nursing.
At least two years of clinical experience in an operating room.
Current Registered Nurse licensure in good standing with the State of Michigan.
BLS certification required by completion of core orientation.
Basic PC skills for operating departmental databases and office programs; these skills may be acquired after hire.
Excellent human-relations skills for managing patients, physicians, and staff in difficult or sensitive situations.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to build teamwork and maintain positive relationships.
Customer-service orientation.
Leadership skills, including flexibility, organization, problem solving, ability to work independently, and initiative within established procedures and guidelines.
Ability to provide care appropriate to the population served and to perform the professional nursing responsibilities described in the posting.
For scrub duties, ability to perform scrub work across multiple services; the posting specifies spinal-fusion capability in neuro and orthopedic services for STII.

Responsibilities

Oversee daily operating room clinical operations and support efficient patient flow.
Respond to staff and physician questions and provide direct patient care.
Manage staff scheduling requests and day-to-day modifications based on patient volume and productivity goals.
Communicate professionally and positively with staff and physicians, and promote strong working relationships with physicians, vendors, and other departments.
Address immediate internal and external customer concerns, follow up, and keep the manager informed.
Serve as a department resource and liaison to other departments.
Coach and direct staff as a first resource to support efficient daily operations.
Help ensure procedures comply with regulatory guidelines.
Promote a high-performing team focused on quality, efficiency, innovation, and customer service, and maintain a safe and courteous workplace.
Participate in quality improvement and use its results to improve nursing practice.
Maintain nursing knowledge, competency, professional records, and ongoing education; evaluate practice and participate in self-evaluation and peer review as appropriate.
Share knowledge with colleagues and contribute to a supportive, healthy work environment.
Collaborate with patients, families, and other health disciplines to support positive patient outcomes.
Protect patient autonomy, dignity, confidentiality, and rights; provide patient advocacy and relationship-centered care.
Integrate research and evidence-based practice into nursing practice and contribute to research activities as appropriate.
Consider safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact when planning and delivering nursing services; delegate tasks appropriately and help patients and families understand treatment and care options.
Provide leadership in the professional practice setting, participate in councils and committees as appropriate, attend at least 50% of unit staff meetings, and help maintain a healthy work environment.
Review procedure cards and case carts before scheduled procedures and arrange to obtain missing supplies or equipment.
Apply knowledge of operative procedures and physician preferences to anticipate needs.
Observe changes in the patient's condition and changing needs of the operative field and surgical team, taking appropriate action.
Evaluate and update case information, including preference cards, equipment issues, back-ordered supplies, and recommended procedural changes.
Promote proper use and handling of equipment and instruments.
Support circulators unfamiliar with positioning devices, specialty equipment, or implants.
Perform scrub duties in multiple services, including neuro and orthopedic procedures; the posting specifies spinal-fusion capability in both services for STII.
Take after-hours call on a rotational basis.
Perform other duties as assigned.