Practice Leader, Operating Room, 40-Hours, Days, 7:00am - 3:30pm

Heywood Hospital•Gardner, MA

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About The Position

You Matter Here! Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages, great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter! Hours: 40-Hours, Days, 7:00am - 3:30pm Job Summary: Clinical practice leader functions as a charge nurse in the operating room, PACU, and SDC. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, creating monthly staffing schedule, daily staffing assignments, monitoring quality of nursing patient care and regulatory compliance, patient satisfaction, and serving as a clinical nursing resource. In collaboration with the director of perioperative services and anesthesiologist in charge, clinical practice leader facilitates and optimizes patient throughput throughout perioperative services.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Bachelor's preferred.
Previous OR nursing experience.
Current MA RN licence.
AHA ACLS and PALS required.
Ability to function in an environment with competing priorities is a must.
Ideal candidate must possess excellent communication skills, ability to multitask and have a can-do attitude.
Effective leadership and ability to function in an environment with competing priorities is a must.

Responsibilities

Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.).
Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician’s orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients’ response to medication.
Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD.
Coordinates the Operating Room schedule in collaboration with the PACU, SDC, PAT and Anesthesia Department to ensure patient well being during the perioperative process.
Coordinates and organizes patient flow for Surgical Services with Surgeon, anesthesiologists, RN's, Surgical Technicians and other departments.
Prioritizes and reprioritizes department needs based on changes and additions to the Operating Room schedule.
Demonstrates the clinical expertise necessary to function as a role model for staff on a daily basis.
Utilizes the nursing process in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for patients undergoing surgical intervention.
Maintains current knowledge of the uses of all equipment, medications and instrumentation needed during surgical intervention.
Assures that work assigned to personnel under her supervision is completed accurately and thoroughly while optimizing own time through effective delegation.
Supports and promotes strict adherences to the policies and procedures outlined in the department and hospital policy manual at all times.
Assures that all techniques and practices carried out during surgical procedures are accurate and reflect standards of perioperative practice.
Manages the material needs of the Surgical Services Department on a continuous basis so that sufficient equipment, instrumentation and supplies are available as needed by surgeons, individual patients and staff.
Arranges for all equipment, instrumentation and supplies to be available for specific cases, surgeons, and needs of individual patients.
Maintains Operating Room inventory at pre-determined levels and monitors capital equipment requests and needs from surgeons and staff.
Maintains a safe environment for patients and staff undergoing surgical intervention.
Always assures that principles of aseptic technique and procedure are consistently applied to all surgical procedures.
Arranges for proper repair and maintenance of equipment, instrumentation and facilities within Surgical Services.
Responsible for assessing staff performance with hand hygiene compliance and participating in compliance rounds as requested by Infection Prevention Director. Provide remediation or progressive discipline to employees as indicated.
Responsible for assessing staff performance with Medication Reconciliation and providing remediation or progressive discipline where indicated.