Registered Nurse-OR Board Coordinator- Ambulatory Surgery

Trinity Health•Pontiac, MI

About The Position

The Registered Nurse-OR Board Coordinator is responsible for maintaining a safe and efficient operating room environment for employees, medical staff, and patients. The role administers daily operating room schedules, ensures compliance with policies and procedures, coordinates staffing and patient flow, and supports effective schedule planning in alignment with facility goals and applicable standards. The coordinator collaborates with surgeons, anesthesiology, operating room management, service coordinators, nursing staff, and other departments to plan and adjust schedules, assign intra-operative staff, respond to urgent and emergency cases, manage delays and room turnover, and maintain scheduling and room-utilization information. The role also supports staff development and education, quality improvement, performance expectations, revenue management, equipment tracking, and accurate electronic health record use. The position is based in an operating room environment. Work in the patient care environment may involve exposure to communicable diseases and hazardous substances. The organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer and states its commitment to dignity, inclusion, and compassionate, person-centered care.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or equivalent.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Licensed to practice nursing in the state of Michigan.
Interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with various levels of hospital personnel and physicians.
Customer-service orientation skills to work effectively with hospital personnel, outside customers, and community groups.
Six months to one year of previous related work experience to acquire and use knowledge of operating room practices, policies, and procedures.

Responsibilities

Maintain a safe, efficient operating room environment for staff, medical personnel, and patients.
Interpret and enforce operating room schedule planning and applicable policies and procedures, including relevant medical bylaws and specialty-service rules.
Assign intra-operative staff based on expertise, service-coordinator recommendations, and patient, surgeon, and procedure requirements.
Schedule urgent cases and collaborate with the first-call anesthesiologist on emergency start times.
Participate in developing intra-operative patient-status reports for families and friends waiting during surgery.
Attend fire, safety, infection-control, and disaster-plan in-services.
Monitor the quality of schedule administration and scheduling processes using established criteria.
Develop, implement, modify, and maintain schedule-planning and schedule-administration programs in conjunction with the DSS and facility goals.
Review scheduling policies and operational procedures, recommend policy changes, and establish and maintain quality-improvement criteria.
Administer the daily operating room schedule efficiently, including sending for patients in a timely manner and supporting patient flow.
Communicate schedule delays and changes to anesthesiology, surgeons, operating room managers, nursing staff, and relevant nursing units; make appropriate schedule modifications.
Make operating room rounds to monitor case progression and identify potential schedule changes.
Coordinate room turnover with service coordinators, clinical leaders, and staff; assign lunch and break relief and adjust staffing for absences and time-off requests.
Collaborate with anesthesia staff to review schedules and ensure they run smoothly and in accordance with policies and protocols.
Support physician scheduling strategies, communicate schedule start accuracy and changes, verify the next day's schedule, and resolve surgeon-related scheduling issues through appropriate channels.
Encourage communication among surgeons and nurses, maintain room-utilization data, and prepare monthly reports using established scheduling criteria.
Support continuing education and staff development, attend relevant in-services and seminars, and modify patient flow as needed to support staff attendance.
Communicate department goals with staff and leadership and maintain professional growth and knowledge of intra-operative care and scheduling practices.
Organize operating room schedule administration in accordance with national and area standards and implement performance expectations for control-desk, off-shift, and holding staff.
Use a standards-based performance evaluation process and meet with employees formally and informally to discuss practice changes and position expectations.
Delegate authority and responsibility to staff within established expectations and assign personnel to provide intra-operative care.
Review staff and room utilization and service-coordinator assessments to determine staffing needs in collaboration with the operating room management team.
Collaborate with service coordinators on daily staff assignments and with the education/quality-improvement coordinator when assigning orientees to cases.
Communicate personnel concerns to the DSS.
Demonstrate behaviors consistent with the mission and values of St. Joseph Mercy Oakland and comply with applicable laws, regulations, organizational integrity standards, and policies.
Meet customer-service expectations and ensure charges are entered for the correct patient, encounter, and service details; make corrections as required by charge-capture policy.
Participate in ongoing education and communication regarding revenue management.
Track and monitor equipment assigned to the unit and request maintenance services as needed.
Use electronic health records proficiently for documentation, assessment, and care management while providing care throughout the shift.