RN Clinical Specialty Lead

Yale New Haven Health•New Haven, CT

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Under the direction of the Patient Service Manager, the RN Clinical Periop Lead (CPL) organizes patient care activities and serves as the primary clinical resource to the Perioperative team in the designated specialty(s) to provide quality nursing care. The CPL supports the overall coordination of the perioperative specialty and actively collaborates with physicians and staff to facilitate the complex, dynamic environment of perioperative services.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing.
BSN required, or attained within 2 years of start date.
Clinical RN 2 years perioperative experience with a minimum of 1 year experience in designated specialty field.
For PACU a minimum of 2 years peri anesthesia experience and ACLS preferred.
Current CT state RN licensure and/or eligibility for CT state RN licensure required.
Specialty certification preferred.
Demonstrates excellent clinical OR expertise, displays strong interpersonal communication skills, maintains a high level of customer service, prioritizes needs of department and perioperative specialty, and organizes operational efficiencies.

Nice To Haves

ACLS preferred

Responsibilities

Role model YNHH service excellence pledge standards
Demonstrates value, diversity, and respect, for all people in the work environment
Ensures the successful execution of service excellence standards for all customers
Lead and inspire a team of positive, competent, and dynamic individuals
Ensure confidentiality of patient, staff, and appropriate management data is maintained
Identify and analyze trends in patient satisfaction scores specific to each specialty area.
Demonstrates clinical competence in perioperative services associated with designated surgical specialty(s).
Encourage and mentor to ensure staff competencies
Collaboratively engage staff engagement with perioperative specialty
Lead staff involvement with physicians associated with designated specialty
Prioritizes staffing needs to facilitate complex environment of perioperative services
Collaboratively works with specialty physicians to promote optimal patient care safety and efficiencies.
Provides leadership oversight into staffing assignments and staffing competency assessment.
Demonstrates knowledge and implements patient safety and quality improvements for the perioperative specialty.
Exhibits ethical and professional responsibility to contribute to patient care, YNHH, and the patients in perioperative services.
Foster collaborative practice to promote safety and quality.
Ensures staff are well prepared to optimally perform clinical accountabilities.
Maintains an environment to assure specialty readiness for all accreditation and regulatory surveys.
Exhibits an open mind to listen, challenge, and influence patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Serves as the primary physician interface for the designated specialty(s).
Plans staff and physician education for new equipment and supplies
Actively solicits physician and staff input for service line enhancement
Provides direct care 70% of the time - or as needed to support staffing
Participates in collaboration with management to support the coordination of the overall planning, organization, direction and evaluation of designated perioperative specialty(s).
Demonstrates the ability to respond to multiple demands at once, prioritize and delegate appropriate tasks to all perioperative team members to facilitate the efficient and safe transition for all patients.
Provides leadership to direct staffing needs on a daily basis.
Collaboratively works with Materials Management, and Central Sterile to ensure accuracy of procedural needs.
Oversight of the perioperative throughput including first case start time and turn-around time
Provides management of staffing assignments and competency assessment for designated specialty(s)
Leads specialty services coordination of equipment and supplies to promote optimal cost - efficiencies
Engages physicians and staff in the development of capital budgetary requirements