UNM Hospital

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Department: Operating Room - CCT
FTE: 1.00
Full Time
Shift: Days
Position Summary:
Oversees the day-to-day operation of the operating room and serve as a role model for professional nursing practice. Implements and monitors compliance to patient care and professional standards established by UNMH, state law and regulatory agencies. Provides effective visionary leadership in the development of processes and protocols used to coordinate tasks and effective change. Collaborates with leadership across departments to create and maintain efficiency in the operating room. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups.
Detailed Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>SUPERVISION - Develop efficient organizational structure. Supervise employees and select, terminate, train, educate, correct deficiencies, perform appraisals, issue discipline, counsel, schedule work assignments; encourage staff teamwork and growth initiatives</li>
<li>MISSION - Utilizes the UNM Hospitals mission to implement system changes within Surgical Services that maintain quality patient care and fiscal integrity; participates in program planning for new projects</li>
<li>LEADERSHIP - Support Operating Room strategies to effect recruitment and retention; monitors the progress of new employees throughout the orientation phase and assists in adapting the program as necessary to meet individual and unit needs; maintain an environment and culture that enables delivery of high quality patient care</li>
<li>REGULATORY - Enforces regulatory standards in areas of supervision and implements in-service programs to support and comply with these standards</li>
<li>LEADERSHIP - Develops unit staffing patterns and time scheduling practices, which facilitate the delivery of consistent and efficient nursing care and comply with budgetary constraints and applicable policies according to individual patient acuity</li>
<li>COLLABORATION - Develops and maintains effective relationships with hospital departments providing support services; monitors services provided and collaborates in developing methods to improve utilization and efficiency</li>
<li>COMMUNICATION - Establishes and maintains effective formalized communication systems for information sharing, planning and problem solving with Unit Staff, Director and other departmental personnel</li>
<li>COMMITTEES - Participates on various committees; Communicates pertinent information to and from committees and/or groups to unit staff, peers and other department personnel</li>
<li>LEADERSHIP - Supports the goals, values, philosophies and objectives of the Hospital and maintains compliance with the standards for service excellence</li>
<li>PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols</li>
<li>PATIENT SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes</li>
<li>PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk</li>
<li>PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner</li>
<li>PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"</li>
<li>DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops</li>
</ul>
Qualifications
Education:
Essential:
<ul>
<li>Bachelor's Degree</li>
</ul>
Nonessential:
<ul>
<li>Master's Degree</li>
</ul>
Essential:
Education specialization:
<ul>
<li>Nursing</li>
</ul>
Nonessential:
<ul>
<li>Nursing</li>
</ul>
Experience:
Essential:
3 years directly related experience
Nonessential:
No preferred experience
Credentials:
Essential:
<ul>
<li>CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days</li>
<li>RN in NM or as allowed by reciprocal agreement by NM</li>
</ul>
Nonessential:
<ul>
<li>AORN Certification</li>
</ul>
Physical Conditions:
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Essential:
Working conditions:
<ul>
<li>No or min hazard, physical risk, office environment</li>
<li>Subject to an annual contract and performance appraisal</li>
<li>Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required</li>
</ul>

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