TravelNurseSource is working with Cynet Health to find a qualified Nurse Manager RN in Rowlett, Texas, 75088!
Job Title: Manager, Nursing Operating Room
Profession: Registered Nurse
Specialty: Manager Nursing
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: AM
Hours per Shift: 8
Experience: 3 years of peri-operative experience
License: BSN
Certifications: BLS
Must-Have: Leadership in ORs, knowledge of procedures in Ortho, Robotics, Endo
Description:
The Manager, Nursing Operating Room Registered Nurse is responsible for creating and sustaining a healthy work environment for assigned nursing personnel.
This role fosters excellent professional nursing practice, shared decision-making, interprofessional teamwork, and collaboration.
The manager plans, develops, implements, evaluates, and monitors policies and procedures, budgets, and resource allocation.
They lead continuous quality and performance improvement initiatives, educational programs, and shared governance councils.
Provides nursing care as needed.
Essential Functions of the Role:
The manager develops and articulates a vision for nursing practice for their area of responsibility.
They engage supervisors and staff in developing and implementing departmental goals and objectives.
Creates, fosters, and sustains a healthy work environment through shared governance structures that support evidence-based nursing practice and research.
Facilitates the professional development of staff through role modeling, teaching, and mentoring.
Ensures staff members maintain competency based on standards of practice for the patient population served.
Communicates timely new/revised protocols, policies, and procedures to staff.
Quality, Evidence-based Practice, and Research:
Maintains current knowledge in evidence-based clinical and leadership practices.
Analyzes and evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice based on various indicators.
Facilitates practice changes using evidence-based practices and research findings.
Identifies, proposes, and conducts clinical research.
Caring Practices/Service Excellence:
Creates and sustains a compassionate, supportive, safe, and therapeutic environment.
Analyzes patterns and trends from departmental patient care conferences and outcome data.
Implements changes to ensure best caring practices.
Champions service excellence initiatives and ensures consistent implementation by staff.
Response to Diversity:
Identifies issues arising from individual differences and develops awareness among nursing staff and other health care providers.
Role models and teaches age-specific and developmentally-appropriate patient care.
Identifies and resolves conflicts affecting performance and the work environment.
Advocacy and Moral Agency:
Advocates on behalf of the nursing staff to represent the concerns of patients and staff.
Fosters an ethical practice environment based on optimal communication and teamwork.
Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
Facilitation of Learning:
Monitors the learning needs of staff and assists in educational program design.
Facilitates learning for patients, families, nursing staff, and the community.
Collaboration:
Role models, teaches, and mentors professional leadership and accountability.
Leads and participates in departmental, hospital, and system-wide programs and projects.
Collaborates with medical and allied health staff to ensure safe, quality care.
Systems Thinking:
Integrates knowledge of organizational mission, goals, and systems into strategies.
Analyzes and prioritizes competing demands to best meet the needs of the patient population and staff.
Professionalism:
Improves nursing practice through participation in shared governance and decision-making processes.
Seeks opportunities for lifelong learning through continuing education and professional activities.
Contributes to the professional development of peers and colleagues.
Achieves national board certification in specialty within two years of appointment.
Key Success Factors:
Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards.
Familiarity with laws, rules, regulations, and standards governing nursing care.
Knowledge of medical terminology and principles of health promotion and disease prevention.
Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing.
Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care.
Ability to make operational decisions and evaluate policies affecting the organization.
General computer skills including Microsoft Office and electronic medical documentation.
The information contained in this job description is intended to describe the essential functions required of the role.
It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and capabilities needed to perform the job.