Administrative Nurse III - Surgical Services (OR) (Posted 11/12/2021) (Job ID #156123)

The University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics (UI Health) is seeking a Perioperative Nurse Manager to join their team of dedicated and highly skilled healthcare professionals. The Nurse Manager will assume accountability for translating the philosophy, objectives, policies and procedures of the organization into effective action. Responsibility is centralized within six major areas: leadership, clinical practice, professional development, strategic planning, and management of the environment and resources. The Nurse Manager provides an environment to support safe, high quality, patient and family centered care.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

The Nurse Manager assumes 24/7 accountability for unit operational oversight. The Nurse Manager provides the leadership and environment for staff to succeed, develop and integrate their visions, ideas and passions about patient care. As a team, they will achieve high quality, effective, and efficient patient care.

Leadership:

· Serves as a high visibility leader, role model and professional mentor; represents a positive image of the unit/practice area to the organization

· Ensures excellence in quality, safety and regulatory requirements

· Ensures patient care delivery is safe, of high quality and is cost effective

· Manages systems in order to accomplish patient, unit, departmental and institutional goals

· Effectively defines and communicates a vision of excellence for the unit/practice area

· Creates opportunities for multidisciplinary forums in order to solve problems and facilitate planning

· Embraces the concept of change and leads staff through the change process

· Seeks opportunities to build working relationships with other professional groups

· Communicate effectively with physicians to resolve issues and provide efficiency and smooth case flow.

· Responsible for patient and family satisfaction

· Facilitates and promotes achievement of unit based/practice area goals in line with the medical center mission

· Prepares employee schedules and assignments. Ensures safe, high quality and efficient operations are maintained

· Prepare, coordinate and perform staff huddles and meetings

Clinical Practice:

· Monitors and ensures excellence in the perioperative space

· Coordinates care with the multidisciplinary team to include surgeons, anesthesia, ancillary services, SPD and vendors

· Assures standards of care are consistently achieved on the unit/practice area

· Keeps current with literature regarding changing practices, interventions and research in patient care and health care delivery. Integrates nursing theory into all unit practices.

· Utilizes a performance improvement process to assess the response to care from patients, families, the multidisciplinary team, and others

· Develops and monitors systems that promote and support best practices

· Consults with patients and families in response to staff nurse requests, direct family requests and/or direct assessment of patient/family responses to hospitalization

· Interacts with staff nurses for the purpose of assessing the care provided and the nurses’ capabilities to provide care in changing circumstances

· Supervises the OR staff to provide a daily smooth flow of cases.

· Assists in coordination of daily case scheduling in the O.R. with other staff to ensure schedule will flow smoothly

· Orders instruments and equipment for cases. Coordinate inventory. Works closely with Materials Management and Sterile Processing Dept to coordinate supplies & instrument needs. Communicate with vendors and representatives for supplies, equipment or instruments that are needed for cases.

· Supervise the evening shift which includes coordination of the staff for case completions of the day and setting up for the next day.

· Communicate with physicians to resolve equipment or instrument issues by coordinating ordering or getting repairs done.

· Preparing and administering annual evaluations. Hiring and orienting OR staff members. Assistance with staff counseling as necessary. Coordinates and assists in Performance Improvement Projects

· Helps in revising and preparing policies that relate to O.R. functions

· Maintains compliance with Joint Commission standards

Professional Development:

· Creates an environment that supports and celebrates the staff’s professional growth Communicates and consistently supports, by behavior, the philosophy and goals of the unit department and the hospital

· Seeks out opportunities for forums that will meet the professional and clinical goals of staff and self. Assists with OR education by coordinating and/or giving in-services.

· Seeks guidance for appropriate resources in achieving unit and departmental goals.

· Demonstrates skills in identifying and negotiating conflict.

· Participates on and provides leadership to departmental and hospital committee as requested.

· Creates an environment that fosters collaborative relationships.

· Ensures clinical competence of staff.

· Supports the ongoing development of staff through coaching, mentoring and role modeling.

· Promotes staff’s participation in unit and hospital committees.

· Creates a unit culture that values and supports ongoing inquiry and learning.

· Provides timely feedback and evaluation to staff through formal and informal forums.

· Provides appropriate education and opportunities for development of unlicensed personnel.

Strategic Planning:

· Provides leadership in setting the direction of the unit and is responsive to changing internal and external factors

· Remains knowledgeable about external forces that are influencing health care and patient care management

· Utilizes relevant data and outcome measures in analysis and planning

· Develops unit goals and plans to respond to external and internal factors that affect the delivery of patient care

· Utilizes knowledge of patients, personnel and practice to plan initiatives that ensure positive patient outcomes in an effective and efficient manner

· Collaborates with other disciplines in practice initiatives to improve and maintain quality while managing costs

· Collaborates with other colleagues within the institution to insure the delivery of service to meets patient care needs

· Ensures all unit/practice area staff are trained and achieve medical center services standards

Management of the Environment:

· Establishes and maintains relationships and open communication with departments which provide support services to the clinical area in order to insure the appropriate level of service at all times

· Develops and participates in creating systems that monitor operational activities.

· Consults with other members of Management when unable to resolve environmental issues in a timely manner. Escalates as needed.

· Follows issues through until resolution occurs

Resource Management:

· Promotes responsible, creative and efficient use of resources; adheres to budget

· The Nurse Manager is accountable for managing human, fiscal and other resources needed to support clinical practice and positive patient outcomes

· On an ongoing basis, monitors and critically analyzes resource utilization of the unit

· Develops budget proposals based on the changing needs of the patient population and clinical programs

· Collaborates with physicians, hospital administrators, and other relevant groups on methods of delivering care

· Communicates with nursing staff on opportunities for expectations of cost-effective methods of delivering care

· Provides leadership in developing quality driven and cost-effective programs of care

· Selects unit staff and ensures that all members are competent to fulfill their assigned responsibilities. Overall responsibility for recruiting, staff retention, staff development and performance

· Adheres to appropriate staffing plan, accommodates to changing needs of the unit

· Utilizes knowledge of federal, state, hospital, unit and accreditation agencies standards, policies and procedures to direct patient care

· Ensures operational needs of the unit/practice area are met