SUPERVISION: Reports directly to the Director of Surgical Services
DESCRIPTION OF POSITION/ RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
- Works with physician’s office and scheduling to match surgeon procedures with proper preference cards and associated billing per specialty.
- Responsible for specialty program development in the OR, planning, organizing, implementation, assessment, patient flow and performance improvement of the service line.
- The coordinator is responsible for utilization of hospital services, staff education and training regarding specialty.
- Functions as role model in the use of nursing process and develops, introduces and evaluates new approaches to evidence based standards for specialty.
- Demonstrates knowledge of surgical procedures and has the ability to oversee the instrumentation and equipment, maintain surgical preference cards for specialty.
- Assist the operating room educator with the development and implementation of policies, procedures and facility practices.
- Helps prepare the facility by ensuring that necessary equipment is present and continually maintaining surgical inventory.
- Assist with maintaining proper inventory levels and cost containment for specialty.
- Participate in unit/departmental problem solving and improvement of operating room systems.
- Reports operating room clinical variances and environmental safety hazards to the Operating Room Director and follows up with necessary action.
- Analyzes and evaluates nursing services to improve quality of care provided.
- Healthy Workforce Champion.
- Taking call is required for this position.
The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.
EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
- Graduate of approved School of Nursing.
- Current Louisiana Registered Nurse license or Multi-State compact license
- Experience as a Circulator in the Operating Room is required.
- CPR Certification.
- Ability to read, write and speak intelligible English; Ability to learn quickly, analyze problems and communicate effectively with superiors, peers, and others on one-to-one basis.
- Requires emotional stability and resilience; Must be adaptable to change, be decisive, and demonstrate foresight.
- Must be adaptable to change and receptive to delegated responsibilities; Possesses basic problem solving skills.
Physical Demands/Work Environment
- Work requires a variety of physical activities including standing and walking for sustained periods, bending and stooping, and some lifting of 50-100 pounds at a time.
- The work environment may be physically confining.
- Many nursing skills require acute hearing ability, i.e. listening with stethoscope to breath sounds and heart sounds.
- Must be able to exchange accurate information with patient, family, peers and medical personnel.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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