Main function: Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Philosophy

• Supports the facility's ideology, mission, goals, and objectives
• Performs by the facility's policies and procedures
• Follows the facility's standards for ethical business conduct
• Conducts self as a positive role model and team member
• Recognizes patients' rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties
• Participates in facility committees, meetings, in-services, and activities

1. Communication

• Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers
• Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner

1. Financial practices

• Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices
• Reports wasteful practices
• Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements

1. Compliance program

• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization's adopted compliance program
• Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures

1. Performance-improvement program

• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization's adopted performance-improvement program
• Performs according to established performance-improvement policies and procedures
• Objectively evaluates suggestions, grievances, and processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and quality of care
• Participates in data collection activities to support the performance-improvement program

1. Safety/risk-management program

• Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure non-compliance to the safety officer or other designated person

1. Professional competence

• Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences
• Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff
• Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations
• Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities
• Participates in teaching programs in the facility for employees and physicians on topics of special interest and topics pertinent to outpatient surgery
• Researches and submits pertinent articles for review at staff meetings
• Assists with orientation and training of new personnel and acts as a resource person for problems related to patient care
• Welcomes suggestions and recommendations

1. Duties

• Participates as a team member in support of the total perioperative process
• Organizes time, equipment, supplies, and personnel to provide effective and efficientcase management
• Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room
• Organizes nursing activities efficiently and effectively
• Delegates activities appropriate to the abilities of available staff members
• Considers cost containment by using supplies economically and in effective turnover time
• Assists with supply, drug, and equipment inventories to maintain stock level and availability
• Addresses patient needs during admission to the operating room, with attention to requirements specific to the outpatient setting
• Transports patients to the operating room observing policies/procedures, safety requirements, and patient needs
• Identifies the patient and correct surgical intervention according to policy/procedure and communicates such information to all members of the surgical team
• Reviews patients' medical records/needs to plan care with other healthcare team members
• Provides comfort and reassurance to patient
• Maintains patients' privacy and dignity
• Explains intraoperative phase of routine procedures and care to the patient
• Performs the circulating nurse's role and functions following approved operating room procedures to meet the requirements of scheduled procedures
• Prepares operating room according to requirements of patient/procedure to be performed
• Assembles and provides properly functioning equipment, supplies, and instruments before start of procedure and positions and adjusts equipment as required during the procedure
• Anticipates needs of surgical team and assists anesthesia personnel by supporting patient during administration of anesthesia
• Assists with the proper and safe positioning of the patient and prepares operative site as directed by established procedures
• Monitors compliance with principles of aseptic technique according to accepted standards
• Assists with identification and confirmation of operative site
• Provides for comfort in the physical environment by monitoring designated parameters
• Provides continuity of patient care by communicating with other perioperative care personnel and documenting records accordingly
• Responds in a timely manner to meet the needs of the patient and physician
• Accurately comprehends and interprets verbal orders/directions
• Documents patient care records and other forms accurately following policies and procedures
• Accurately advises others responsible for care of the patient about patient's status

Qualifications

• Cooperative work attitude toward co-employees, management, patients, visitors, and physicians
• Ability to promote favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies, and general public
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems

Requirements

• High school graduate or GED certificate recipient
• Graduate of accredited school of nursing
• RN with active license in appropriate state
• BLS certified
• Leadership qualities
• Strong ethical and moral character references
• Language skills adequate for high-level written, interpersonal, and telephone communication in American English
• ACLS certification within one year of permanent employment

Preferred

• ASC and/or OR experience
• Computer literacy

Job quality Requirements

• Accuracy
• Attention to detail
• Timeliness
• Organization
• Leadership
• Physical stamina for working extra hours, if needed

Dependability

• Attendance
• Punctuality
• Ability to follow instructions
• Ability to meet deadlines

Physical/mental requirements

• Ability to sit/stand for long periods; ability to walk
• Visual and auditory acuity for frequent use of computer, telephone, and occasional use of other office equipment
• Capability for occasional overhead and low reaching
• Physical strength for equipment needs and patient-care activities
• Visual and auditory acuity for timely response and patient-care assessment activities
• Ability to move quickly in response to patient needs
• Ability to make constant/frequent judgments/respond to problems
• Ability to occasionally respond to disasters/emergencies, actual events, or drills

Working conditions (environmental)

• Well lit and ventilated, with non-hazardous and hazardous equipment
• Category I: involves occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids and materials

Reports to: RN Administrator/Clinical director

Contacts:

• Patients
• Patients' family/significant others
• Physicians and physician office personnel
• Facility personnel
• Vendors
• Administration
• Medical director
• Governing Body