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FTE: 1.000000

Shift: Days

Location: RIVERSIDE 400 BUILDING

Summary:

The SPL Team Leader is a registered professional nurse who plans, directs, and evaluates the nursing process and related activities to ensure that all facets of the plan of care are implemented via appropriate delegation. In collaboration with the Director of Perioperative Services, the team leader plans a standard of care and safe practices for patients in special procedures and the radiology (modalities) departments.

Licensure/Educational Requirements:

• RN required, BSN preferred

Competencies

• Mentors others in all aspects of the nursing practice

• Maintains the daily/monthly staffing and call schedules

• Maintains accurate time keeping records

• Inputs daily staffing numbers into SMR

• Effectively leads daily SPL huddle

• In collaboration with Director, maintains accurate biweekly position control

• Understands the Time Out process for procedural patients

• Assists in procedural cases when necessary or during times of high volume

• Effectively utilizes AIDET when rounding on patients and families.

• Understands the chain of command for patient complaints and grievances

• Understands the ordering process for supplies (i.e. forms, office supplies, storeroom)

• Manages process for sending scopes out for repair

• May assist Director in obtaining quotes for instruments and supplies

• Maintains accurate reporting logs for the Medivator and submits to Director monthly

• In collaboration with the Director, reviews department policies and procedures

• Maintains department adherence to isolation precautions and protocols

• May be asked to participate in meetings or committees as deemed necessary by the Director

• Performs medication discrepancy/narcotic inventory weekly

• Checks crash carts and tests them daily

• Utilizes Rivernet resources: Credential Stream, ecards, connection cards, service requests, Daisy / Starfish / Butterfly nominations, etc.

· Knowledge of Vendor process for SPL Knowledge of SPD sterile room and instrument drop off process

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates care delivery through the utilization of department, organization and community models and resources; critical thinking; interdisciplinary teamwork; patient advocacy; and the unique nurse-patient connection, and identifies and uses available resources to define and implement the plan of care.
• Serves a resource for all staff with regards safe practice, adherence to policy, resource management, staffing and conflict resolution.
• Detects and collects comprehensive data and identifies patterns pertinent to the patient's health and unique situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes, based on the patient's individualized situation and anticipated needs.
• In collaboration with the Director, the team leader will positively effect change through engagement, involvement, and participation of peers and colleagues, leading others where they need to be rather than where they want to go (American Nurses Credentialing Center [ANCC]).
• Enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice through communication, documentation, initiation of change, creativity, innovation, participation in quality improvement (QI), evidence-based practice (EBP), and research processes.
• Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to the Illinois Nurse Practice Act and professional practice standards and guidelines.
• Implements the identified plan based on the nursing process, our nursing mission and philosophy, and our organization's mission.
• Maintains the ability to check in vendors and visitors and communicate our policies while also holding them accountable.
• Creates and manages the daily SPL and Radiology schedules with consideration to optimal utilization, staff training, mandatory meetings and orientation.
• Creates and manages the call schedule by distributing call amongst the staff fairly and evenly.
• Creates and manages the staffing schedule with consideration to block utilization and call needs, and time off requests.
• Maintain accurate time keeping and WFM reports in conjunction with the daily shift management reports (SMR).
• Equally distributes work assignments to staff without bias and consideration to their skill level or training needs.
• Collaborates effectively with anesthesia to run the daily schedule and prioritize case timing.
• Maintains a professional attitude in times of distress or urgency while still maintaining efficiency.
• Communicates effectively with the SPL and Radiology teams: surgeons, proceduralists, staff and anesthesia.
• Upholds and supports organizational policies as well as inform the Director when issues arise related to staff adherence to policy.
• Serves as an informal leader, modeling characteristics and behaviors that would be expected for each team member.
• Accepts challenges as a means to identify improvement in efficiencies and safer patient care.
• Reports matters in a timely manner to the Perioperative Services Director when necessary. Knows when to activate the chain of command.
• Leads discussions without bias and presents the facts. Encourages rationality and understanding amongst the staff.
• Reports immediately to Director any performance / adherence to policy issues with staff
• Maintains the needs of the department; reporting failed equipment, faulty supplies, back ordered items, and substitutions.
• Assists in performing unit audits as deemed necessary by the Director.
• In collaboration with Director, the team leader will participate in the interview process
• Is a change agent and promotes and encourages process improvement.
• Understands and utilizes the error reporting system is not punitive, but a tool to promote process improvement.
Understands that role is not limited to what is listed in the job description, and that team work is defined by doing whatever is necessary to promote efficiencies, and provide safe patient care.

Riverside Healthcare is revolutionizing care using leading-edge technology to diagnose and treat patients. We are ranked top in the nation for performance in neurosurgery, orthopedics, and heart surgery and have also been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics seven times. Riverside is nationally recognized for our specialty programs in obstetrics, trauma, oncology, rehabilitation, geriatrics, occupational health, psychiatric services, and treatment of alcohol and chemical dependency, as well as patient safety. We combine innovation and convenience at state-of-the-art facilities located in communities throughout the greater Kankakee area.

Riverside Medical Center proves that truly progressive medicine is being delivered in Chicago's southwest suburbs and East Central Illinois. Join a team that is not only concerned with providing the best care possible but also with offering a work environment of advancement and growth. Riverside is a place that embraces a culture where opinions count and dedications is respected, where superior performance is rewarded with competitive salaries and excellent benefits.

Other information:

Exposure/Sensory Requirements

Exposure to:

Chemicals: Disinfectant, room deodorizer, glutaraldehyde
Video Display Terminals: Average
Blood and Body Fluids: Limited unless assisting in patient care areas. Then appropriate universal precautions are used for all procedures greatly reducing the risk to personnel.
TB or Airborne Pathogens: Extreme potential for exposure with each procedure, however, universal precautions are used on all cases thus greatly reducing the risk to personnel.

Sensory requirements (speech, vision, smell, hearing, touch):
Speech: Needed for presentations/training, telephone communication, facilitate meetings.
Vision: Required to read memos and literature.
Smell: Helpful to detect electrical fire problems, presence of fumes.
Hearing: Necessary for telephone communication, meetings, listening to employee concerns, alarms (e.g., fire, Code 33), intercom information.
Touch: Necessary for writing, computer entry, filing.

Activity/Lifting Requirements

Average Hours per Week:40

Shift: Days

Percentage of time during the normal workday the employee is required to:
Sit: 10%
Twist: 4%
Stand: 40%
Crawl: 0%
Walk: 25%
Kneel: 1%
Lift: 10%
Drive: 0%
Squat: 1%
Climb: 1%
Bend: 30%
Reach above shoulders: 3%

The weight required to be lifted each normal workday according to the continuum described below:
Up to 10 lbs: Frequently
Up to 20 lbs: Frequently
Up to 35 lbs: Frequently
Up to 60 lbs: Occasionally
Up to 75 lbs: Not Required
Up to 100 lbs: Not Required
Over 100 lbs: Not Required

Describe and explain the lifting and carrying requirements. (Example: the distance material is carried; how high material is lifted, etc.): Lifting of patients off their beds that are unable to move independently is done with assistive lifting equipment. Horizontal movement of patients to and from carts/beds who are unable to move independently is done with assistive lifting equipment. Lifting equipment-carry 25-150' - waist high (IV bags, patient trays). Carry charts 25-150' waist high. Filled laundry bags are filled half full so as not to weight over 35 lbs. Carry fire extinguishers up or down 3-4 flights of stairs and several yards in an emergency.

Maximum consecutive time (minutes) during the normal workday for each activity:
Sit: 30
Twist: 15
Stand: 60
Crawl: 0
Walk: 15
Kneel: 0
Lift: 5
Drive: 0
Squat: 5
Climb: 1
Bend: 15
Reach above shoulders: 5

Repetitive use of hands (Frequency indicated):
Simple grasp normal weight: up to 15lbs.; Normal weight 5-10 lbs Frequently
Pushing & pulling Normal weight: 50-200 lbs Occasionally
Fine Manipulation: Computer keyboard used for order entry & charting; using pens to chart; drawing up meds in syringe and administration; starting IV's; suctioning patients; insert Foleys and N-G tube.

Repetitive use of foot or feet in operating machine control: Leg strength - up to 50 lbs: Occasionally - operating machine control utilized in positioning beds during transport; x-ray, surgery or in an emergency situation from floor to floor, locking beds or cardiac chairs.

Environmental Factors & Special Hazards

Environmental Factors (Time Spent):

Inside hours: 10
Outside hours : 0

Temperature: Normal Range
Lighting: Average
Noise levels: Average
Humidity: Normal Range
Atmosphere: Fumes, odors

Special Hazards: Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Radiation Sterilizers, both steam and chemical, electrical equipment, Bovies, Infrequent portable x-rays/fluoro in OR rooms and PACU.
Protective Clothing Required: X-ray jackets/shields as indicated for exposure.