Operating Room Nurse Manager Robotics

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the #1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth for the sixth consecutive year, we invite you to continue your healthcare career with us at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. You’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for learning and advancement into leadership roles.

Join the UT Southwestern team as a Robotics Nurse Manager in the Operating Room! As part of our Magnet-designated nursing team, you will have the chance to work with world-renowned surgeons performing unique and life-changing surgeries. Helping to perform over 30,000 cases in 2022, our OR nurse managers work with solid-organ transplants, urology, orthopeadics, and more. Our state-of-the-art hospital has 59 operating rooms suites allowing us to provide outstanding patient care while coordinating with our surgical team for all operating room needs. At UT Southwestern Medical Center, our OR nurses assist in using cutting edge technology in the OR to help us merge together our mission to educate, discover, and heal. At UT Southwestern, the possibilities to explore your interests and advance your nursing career are limitless. We would love the opportunity to have you join the UT Southwestern operating room nursing team!

• BSN required, MSN preferred.
• 5 years management experience in Perioperative Services; certification in Perioperative Nursing (CNOR) preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC), and current Texas RN license required.

• Work requires ability to operate basic/standard pieces of OR equipment. Work requires basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and EMR

• Manages the daily patient care activities of the Operating Room.
• Assures efficient utilization of OR resources by proactively managing the long-range (4-6week) patient schedule in collaboration with anesthesiology directors and surgeons.
• Supervises & evaluates staff through observation of performance. Ensures competency of new employees & performs annual evaluations. Conducts coaching & counseling sessions with employees following hospital policies & guidelines. Identifies learning needs/opportunities of staff and addresses the need. Identifies, supports & implements cross training of staff in collaboration with directors & the education department.
• Collaborates to ensure accountability for nursing standards, evidence based practice, & regulations. Responsible for regulatory readiness of the department at all times.
• Assures adequate fiscally & clinically responsible daily staffing. Assures department meets its productivity benchmark.
• Responds to emergency situations & initiates appropriate responses as necessary. Remains calm and continue to provide leadership & a sense of professionalism during emergency situations.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Work is performed primarily in a hospital/clinical setting. Routine walking, climbing, and lifting.

The following is the acronym, "PACT", and is fundamental to all non-clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:

• P-Problem Solving: Employees take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently, and to the satisfaction of customers, or managers. They show initiative in addressing areas of concern before they become problems.
• A-Ability, Attitude and Accountability: Employees exhibit ability to perform their job and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner reflecting a professional environment readily assuming obligations in a dependable and reliable manner. 
• C-Communication, Contribution, and Collaboration: Who are our Customers? Anyone who requests our help, needs our work product, or receives our services. Employees focus on customer service with creative solutions while improving the customer experience through clear, courteous, and timely delivery and communication. Sharing ideas with others helps expand our contribution to department goals.
• T-Teamwork: Employees work to contribute to the department’s success by supporting co-workers, promoting excellence in work product and customer service, and in maintaining a satisfying, caring environment for each other.

Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimums require prior approval of the Vice President for Human Resources Administration, or his/her designee.

This position is security-sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code §51.215.

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