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An established industry player in children's health is seeking a dedicated Lead Registered Nurse for their Operating Room in Dallas. This role involves providing operational leadership, ensuring quality patient care, and collaborating with healthcare professionals to deliver exceptional service. With a commitment to making life better for children, this position offers a unique opportunity to impact the lives of young patients and their families. Join a team that values your contributions and fosters a supportive work environment while promoting health and wellness in the community.
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Children's Health (Dallas) is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) OR - Operating Room Lead for a nursing job in Dallas, Texas.
Job Description & RequirementsChildren's Health (Dallas) is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) OR - Operating Room Lead for a nursing job in Dallas, Texas.
Job Description & RequirementsJob Title & Specialty Area: Operating Room Charge Registered Nurse
Department: Perioperative
Location: Dallas Campus
Shift: Mid-Shift; Monday - Thursday, 10:45am - 9:15pm - no call, but does cover two holidays a year.
Job Type: On-Site
Why Children’s Health?
At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.
Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.
Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.
Summary:
This job is responsible for providing on-site operational leadership and shift management of Dallas OR staff. Ensures excellent care by making appropriate assignments to balance workload and by directly supporting RN's, Surgical Techs, and support staff assigned to the shift. Provides direct patient care as required to manage volume and required procedures. Utilizes the nursing process in the delivery of care. Works in collaboration with other healthcare professionals to provide a comprehensive plan of care to meet the patient/family needs.
Responsibilities:
* Operational Responsibilities:
* Plan for and operationalize resources to meet projected clinical staffing requirements (Know and utilize operational reports such as EPIC workbench, Kronos work force scheduler, Kronos Timecard, etc…) Reports to leadership team every shift operational status of the department.
* Practices financial stewardship in planning and managing resources before and continuously throughout each clinical shift
* Coordinates OR staffing with other operational leaders on a shift by shift basis
* Coordinates staffing, supplies and equipment for all ECMO, stroke, CV and IR (after hours) on a shift to shift basis
* Works with necessary personnel to address issues by problem solving; escalates as needed to the OR Manager
* and/or Perioperative Services Director and/or Senior Director.
* Understands, adheres and promotes adherence by others to National Patient Safety Goals; hospital, division and department patient safety standards and initiatives.
* Assures timely reporting of events occurring on shift.
* Actively engage in assuring regulatory readiness throughout the shift, including preparing and presenting regulatory readiness education to all clinical staff, and validating staff understanding,
* Seek out opportunities for service excellence and recovery and assure effective actions are taken with a plan for follow-up to closure is in place prior to the end of the assigned shift
* Identify and remove barriers and issues affecting patient flow; including optimum patient placement and facilitating or assisting with internal patient transports
* Provide initial management of employee performance issues and escalates findings to employee team leader and/or manager.
* Coordinates assigning all add on cases with the Anesthesia Board Runner
* Monitor and coordinate OR instrument/equipment management processes to assure sufficient levels of instruments/equipment and supplies.
* Responsible for responding to all trauma alert activations
* Initiate and coordinate daily OR Huddle reviewing next day cases to ensure we have appropriate staffing, equipment, instruments and supplies
* Coordinates with Surgeons and Anesthesia daily to ensure cases start on time and OR utilization is maximized.
* Quality Assurance and Process Improvement Responsibilities:
* Actively participate in the development of quality assurance indicators and monitor those within the scope of assigned clinical practice
* Collaborate on a daily basis with members of other disciplines in process improvement or other multi-disciplinary quality and safety initiatives
* Monitor and promote utilization and adherence to protocols and Clinical Practice Guidelines
* Participates in Nursing shared governance councils or assigned hospital committees
* Coordinates all vendors and non-OR staff to meet AORN and accreditation regulatory requirements
* Direct Patient Care Responsibilities:
* Responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating and coordinating patient care. Uses clinical judgment based on nursing skills acquired through formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence based guidelines to globally assess the patient's situation and through critical thinking and clinical decision making, develop an appropriate plan of care for the patient, with the aim of promoting comfort.
* Accountable that patient care meets standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations.
* Oversees care delivered by patient care team; coordinates plan of care.
* Provides education and facilitates learning for patients, families, and patient care team in a way that demonstrates a sensitivity to recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences related to diversity.
* Collaborates with physicians, families and other healthcare professionals to assist in developing and implementing an appropriate plan of care in a way that promotes/encourages each person's contributions towards achieving the best patient outcomes.
How You’ll Be Successful:
WORK EXPERIENCE
* At least 3 years Previous OR experience in an acute care setting Required
EDUCATION
* Four-year Bachelor's degree in Nursing Required
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
* Current license to practice professional nursing in the State of Texas Required
* Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers as required by CP 1.20 Life Support Course Requirements Required
* PALS/NRP/ACLS (Department specific requirements - see addendum) Required
A Place Where You Belong
We put our people first. We welcome, value, and respect the beliefs, identities and experiences of our patients and colleagues. We are committed to delivering culturally effective care, creating meaningful partnerships in the communities we serve, and equipping and developing our team members to make Children’s Health a place where everyone can contribute.
Holistic Benefits – How We’ll Care for You:
· Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.
· 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure
· Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
· Caregiver Leave
· Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
As an equal opportunity employer, Children's Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran or military status, disability, or genetic information or any other Federal or State legally-protected status or class. This applies to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer pay, training, discipline, workforce adjustments, termination, employee benefits, and any other employment-related activity.
Children's Health (Dallas) Job ID #23578. Posted job title: RN OR Shift Lead
About Children's Health (Dallas)At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children for 110 years, and generation to come. We recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.
Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community.
Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.
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