Perioperative Nurse Manager: Leadership & Care Excellence

Atlantic Health; Hackettstown (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health is seeking an experienced peri-operative nurse leader to oversee day-to-day management and long-term planning of peri-operative patient care. The role includes directing staff, collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary teams, and providing physical and psychological support to patients and families.

The successful candidate will promote quality care, enforce policies, recruit and train nursing staff, and ensure infection-control compliance while maintaining records and

Responsibilities

• Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
• Maintains peri-operative nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care.
• Maintains and manages nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families and promoting patient's independence by establishing patient care goals and providing information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests.
• Protects patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection-control policies and protocols, enforcing medication administration, storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records and maintains patient confidence by monitoring confidential information processing.
• Achieves financial objectives and ensures emergency equipment availability/nursing supplies and completing preventive maintenance requirements.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge and maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Job description

Atlantic Health is seeking an experienced peri-operative nurse leader to oversee day-to-day management and long-term planning of peri-operative patient care. The role includes directing staff, collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary teams, and providing physical and psychological support to patients and families.

The successful candidate will promote quality care, enforce policies, recruit and train nursing staff, and ensure infection-control compliance while maintaining records and