Charge Nurse Operating Room

Shift: 6:45am - 5:15pm

Core Schedule: Tuesday - Friday

Job Summary:

Under the direction of the Surgical Services Manager, the Charge Nurse serves as a clinical resource for the Operating Room staff. The Charge RN works closely with, OR scheduling , OR Materials Manager, Sales Reps and surgeons to help meet the daily needs of our patients, by ensuring the timely ordering and arrival of equipment, supplies, instrumentation and implants. Is the resource person for staff in Operating Room, responsible for staff education and skills day for OR staff. Understands the processes with running the daily OR schedule. Requires on-call with a maximum response time of 30 minutes from notification.

Essential Duties:

• Promotes a strong belief in Mercy’s Mission and has respect for and compliance with Mercy’s Patient Rights Statement.
• Demonstrates behavior consistent with Mercy’s Core Values: Reverence, Integrity, Compassion, and Excellence.
• Incumbent has access to restricted or confidential patient information and must comply with the terms of the Mercy Medical Center Security Policies as it applies to their job role.
• Collaborates with immediate supervisor to establish, define and refine department goals and objectives consistent with facility’s Mission and Values, and demonstrates satisfactory progress towards these goals and objectives.
• Exhibits the ability to make effective decisions based on verifiable and measurable data/criteria.
• Promotes positive customer relations with internal and external customers.
• Demonstrates respect and sensitivity to cultural/social differences in interactions with others.
• Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates initiative and problem solving skills, using sound judgment.
• Assumes additional responsibilities as needed, with little or no direction, and shows initiative in assisting others within the department.
• Applies nursing process to direct patient care through assessment, analysis of collected data, development of a plan of care, and implementation and evaluation of effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relation to intended goal.
• Performs in-depth assessment of patients and is able to correlate information to plan for provision of needs in the Recovery Room department.
• Provides adequate information and instruction to the patient, and his/her significant other and family.
• Administers medications according to hospital policies and procedure to ensure patient safety. Follows safe medication administration using the 5 R’s: Right Medication, Right Patient, Right Dose, Right Route, Right Time.
• Skillfully applies the principles of asepsis and infection control.
• Promotes an environment conducive to patient and staff safety. Evaluates assigned unit for safety issues and completes weekly safety checks. Implements the protocol to be followed in the event of an internal or external disaster or threat as needed.
• Promotes positive patient satisfaction.
• Demonstrates knowledge and compliance with practices that protect the health care provider and reduce infection in the operating room setting.
• Oversees the surgery schedule for equipment and/or other specialty needs.
• Works closely with OR scheduling and Surgeon’s office to ensure appropriate equipment/instrumentation/implants are ordered and available on date surgery scheduled.
• Responsible for investigating and providing follow-up on OR Iris reports or Surgical Services Audit sheets.
• Serves as a clinical resource to all Operating Room Staff.
• Responsible for setting up in-services and Skills Day for Operating Room staff. Assist the Surgical Services Manager in coordinating staff filling out their yearly competencies, and accurately accessing their competency levels.
• Collaborates closely with the Surgical Services Manager and/or Director on unit specific performance improvement projects.
• Coordinates and develops plan for orientation of new team members, monitors progress and sets up meetings with mentors to provide feedback and receive feedback of new team members.
• Collaborates with Surgical Services Manager and/or Director to ensure department is in compliance with policies/procedures and regulatory standards (AORN, CMS, OSHA, The Joint Commission).

License/Certification:

• Current RN license issued by the State of Oregon.
• Must have current American Heart Association BLS for Health Care Providers and ACLS.
• Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR) preferred.

Experience:

• Five (5) years of current scrub and circulator experience in the Operating Room required.
• Charge or other leadership experience within the last three (3) years required.
• Kronos experience preferred.
• Must be familiar with multispecialty equipment, instrumentation and implants.
• Must be able to independently and competently manage crisis, patients and equipment.

Education:

• Associates Degree in Nursing required.
• AORN Peri-Op 101 course required within six (6) months of hire, preference is given to candidates who have completed the course prior to hire.