Surgery Center Nurse Administrator

SUMMARY OF POSITION

As the Surgery Center Nurse Administrator, the Registered Nurse with a background in perioperative 

nursing and surgery center operations will report directly to the Medical Director and CEO and will 

oversee the planning, accreditation, organizing, and direction of this multi-state surgery center 

practice.

The Surgery Center Nurse Administrator will have the wonderful opportunity to autonomously 

coordinate and direct all daily surgery center operations. Overseeing 10 operating suites, the RN 

Administrator will have the pleasure of providing hands-on leadership to all RN and ancillary 

staff, ensuring policies and procedures are followed in accordance with regulatory agencies. This 

role will supervise all surgery center staff.

The Surgery Center Nurse Administrator will develop policy and procedures as well as participate in 

staff recruitment, retention, training, and evaluation.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

•  Clinical Leadership: Provide expert clinical guidance to the surgery center staff, including 

providers, medical assistants, and support personnel, ensuring adherence to best practices, safety 

protocols, and regulatory standards. Oversee and manage clinical flow, the interaction of all 

clinical staff, and all daily functions.

•  Surgical Team Coordination: Collaborate with surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other surgical 

team members to plan and execute surgical procedures effectively. Ensure proper patient 

positioning, instrumentation, and supplies.

•  Patient Care: Assess patient needs, create and implement individualized care plans, and monitor 

patients' physical and emotional well-being throughout the perioperative period.

•  Safety and Quality: Maintain a culture of safety and quality by enforcing aseptic techniques, 

infection control measures, and compliance with established policies and procedures. Participate in 

quality improvement initiatives.

•  Resource Management: Manage operating room resources efficiently, including staff scheduling, 

equipment maintenance, and supply inventory. Plan, post, and manage monthly staffing schedules. 

Assist in the selection and procurement of surgical supplies and equipment. Ensure all reports are 

done by deadline, (daily, weekly, and monthly). Responsible for successful completion and 

performance assignments per the Assigned Duties List.

•  Staff Development: Foster a learning environment by providing guidance, mentoring, and 

educational opportunities to the operating room team. Participate in staff evaluations and 

performance improvement activities.

WORK STYLES

•  Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.

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•  Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, 

cooperative attitude.

•  Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and 

direction.

•  Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling 

obligations.

•  Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to 

considerable variety in the workplace.

•  Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, 

and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.

•  Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

•  Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work 

tasks.

•  Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with 

high- stress situations.

•  Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related 

issues and problems.

•  Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.

•  Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with 

little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.

•  Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging 

achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.

•  Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being 

understanding and helpful on the job.

•  Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and 

answers to work-related problems.

•  Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone and being 

personally connected with others on the job.

WORK SKILLS

•  Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It 

does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.

•  Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another 

person.

•  Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or 

grouping things in different ways.

•  Fluency of Ideas — The ability to produce a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas 

is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

•  Originality — The ability to produce unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, 

or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

EQUIPMENT & SOFTWARE OPERATION

The incumbent in this position may operate any/all of the following equipment: Microsoft Outlook, 

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, fax, email, phone, NextGen, EMA

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

These specifications are general guidelines based on the minimum experience normally considered 

essential to the satisfactory performance of this job. Individual abilities may result in some 

deviation from these guidelines.

To perform effectively in this position, the incumbent must have:

•  Education — Undergraduate degree in nursing or related field.

•  Licensure — State Registered Nursing RN License – CA, AZ, NV

•  Experience — 5 years of healthcare management experience, Previous experience within an 

ambulatory surgery center accreditation

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•  Travel — ~30% of time

•  Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in 

strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production 

methods, and coordination of people and resources.

•  English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the 

meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

•  Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and 

personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, 

and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

•  Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel 

recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and 

personnel information systems.

•  Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, 

teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

•  Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic 

equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

•  Administrative — Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word 

processing, managing files and records, transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

•  Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic and how to apply.

•  Medicine — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human 

injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug 

properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

•  Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the 

financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

•  Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government 

regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

•  Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, 

personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the 

assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

•  Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and 

strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of 

people, data, property, and institutions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I have been given a copy of this position description. I understand that I may be asked to perform 

responsibilities and duties not listed in the description and that my duties may change at any 

time, according to the LA Laser Center needs. Nothing in this position description is intended to 

create a contract of employment of any type. Employment is strictly on an at-will basis.

Salary : $60,000 - $70,000