1. Demonstrates charge responsibilities by:

• a. Assisting Director of Surgical Services in facilitating OR schedule on a daily basis, making team assignments by making adjustments to accommodate add-on cases and absent personnel. (Daily assignments are made based upon staff competencies and needs.)
• b. Communicating on an on-going basis with Director of Surgical Services, Pre-Op, PACU, the scheduling coordinator, clerical staff, OR teams, surgeons and anesthesiologists regarding schedule changes, significant patient information, etc.
• c. Assisting in assuring physician, staff and patient satisfaction Using the nursing process to efficiently coordinate the addition of cases to the current day’s surgery schedule in conjunction with anesthesia and supervises the pulling of case preference cards from the Array system for these add on cases
• d. Overseeing selection of preference cards for the following day and assuring cases are pulled correctly and in a timely manner
• e. Verifying the availability of necessary equipment and instrumentation with the Materials Coordinator

2. Demonstrates leadership responsibilities by:

• a. Establishing and maintaining excellent working relationship with physicians, management, and staff with a focus on building strong teams, competent and caring staff, improving processes, clinical excellence and a customer-oriented environment
• b. Applies principles of transformational leadership and collaborative governance in all interactions with staff and the issues presented
• c. Collaborate with Director for department productivity, financial, quality and efficiency standards
• d. Lead the staff through changes in practice and environment being an active example

3. Monitors and Maintains performance Improvement initiatives by:

• a. Assists in monitoring standards of professional care in accordance with AORN, ASPAN, AMMI and other national standards

4. Assisting with patient care as needed including: circulating and/or scrubbing, required to take call as assigned including administrative call for Surgical Services and/or staff call.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.