. Patient Care Responsibilities
- Plans, manages and evaluates the quality and delivery of patient care.
- Evaluates appropriate allocation and schedule of staff available resources to carry out the responsibilities of the Perioperative Services.
- Assists with the development of standards of care for all areas.
Evaluates outcomes relative to provision of nursing care.
- Planning
- Participates in planning developing and revising Policies and Procedures, objectives and standard of the Perioperative Services and hospital when needed.
- Assists the V.P. of the Patient Care Services Department in preparing an annual departmental and or unit budget addressing capital equipment, personnel, inventories, supplies and other costs.
- Ensures adequate staffing and scheduling of nursing personnel.
- Establishes departmental priorities in collaboration with other departments
Plans educational needs or the staff in collaboration with Nursing Education.
III. Organizing
- Demonstrates good organizational skills in the monitoring and implementation of department’s operational activities.
- Consistently demonstrates the ability to utilize all available resources in order to maximize patient care outcomes.
- Develops and maintains a system of records and reports that reflect the activities of the Peri-operative Services.
- Maintains division budget.
Ensures balance of care/staffing and overtime/agency usage.
IV Implementing
- Implements hospital, nursing, Perioperative and personnel policies.
- Coordinates needs of nursing with other departmental needs.
- Demonstrates the ability to work with the staff in devising more efficient methods and systems. Institutes changes in techniques and procedure, as necessary.
- Participates in the development of management and staff members.
- Collaborates with Nursing Education to ensure that all personnel participate in educational activities as required to meet all regulatory agency and state codes.
- Conducts regular meetings with the staff to address/resolve problems and issues.
- Interviews and participates in the hiring process of nursing personnel.
- Maintains effective channels of communication inter and intra-departmentally to refine programs and assists in resolving problems and issues.
- Participates in hospital departmental and nursing committee meetings.
Performs other duties as required.
- Monitoring/Maintaining
- Consistently interprets monitors and maintains professional standards and regulatory agencies requirements. Respond to regulatory agency citations as needed.
- Demonstrates the ability to evaluate scheduling and staffing coverage.
- Acts and maintains liaison between nursing other departments.
- Encourages and monitors accountability of personnel supervised.
- Evaluates staff performance annually and on ongoing basis.
- Counsels/advises staff members as necessary, follows labor relations guidelines and disciplining staff.
- Consistently communicates to the V.P., Patient Care Services Department, informing him or her of all significant events and problem resolutions in a timely fashion.
- Maintains appropriate documentation and record keeping of events, problems, conferences, counseling, etc.
- Regularly monitors the inventory, use of supplies and identifies potential savings through the appropriate use of substitution of products.
- Recognizes unsafe working conditions, implements preventive and corrective actions as necessary.
Directs, plans, and implements all action plans as discussed for unit performance improvement.
VI Professional Development
- Identifies own learning needs. Sets goal toward improvement.
- Consistently improves practice including but not limited to changes in institutional trends of professional trends and current literature.
- Seeks advanced formal or informal learning experiences independently.
- Fulfills responsibilities or position, seeking assistance as necessary.
- Completes all mandatory education.
- Professional portfolio received and accepted
Discussion occurred on Professional Progression opportunities
