Interim Manager, Perioperative Services (Santa Clara)

HCT seeks an experienced nursing professional to serve as the Interim Perioperative Services Nurse Manager, at a 300+ bed facility in Northern California. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

• Manages and provides operational and nursing leadership and guidance, ensuring the quality of nursing care within preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative areas.
• Provides patient care and acts as a resource person to the staff and assures patient care needs are met in the department.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills and, in collaboration with other disciplines, surgeons, anesthesiologists, is able to coordinate unit activities, staffing plans and contributes to resolving inter and intra departmental problems.
• Assesses the quality of care delivered and provides input for staff mentoring / evaluation, staffing, hiring, performance management and general daily operation of the unit.

Requirements :

Expenses covered while on assignment including housing, airfare, and rental car.