Registered Nurse (RN) - Clinic Manager, OR - Operating Room - $23+ per hour

Children's Health (Dallas) is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Clinic Manager, OR - Operating Room for a nursing job in Dallas, Texas.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty : OR - Operating Room
• Discipline : RN
• Duration : Ongoing
• 36 hours per week
• Shift : 12 hours
• Employment Type : Staff

Job Title & Specialty Area : Operating Room Clinical Manager Registered Nurse

Department : Main Operating Room

Location : Dallas Campus

Shift : M - F; 10 : 30a - 7p

Job Type : On-Site

Why Children’s Health?

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.

Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary :

This position provides overall clinical and operational management in collaboration with the patient care area Director. Provides leadership for the patient care area(s) with specific operational and management oversight of the patient care area(s).

Accountable for the performance and results of the patient care area(s). Oversees the execution of short and long term strategies in support of organizational goals pertinent to department.

Establishes and ensures compliance with standards of clinical care, as well as maintains service line accountability for staffing, quality, safety, service and clinical excellence throughout the department.

Maintain integral relationships with medical staff leadership. Accountable for the implementation and proper application of policies, programs and services as established by federal and state regulatory bodies.

Researches, identifies and implements initiatives and opportunities to improve effectiveness of management, clinical and non-clinical research and patient / family centered care within the department.

Provides guidance, coaching and feedback to team members and coaches team leaders on effective management techniques. Makes employment decisions for the team, utilizing input from team leaders.

Monitors quality metrics and changes in practice that impact clinical, financial or operational outcomes and develops plans to address areas for improvement.

Monitors and manages a budget for defined area(s) of responsibility. Provides technical guidance to others as needed for non-routine and / or complex problems / situations.

Responsibilities :

Interviews and hires new team leaders and staff members. Administers annual PEACs / merit increases for direct reports.

Provides performance feedback to direct reports, including the documenting and counseling of performance issues. Maintains positive staff relations through Evidence Based Leadership and Just Culture.

Completes scouting reports and weekly rounding on direct reports. Ensures that direct reports are kept abreast of changes within the unit, department, division and organization.

Provides mentoring to direct reports and provides them with developmental opportunities that will help them achieve their career goals.

Administers disciplinary action to direct reports when necessary, up to and including termination of employment. Provides appropriate recognition to direct reports.

Develops and implements Action Plans as a result of the feedback received from the annual Employee Opinion Survey. Coordinating and developing of PEAC goals.

Ensures that all staff members in assigned area are responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating and coordinating patient care.

Uses clinical judgment based on nursing skills acquired through formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence based guidelines to globally assess situations and through critical thinking and clinical decision making, develop an appropriate plan of action to resolve situations that have been escalated.

Ensures that all staff members are accountable and that patient care meets the standards of safety, effectiveness, patient rights and guest relations.

Ensures that all staff members deliver competent and skilled care to patients and families according to their identified needs and does so with a team-orientation, an emphasis on good customer relations, sound clinical judgment and appropriate decision making abilities that take into consideration evidence based practice.

Approves mileage and education reimbursements for all staff on assigned units. Responsible for ensuring all units have adequate supplies.

Approves Lawson orders. Submits all Lawson personnel actions for direct reports. Submits Position Control requests. Monitors trends with attendance for direct reports and addresses any attendance issues in a timely manner.

Approves PTO requests for direct reports. Monitors FMLA / SRD / LOA for direct reports. Develops and maintains positive physician relations.

Review and sign off on bi-weekly payroll. Review NSI Dashboards on a monthly basis, communicate trends to leadership team and address any area of concern within assigned areas of responsibility.

Review NRC Picker reports, communicate trends to leadership team, and address any areas of concern within assigned areas of responsibility.

Ensures that budgets are adhered to for area of responsibility. Collaborates with Operations Business Partner and Director to research and explain variances to the budget for assigned area of responsibility.

Submit capital equipment requests.

Responsible for ensuring clean sweeps are conducted. Responsible for ensuring that appropriate audits are conducted. Ensures readiness for disease specific certifications audits (where applicable).

Ensures regulatory readiness for assigned areas. Ensures unit environmental rounds are conducted. Ensures staff licenses and certifications are not expired.

Ensures HR file and shadow files are up to date. Ensure that area of responsibility is ready for tracers and participate in the tracer process as necessary.

Review SafeLink. Ensures that Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected and secured at all times. Adheres to all infection prevention initiatives (i.

e. hand hygiene, proper disposal of waste, etc.).

Oversees staffing to ensure adequate coverage on every shift. Serve on-call in the event additional coverage is needed.

May work at the bedside during high census or Code Yellow.

Conduct family rounding (as it is rolled out to specific units). Address patient / family concerns / complaints in a timely fashion.

Update Stoplight Reports on a monthly basis to keep staff informed about progress of addressing concerns brought up through employee rounding.

Attend required leadership meetings. Manage unit-based and department based projects. Oversee unit / department based process improvement projects.

Review and modify Annual staffing plan. Advocates for the patient, represents the concerns of the patient / family and identifies and assists in resolving ethical and clinical concerns.

Maintains a body of knowledge and tools that allows the incumbent to manage whatever environmental and system resources exist for the patient / family and / or staff, within or across healthcare and non-healthcare systems.

Collaborates with physicians, families and staff to assist in