Operating Room Nurse Manager

Functional Accountabilities Grow

• Encourage and share new ways of making the right work easier to do
• Recognize and share incremental improvements in operations
• Promote the success of organizational and department initiatives by clearly aligning programs to the mission

Exemplary Practice

• Establishes collaborative relationships with all members of the healthcare team to ensure optimal state of health and well-being of the patients and families served.
• Utilizes expertise in cultural competency to enhance relationships, processes, and outcomes for patients/families, ensuring education through face to face or telephonic methods.
• Treats every patient/family with dignity and worth, acknowledging their individuality and autonomy.
• Engages opportunities to act in the best interest of the patient/family, building trust and confidence, while upholding moral and legal standards of due care.
• Consistently evaluates care delivery model, incorporating various sources of data, (e.g. patient satisfaction data) to improve processes.

Transformational Leadership

• Contributes to the development of departmental strategic plans. Supports and communicates the strategic plan to all employees.
• Uses budget tools to forecast and make decisions while analyzing and interpreting variances.
• Accountable for planning for staffing. Continuously monitors and adjusts staffing based on area needs. Uses trended data (e.g. labor productivity data) to manage the staffing plans.
• Assumes coverage of other areas when the need arises and assumes the responsibility, accountability and level of authority within authorized scope.
• Communicates and escalates clinical and administrative issues as appropriate to senior leadership
• Employs varied performance measures to analyze and enhance patient outcomes and staff/organization effectiveness.
• Ensures regulatory requirements are met and upholds overall safety standards of the work area

Structural Empowerment

• Responsible for full implementation of Shared Nursing Leadership and participates in Hospital wide committees.
• Promotes staff/unit involvement in the community.
• Coordinates mechanisms across systems, institutions, and community to provide continuity of care in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Employs critical attributes of effective collaboration to create, promote, and maintain an environment that supports successful partnership and high performance team outcomes.
• Develops and engages ongoing monitoring, and staff and member education to assure environmental management plans provide safe, accessible, effective and functional environment of care.

New Knowledge

• Ensures that the practice of nursing is based upon scientific evidence and best practice.
• Encourages staff participation in research.
• Encourages and facilitates professional certification and further education.