Job Description
SKIN AND CANCER INSTITUTE
JOB DESCRIPTION
| Job Title: | Surgery Center Nurse Administrator | Status: | Full-Time |
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SUMMARY OF POSITION
As the Surgery Center Nurse Administrator, the Registered Nurse with a background in perioperative nursing and surgery center operations will report directly to the Medical Director and CEO and will oversee the planning, accreditation, organizing, and direction of this multi-state surgery center practice.
The Surgery Center Nurse Administrator will have the wonderful opportunity to autonomously coordinate and direct all daily surgery center operations. Overseeing 10 operating suites, the RN Administrator will have the pleasure of providing hands-on leadership to all RN and ancillary staff, ensuring policies and procedures are followed in accordance with regulatory agencies. This role will supervise all surgery center staff.
The Surgery Center Nurse Administrator will develop policy and procedures as well as participate in staff recruitment, retention, training, and evaluation.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
- Clinical Leadership: Provide expert clinical guidance to the surgery center staff, including providers, medical assistants, and support personnel, ensuring adherence to best practices, safety protocols, and regulatory standards. Oversee and manage clinical flow, the interaction of all clinical staff, and all daily functions.
- Surgical Team Coordination: Collaborate with surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other surgical team members to plan and execute surgical procedures effectively. Ensure proper patient positioning, instrumentation, and supplies.
- Patient Care: Assess patient needs, create and implement individualized care plans, and monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being throughout the perioperative period.
- Safety and Quality: Maintain a culture of safety and quality by enforcing aseptic techniques, infection control measures, and compliance with established policies and procedures. Participate in quality improvement initiatives.
- Resource Management: Manage operating room resources efficiently, including staff scheduling, equipment maintenance, and supply inventory. Plan, post, and manage monthly staffing schedules. Assist in the selection and procurement of surgical supplies and equipment. Ensure all reports are done by deadline, (daily, weekly, and monthly). Responsible for successful completion and performance assignments per the Assigned Duties List.
- Staff Development: Foster a learning environment by providing guidance, mentoring, and educational opportunities to the operating room team. Participate in staff evaluations and performance improvement activities.
- Education — Undergraduate degree in nursing or related field.
- Licensure — State Registered Nursing RN License – CA, AZ, NV
- Experience — 5+ years of healthcare management experience, Previous experience within an ambulatory surgery center accreditation
- Travel — ~30% of time
WORK STYLES
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone and being personally connected with others on the job.
PHYSICAL and MENTAL DEMANDS ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Explanation : Each physical requirement is rated on a frequency scale of 0-3 to reflect the requirements for normal working hours. Reasonable accommodation will be considered on an individual basis.
| Physical Requirements Frequency rating: 0. None (0%) 1. Occasional (1-33%) 2. Frequently (34-66%) 3. Constant (67-100%) |
| A. Sitting | 2 | J. Wrist Deviation (Side to Side) | 2 |
| B. Standing | 1 | K. Hand/Wrist Repetitions (Up/Down) | 2 |
| C. Walking | 2 | L. Reaching | 1 |
| D. Grasping Simple: < 25 pounds Firm: >25 pounds | 0 0 | M. Manual Dexterity/Strength Gross motor, light-moderate strength Gross motor, moderate -heavy strength Fine motor, light - moderate strength Fine motor, moderate-heavy strength | 1 1 |
| E. Squatting/Kneeling/Crawling/ Climbing | 1 0 | M. Twisting/Bending | 1 |
| F. Pulling Up to 10 lb. Up to 25 lb. Up to 50 lb. Up to 100 lb. Over 100 lb. | 1 0 0 0 0 | O. Lifts and Carries Up to 10 lb. Up to 25 lb. Up to 50 lb. Up to 100 lb. Over 100 lb. | 1 0 0 |
| G. Lifts Overhead Up to 10 lb. Up to 25 lb. Up to 50 lb. Up to 100 lb. Over 100 lb. | 0 0 0 0 0 | P. Pushing Up to 10 lb. Up to 25 lb. Up to 50 lb. Up to 100 lb. Over 100 lb. | 1 0 0 |
| H. Visual Requirements Close eye work (small figures) Near sightedness Color discrimination Minimal color discrimination Normal color discrimination Other _________________ | 2 2 0 0 | Q. Hearing Requirements Must consistently fulfill communication needs; i.e., telephone Speech Recognition | 3 3 |
| I. Comprehension - Oral Comprehension
- Written Comprehension
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to produce a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Originality — The ability to produce unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
| 2 2 2 2 | R. Professional Expression - Oral Expression
- Written Expression
- Speech Clarity
- Inductive Reasoning
- Information Ordering
| 2222 |
| WORKING CONDITIONS |
| S. Driving | 1 | T. Other: ____________________ | 0 |
WORK SKILLS
EQUIPMENT & SOFTWARE OPERATION
The incumbent in this position may operate any/all of the following equipment:
Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, fax, email, phone, NextGen, EMA
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
These specifications are general guidelines based on the minimum experience normally considered essential to the satisfactory performance of this job. Individual abilities may result in some deviation from these guidelines.
To perform effectively in this position, the incumbent must have:
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Administrative — Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic and how to apply.
- Medicine — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
- Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
- Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I have been given a copy of this position description. I understand that I may be asked to perform responsibilities and duties not listed in the description and that my duties may change at any time, according to the LA Laser Center needs. Nothing in this position description is intended to create a contract of employment of any type. Employment is strictly on an at-will basis.
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Job Tags
Full time, Contract work, Local area,