RN Periop-Procedural Coordinator - Rutledge Tower Operating Room - GYN & Urology

Job Description Summary

Rutledge Tower Operating Room (RT OR) is designed with 9 OR suites to accommodate care for adult surgical services. RT OR is a smoke free environment and recipients of the AORN Go Clear Award.

Our unit is open Monday through Friday and closed on weekends and major holidays. Nurses in our unit deliver care to a diverse patient population for both inpatient and outpatient procedures. We provide services for many specialties to include ENT, Oral Surgery, Adult Dentistry, Ophthalmology, Plastics, Gynecology, Urology, Pain Management, Orthopedics, Surgical Oncology, Endocrine, Colorectal, minimally invasive surgery, and Robotics. Our OR staff is comprised of 95% Registered Nurses, trained to both circulate and scrub, and 5% Certified Surgical Technologists. Our unit is a nurse-driven, magnet facility designed to provide excellence in nursing care.

Entity

Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type​

Regular

Cost Center

CC000564 CHS - OR - Ambulatory (RT)

Pay Rate Type

Hourly

Pay Grade

Health-29

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Job Description

Hours per week: 40
Scheduled Work Hours/Shift: Days. Monday-Friday. No nights, weekends, or major holidays.
Fair Labor Standards Act Status: Hourly
Job Summary/Purpose: The Perioperative Services RN Periop-Procedural Team Coordinator supports and is expected to be proactive within their service line team/department to achieve the unit and organization goals. Goals include achievement of clinical and quality measures, operational efficiency, financial targets, reduction and elimination of supply and care variation via trialing and collection of evaluations of products; Care Team Member [CTM] retention and recruitment; Employee engagement; Serving as an educational resource
to the team while following AORN best practices and guidelines; Coordinate and collaborates with SPD leadership in a solution team driven manner to create and maintain a culture of teamwork and safety; Lead/Co-Lead the Working Specialty Groups [WSGs] and ensure CTMs attended regularly and opportunities/issues and solutions are memorialized in minutes and communicated to local Perioperative Operations Group [POG]; Participate in S3/RCA events including action planning, education and audits specific to the service; Work collaboratively with other coordinators, charge nurses, SPD & Periop-Procedural units to provide staffing solutions to meet the needs of all
Periop areas.
The RN Periop-Procedural Team Coordinator is also responsible for adequate staff and ensuring staff competency specific to the service line, equipment, and processes. The coordinator will also be responsible for requesting and posting job vacancies within their service via the FTE Request System. They will be responsible for monitoring OurDay and reviewing posted positions daily for new candidates and interviewing candidates within 1-3 days. The RN Periop-Procedural Team Coordinator will collaborate to work with the Nursing
Professional Development team with new-hire onboarding, service specific competencies training, etc. The coordinator will provide constructive feedback and direction to their CTMs and be responsible for administering equitable and objective-constructive feedback for the CTM yearly evaluation. The RN Periop-Procedural Team Coordinator is empowered and expected to address behavioral, attendance, and performance issues via the disciplinary process up to a written reprimand and consulting with the manager. The coordinator works
closely with the Perioperative Leadership to standardize and systemize PeriProcedural operations. The RN Periop-Procedural Team Coordinator collaborates with leaders throughout MUSC Health to establish operating procedures, enhance clinical and non-clinical workflows, increase productivity, and improve overall quality outcomes and operational efficiencies within a
variety of delivery settings.
Minimum Training and Education: Bachelor of Nursing degree from an accredited school of nursing or currently enrolled in a BSN program with completion in four years and three years related Periop-nursing experience required. Extensive knowledge of the unit's patient population, health care trends, community and regional resources and service availability to these populations. CNOR certification required within 12 months of hire. RN-PPTC must complete new leader onboarding in-person classes and Frontline Nurse Leader Development Program [MyQuest 12 modules] within 6-months of hire. An ability to establish working relationships with diverse groups and individual, medical staff and other health care disciplines. Some positions require certification as a generalist in a related specialty area by the American Nurses Association (ANA). Must have OR scrub and circulating experience with GYN, & Urology service groups. Experience with robotic surgery is preferred.
Required Licensure, Certifications, Registrations: RN licensure by South Carolina Board of Nursing or a compact state required. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required, either a certification from an American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for Healthcare Providers (or AHA recognized equivalent) or an American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider.

Additional Job Description

Physical Requirements: Ability to perform job functions while standing. (Continuous) Ability to perform job functions while sitting. (Continuous) Ability to perform job functions while walking. (Continuous) Ability to climb stairs. (Infrequent) Ability to work indoors. (Continuous) Ability to work outside in temperature extremes. (Infrequent) Ability to work from elevated areas. (Frequent) Ability to work in confined/cramped spaces. (Frequent) Ability to perform job functions from kneeling positions. (Infrequent) Ability to bend at the waist. (Continuous) Ability to twist at the waist. (Frequent) Ability to squat and perform job functions. (Frequent) Ability to perform “pinching” operations. (Frequent) Ability to perform gross motor activities with fingers and hands. (Continuous) Ability to perform firm grasping with fingers and hands. (Continuous) Ability to perform fine manipulation with fingers and hands. (Continuous) Ability to reach overhead. (Frequent) Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders. (Continuous) Ability to fully use both legs. (Continuous) Ability to use lower extremities for balance and coordination. (Frequent) Ability to reach in all directions. (Continuous) Ability to lift and carry 50 lbs. unassisted. (Infrequent) Ability to lift/lower objects 50 lbs. from/to floor from/to 36 inches unassisted. (Infrequent) Ability to lift from 36" to overhead 25 lbs. (Infrequent) Ability to exert up to 50 lbs. of force. (Frequent) Examples include: To transfer a 100 lb. patient that can not assist in the transfer requires 50 lbs. of force. For every 100 additional pounds, assistance will be required from another healthcare worker. 20 lbs. of force is needed to push a 400 lb. patient in a wheelchair on carpet. 25 lbs. of force is required to push a stretcher with a patient with one hand. Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes. (Continuous) Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand or at a distance. (Continuous) Ability to match or discriminate between colors. (Continuous) Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception. (Continuous) Good peripheral vision capabilities. (Continuous) Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction. (Continuous) Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements. (Continuous) Ability to deal effectively with stressful situations. (Continuous) Ability to work rotating shifts. (Frequent) Ability to work overtime as required. (Frequent) Ability to work in a latex safe environment. (Continuous) Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions. (Continuous) (Selected Positions) *Ability to maintain good olfactory sensory function. (Continuous) *(Selected Positions) *Ability to be qualified physically for respirator use, initially and as required. (Continuous) (Selected Positions)

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