RN Clinical Specialty Lead

Overview

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values—integrity, patient‑centered, respect, accountability, and compassion—must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

Under the direction of the Patient Service Manager, the RN Clinical Periop Lead (CPL) organizes patient care activities and serves as the primary clinical resource to the perioperative team in the designated specialty(s) to provide quality nursing care. The CPL supports the overall coordination of the perioperative specialty and actively collaborates with physicians and staff to facilitate the complex, dynamic environment of perioperative services.

EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran

• Patient and Family
  
  Experience:
  
  1.1 Role model YNHH service excellence pledge standards, 1.2 Demonstrate value, diversity, and respect for all people in the work environment, 1.3 Ensure the successful execution of service excellence standards for all customers, 1.4 Lead and inspire a team of positive, competent, and dynamic individuals, 1.5 Ensure confidentiality of patient, staff, and appropriate management data is maintained, 1.6 Identify and analyze trends in patient satisfaction scores specific to each specialty area, and 1.1 Demonstrate clinical competence in perioperative services associated with designated surgical specialty(s).
• Staff Engagement: 2.1 Encourage and mentor to ensure staff competencies, 2.2 Collaboratively engage staff engagement with perioperative specialty, 2.3 Lead staff involvement with physicians associated with designated specialty, 2.4 Prioritize staffing needs to facilitate complex environment of perioperative services, 2.5 Collaboratively work with specialty physicians to promote optimal patient care safety and efficiencies, 2.6 Provide leadership oversight into staffing assignments and staffing competency assessment.
• Quality and Safety:
  Accountability/Expectation: 3.1 Demonstrate knowledge and implement patient safety and quality improvements for the perioperative specialty, 3.2 Exhibit ethical and professional responsibility to contribute to patient care, YNHH, and the patients in perioperative services, 3.3 Foster collaborative practice to promote safety and quality, 3.4 Ensure staff are well prepared to optimally perform clinical accountabilities, 3.5 Maintain an environment to assure specialty readiness for all accreditation and regulatory surveys, 3.6 Exhibit an open mind to listen, challenge, and influence patient safety and clinical outcomes.
• Clinical Care: 4.1 Serve as the primary physician interface for the designated specialty(s), 4.2 Plan staff and physician education for new equipment and supplies, 4.3 Actively solicit physician and staff input for service line enhancement, 4.4 Provide direct care 70% of the time – or as needed to support staffing, 4.5 Participate in collaboration with management to support the coordination of the overall planning, organization, direction and evaluation of designated perioperative specialty(s), 4.6 Demonstrate the ability to respond to multiple demands at once, prioritize and delegate appropriate tasks to all perioperative team members to facilitate the efficient and safe transition for all patients, 4.7 Provide leadership to direct staffing needs on a daily basis, 4.8 Collaboratively work with Materials Management and Central Sterile to ensure accuracy of procedural needs.
• Financial Management: 5.1 Oversight of the perioperative throughput including first case start time and turn‑around time, 5.2 Manage staffing assignments and competency assessment for designated specialty(s), 5.3 Lead specialty services coordination of equipment and…