Clinical Director

RN Clinical Director – Full Time

St Joseph's Outpatient Surgery Center is hiring a RN Clinical Director Full Time. St Joseph's Outpatient Surgery Center is a multispecialty center doing pain, ortho, neuro spine and total joint procedures. Our mission is to care for every patient and their family as if they were our own. Each patient, each family, each and every time.

• Directs nursing operations in the surgery center.

• Evaluates nursing activities to ensure patient care, staff relations, and efficiency of service.
• Coordinates patient care with business office, pre‑op, and PACU.
• Supervises activities to ensure appropriate patient care and monitors efficiency of service in the operating room.
• Observes nursing care and visits patients to ensure nursing care is carried out as directed and treatments are administered in accordance with physicians’ instructions.
• Coordinates with physicians, medical staff, and administrator to ensure effective communication is maintained.
• Coordinates with Materials Manager for equipment, special equipment, and supplies for upcoming surgical cases, and resolves any problems.
• Coordinates orientation of new employees.
• Investigates and resolves complaints; refers unusual problems to the Administrator.
• Interacts appropriately and effectively with all patients/others regardless of age or ethnic background.
• Follows equipment safety guidelines.
• Assists with environmental hazard and infection control surveillance and participates in emergency preparedness drills.
• Ensures that Standard Universal Precautions, the National Patient Safety Goals, and principles of aseptic and sterile technique are used appropriately.
• Implements safe practices and provides knowledgeable guidance and evaluation of the environment of care management, including life safety (fire prevention), security, hazardous materials and waste management, emergency preparedness, infection control, the safe use of medical equipment, and utilities.
• Ensures meaningful differences are implemented as outlined in the EDGE (Every Day Giving Excellence) Program.
• Participates in review and revision of policies and procedures at the Surgery Center.
• Directs the hiring, selection, performance reviews, and training of medical personnel.
• Calls on physicians to solicit their participation in the surgery center.
• Orders or directs ordering of supplies including drugs, solutions, and equipment, and maintains records on narcotics.

Shall be physically able to stand, walk, and maintain varied body motions and positions for long periods. Demonstrates manual dexterity. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. The employee shall be able to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects or tools. The employee is required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Shall be able to hear and speak. Shall be able to move up to 100 pounds.

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Paid time off (vacation & sick leave)
• Paid holidays
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance Program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long‑term care, elder & childcare, AD&D, auto & home insurance

USPI creates relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and health care systems to provide first‑class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.

USPI is committed to, and proud of, our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing
• Currently licensed in the state
• CPR required; advanced life support certification required
• One year of experience in an intra‑operative setting
• Demonstrates clinical competency, leadership, and teaching capabilities
• Physically and emotionally capable of performing responsibilities of position
• Ability to apply common sense to carry out detailed written or oral instructions
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardised situations
• General familiarity with medical terminology as it pertains to anatomy and surgical procedures for an operating room

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