Ortho Service Leader, RN

3 weeks ago


Boston, Massachusetts, United States Tufts Medical Center Full time
Job Profile Summary

Tufts Medical Center is recognized by the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program for excellence in nursing. Magnet recognition is the highest and most prestigious credential a health care organization can achieve for nursing excellence and quality patient care. Magnet recognition signals to nurses that the organization is committed to nursing.

The nurses at Tufts Medical Center are integral to everything we do. They are often the ones patients interact with first, and sometimes the ones they interact with the most. It's a critically important role, so our nurses are well-supported, well-respected, and very well-appreciated

Job Overview

This position is responsible for the development of nursing staff within a specified area of practice and for impacting patient outcomes through consultation on patient care issues in addition to perioperative registered nursing (RN) duties. This role encompasses the following areas: clinical practice, professional development, collaboration/consultation, staff development, leadership and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities
  1. Interprets, supports, and practices the mission and philosophy of the hospital and the Operating Room.
  2. Serves as a clinical resource, consultant, and role model for nursing staff providing support in the practice of perioperative nursing.
  3. Provides support and expertise to the Department of Surgery in the care and education of staff, physicians, and patients within the area of specialty.
  4. Integrates knowledge, research findings, and experience to enhance nursing practice and to promote excellence in patient care.
  5. Maintains flexibility and adapts to a variety of workload assignments.
  6. Uses expert clinical skills to provide ongoing assessment and evaluation of nursing care.
  7. Develops, monitors, and evaluates QI projects on a unit and hospital level using quality outcome indicators.
  8. Serves on a committee at the unit, surgical services, or hospital level.
  9. Validates and benchmarks nursing practice within the specialty area.
  10. Responds to service-related needs for new products and equipment, and follows established processes for acquisition of these.
  11. Responsible for service-related resource materials, including preference cards and nursing help manuals.
  12. Maintains competency in organizational, departmental, and outside agency safety standards relative to job requirements.
  13. Promotes clinical expertise using various methods such as networking, professional development, and literature review.
  14. Networks with management, other hospitals, physicians, peers, and Manager of Quality Outcomes for role development.
  15. Serves as a clinical role model.
  16. Collaborates and coordinates resources to facilitate patients' plan of care; provides direct and/or indirect care to patients including scrubbing and circulating.
  17. Collaborates/consults with other affiliates in the value analysis of supplies and equipment and evaluates the impact of supply and equipment changes on the environment of care.
  18. Consults with other members of the unit-based management team on patient care, staff development, and practice issues.
  19. Collaborates on an interdisciplinary basis to develop protocols, policies, and procedures and practice guidelines.
  20. Collaborates with nurses and other members of the healthcare team related to the patient plan of care.
  21. Collaborates with the management team and staff in the development, facilitation, and evaluation of orientation framework for the specialty area.
  22. Helps develop, implement, and evaluate unit-based/specialty-based competencies in partnership with the quality outcomes staff.
  23. Assesses learning needs of staff and provides formal and informal educational opportunities to increase knowledge and improve clinical care.
  24. Trains staff or arranges education on new products and/or service-related equipment and monitors compliance and ongoing competency.
  25. Assists in mandatory education activities. Gives at least one service-related educational presentation per year.
  26. Evaluates current practice in the service area using national benchmarking.
  27. Facilitates an empowered environment that recognizes and responds to psychosocial, developmental, and professional practice issues through mentoring, group support, personal consultation, resource identification, and team building.
  28. Demonstrates a commitment to addressing ongoing cost-effectiveness of patient care delivery, a skill set in financial management, to include cost management for the service area.
  29. Accountable for providing clinically sound and evidence-based information. Helps write policies based on AORN standards and other outside agency requirements, such as the Joint Commission and FDA.
  30. Participates in research activities.
  31. Incorporates cultural and age-appropriate care in all aspects of patient care and interactions with physicians, management, peers, and visitors in the OR, and anyone who will be greeted as a customer of the hospital.
Physical Requirements
  1. Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking.
  2. Lifts, positions, pushes, and/or transfers patients and equipment.
  3. Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching.
  4. Frequent exposure to hazardous chemicals, sick patients, bodily substances, noise, and possible exposure to radiation, lasers, electric shock, etc.
  5. Regularly exposed to the risk of bloodborne diseases and other transmissible infections.
  6. Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances.
  7. Subject to varying and unpredictable situations.
  8. Handle emergency and crisis situations.
  9. Subjected to irregular hours.
  10. May have contact with hazardous materials.
Skills & Abilities
  1. Effective written and verbal communication skills. Can communicate with a wide variety of audiences.
  2. Able to work independently and utilize time management concepts to maximize time efficiency.


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