Clinical Shift Coordinator RN-Operating Room Full Time Days

1 day ago


McHenry Illinois, United States Northwestern Memorial Healthcare Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Clinical Shift Coordinator RN to join our team at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare. As a Clinical Shift Coordinator RN, you will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth operation of our operating room, providing exceptional patient care, and leading a team of healthcare professionals.

Key Responsibilities
  • Presents a professional demeanor and appearance, providing accurate information and timely updates to patients and customers.
  • Provides effective service recovery skills to solve problems or service breakdowns when they occur.
  • Demonstrates teamwork by helping co-workers within and across departments, communicating effectively with others, and respecting diverse opinions and styles.
  • Manages work schedule efficiently, completing tasks and assignments on time, and contributes to opportunities and processes for continuous improvement.
  • Participates in efforts to reduce costs, streamline work processes, improve and grow services we provide.
  • Demonstrates proficiency as a staff nurse and serves as a role model and resource to staff, maintaining awareness of unstable, complex, or high-risk patient conditions throughout the shift.
  • Ensures appropriate assignment of care based on staff competency and patient acuity, coordinates and monitors patient care to ensure patient safety, and collects, analyzes, and organizes patient care data for the unit.
  • Oversees that staff are in compliance with regulatory standards, ensures adaptation of services as needed to reflect age, culture, gender, race, nationality, religion, etc., and oversees documentation of key critical elements for patient care and national patient safety goals.
  • Ensures initial admit orders are received by end of shift, demonstrates knowledge of staffing requirements for unit, and ensures compliance with staffing matrix each shift.
  • Contributes to cost reduction and supports interventions that promote unit cost effectiveness, oversees accurate completion of daily charges to ensure unit receives all appropriate revenue, and documents appropriate staffing information and justifications in Optilink each shift.
  • Checks staff timekeeping on shifts worked and oversees compliance with time and attendance policies, oversees documentation of occurrences on shift, and reports to Nursing leadership and risk management as appropriate.
  • Ensures compliance with patient life safety standards, including fire safety, handwashing, crash cart checks, etc., and oversees accurate accounting of unit equipment.
  • Demonstrates effective oral, written, and listening skills with staff, physicians, patients, and families, keeps all appropriate parties informed in a timely manner, and understands 'chain of command' accountability.
  • Completes leader rounding on assigned staff routinely and consistently, provides input to and may assist with organization of staff meetings, conducts staff huddles on shift, and collaborates with educator and manager to ensure appropriate and complete orientation of new staff.
  • Participates in unit and PCS-based teams, work groups, and/or committees or shared governance councils, demonstrates willingness to give 100%, and voluntarily assists others.
  • Keeps staff on shift informed of unit initiatives and incorporates outcomes of the team/committees' work into practice, ensures all RN's, PC's perform as a team in order to complete work on time and take uninterrupted meal breaks, and coordinates patient placement with Clinical Placement Nurse in a timely manner and with a positive and flexible attitude.
  • Displays and is responsible for 'welcoming spirit' for unit by integrating students and resource team, promotes an atmosphere of collective accountability for the Unit/Department, and performs weekend leadership rounding on all patients and assists Clinical Manager during week as needed.
  • Contributes to annual employee performance evaluation and is present when evaluation is given, conducts formal staff rounding with assigned group of staff on a consistent basis at frequency identified by Manager, and follows up with all new employees on shift as identified by Manager.
  • Contributes to completion of minor disciplinary action, may cover this independently with staff member under the approval of Clinical Manager, provides feedback to Manager for development plans that are needed for staff they lead, and demonstrates ability to coach staff effectively using leadership skills.
  • Participates in interview process for candidates seeking position on his/her shift, uses retention strategies to recognize and reward staff on shift, serves as Qualified Observer to ensure completion of annual competencies of staff on his/her shift, and participates in quality improvement initiatives for unit and as appropriate for PCS.
  • Displays knowledge of PI process, supports staff to incorporate EBP/research findings into practice at the bedside, oversees environment of care and regulatory readiness with all regulatory bodies, and is a shift leader and is accountable for hardwiring evidence-based and unit-specific tactics for patient satisfaction.
  • Monitors for improvement of chart audit findings at employee level and provides follow-up, and performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.


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