Senior Nurse Manager- PreOp/PACU

We are recruiting for a motivated Senior Nurse Manager- PreOp/PACU to join our team!

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Department

2B Main PACU

Pre-Operative/Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) houses 20 pre-operative (pre-op) bays and 17 PACU bays on Denver Health’s main campus, as well as 14 pre-op and 14 PACU bays in our Outpatient Surgery Center. This is a fast-paced department, and we pride ourselves on excellent nursing care during the pre- and post-operative period in the perioperative process. Our nurses care for a wide variety of patients from pediatric to geriatric, and same day surgery to surgical intensive care. In addition to our 16 operating rooms, our team also prepares and recovers patients from our gastrointestinal, Cardiac Catherization Lab, interventional radiology, bronchoscopy, and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) procedural areas as well as being a back-up for labor and delivery C-sections. Pre-op nurse-to-patient ratio is 1:3 and PACU nurse-to patient ratio is 1:2.

Job Summary

Under minimal supervision, the Senior Nurse Manager performs managerial and leadership functions over professional nursing and support care team in various healthcare consumer care settings. Applies critical thinking, evidence-based policies, procedures, guidelines and competence to collaborate with the health care team to promote excellence in healthcare consumer safety and quality outcomes and independently works with the ACNO or Director to maintain departmental budget.

Adheres to the American Nurses Association (ANA) standards of professional nursing practice / process and performance, and the ANA Code of Ethics (2015)* to provide care to all healthcare consumers. Applies critical thinking, evidence-based practices and competence to collaborate with the health care team to promote excellence in healthcare consumer safety and quality outcomes. Utilizes the Theory of Human Caring and Caritas in daily practice. "Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, Founder / Director, Watson Caring Science Institute.


Essential Functions:

• Staff Management (10%)
• Scheduling (10%)
• Mentoring and recruitment (10%)
• Departmental budget and operations (10%)
• Records management (10%)
• Case management and discharge planning (10%)
• Patient safety and quality care (10%)
• Policy development and revisions (5%)
• Support and implementation of organizational initiatives and strategic planning (5%)
• Promote positive patient experience (5%)
• Promote employee engagement (5%)
• Able to perform essential duties of direct reporting positions (5%)
• Other duties as assigned per unit addendum (5%)

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree Required

Work Experience:

• 4-6 years of nursing experience; including two years nursing leadership experience preferred
• 2 years PreOp/PACU experience required

Licenses:

• BLS-Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) - AHA - American Heart Association Required and
• RN-Registered Nurse - DORA - Department of Regulatory Agencies Required
• ACLS-Advanced Cardiac Life Support - AHA - American Heart Association
• PALS- Pediatric Advanced Life Support – AHA – American Heart Association
• TNCC, TCAR, ASPAN, (CPAN or CAPA) Preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Adherence to Standards of Professional Nursing Practice/ Process / Performance [ANA Standards addendum- signed] and accrediting body standards.
• Strong understanding and display of the principals of customer service as it applies to patients, staff and the community
• Ability to assist in identifying ways to promote quality patient-centric care and maintain Denver Health’s high level of patient satisfaction. [Nursing Vision Statement]
• Ability to work effectively in a team matrix environment. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively at all levels and in a cross functional environment.
• Ability to work closely with multidisciplinary staff, charge nurses, clinical nurse educator(s), and Nursing Managers, providers,, executive leadership to provide care to patients with respect to their uniqueness using informed judgment, competence, individual qualifications, and collaboration with the health care team.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of assessment findings as they relate to the disease process and continuum of care.
• Supports compliance with national patient safety goals, accre