Description
**Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:** Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
**Organization:**
Main OR - PACU
**Job Summary:**
Vanderbilt is expanding! As a result, we are hiring a Clinical Staff Leader RN for the Holding Room/PACU.
JOB SUMMARY
The Clinical Staff Leader is a direct supervisory leadership role and a key member of the Nursing leadership team. The CSL leads a cohort of staff members and actively participates in overall management of the unit, development of clinical practice, and provision of patient care with accountabilities for implementation and outcomes for people leadership, quality, service, compliance, finance, throughput and scheduling. The primary focus of the Clinical Staff Leader is to ensure the unit's optimal performance by engaging in effective problem solving for staff, patients and families and to develop/lead the assigned cohort. The Clinical Staff Leader provides feedback and coaching to staff members, recognizing them for their contributions while fostering a high performance culture. The CSL works under the guidance and direction of the manager to develop.
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**SHIFT**
Four 10-hour shifts in the Mon-Fri window.
**Qualifications**
-Bachelor's of Nursing Degree
-Valid Nursing License
-at least 1 yr of relevant experience
-Critical Care nursing experience highly preferred
-at least 1 yr of PACU or perianesthesia experience highly preferred
-CAPA or CPAN certification highly preferred
**DEPARTMENT SUMMARY**
The environment in the Holding Room/PACU is friendly and family oriented. Leadership is supportive of personal and professional staff growth. We have many experienced nurses with ICU backgrounds. Staff is supportive of each other. They readily welcome and share their knowledge with all new nurses. They are eager to help when needed.
We care for adult patients who electively or emergently are having surgery. Our patients may be having simple procedures that allow them to go home the same day or may be undergoing complex surgeries that will require them to be cared for in an intensive care setting. Surgery is a unique place in healthcare. After surgery, patients' lives are changed.
There are many advantages to working in VOR Holding/PACU. New Graduate Nurses receive support from experienced clinical staff leaders and from staff. We have a flexible scheduling system with a variety of 9-, 10-, and 12-hour shifts. Staff can have the opportunity to connect with multiple patients and families every day and at the most vulnerable and critical time in their lives.
Our nurses are successful because we maintain a strong Shared Governance structure. Our Unit Board meets every month. Staff work with leadership addressing all aspects of their practice to improve the care of patients, of families, and to increase satisfaction in their work environment.
Our approach to the orientation of new nurses to the VOR Holding Room/PACU is competency-based. New nurses are provided with a 12-week orientation with a dedicated preceptor.
**WE ENCOURAGE PROFESSIONAL GROWTH.**
Professional development, opportunities, and interests are discussed during orientation and throughout the year during performance conversations.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN is nationally ranked in 7 adult specialties and rated high performing in 3 adult specialties and 19 procedures and conditions. It is a general medical and surgical facility. It is a teaching hospital.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of their cohort and other staff as needed.
- Defines standards for quality patient care.
- Develops, manages and evaluates area based on work team performance.
- Manages multiple projects/on-going work activities (timelines, work plans, deliverables) and maintains alignment with strategic plan and vision.
- Acts as clinical leader and facilitates education for staff on clinical standards; routinely provides guidance/coaching to subordinates/peers within clinical specialty(ies).
- Ensures that clinical assignments are based on patient care needs and demonstrated staff competencies.
- The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
- Clinical Expertise (Intermediate): Demonstrates the mastery of patient care including patient assessment and treatment, care planning, patient education and evidence based practice. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training and expertise to role model and coach less experienced staff.
- Quality Management (Novice): Has provided continuous analysis and evaluation of assignment work processes, constantly striving for improvement in the way tasks and activities are accomplished by questioning their value to the process and contributing creative solutions. Has participated in the process of establishing, communicating and monitoring standards for quality and excellence. Demonstrates the ability to actually work on and improve a current business process, product or service.
- Business Results (Fundamental Awareness): Implements appropriate measures for attaining business results and tracks progress in meeting goals and objectives. Demonstrates the ability to deliver products and services on time, within budget, and in accordance with organizational standards and goals. Continuously demonstrates a strong focus on quality. Responds effectively to customer or client needs. Recognizes incipient problems and communicates them to management.
- Operations Planning (Novice): Demonstrates ability to realistically anticipate resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work within areas of direct responsibility. Appropriately matches equipment and capital resources to task demands. Achieves results within budget. Comp
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