Ambulatory Surgical Center Director

e CancerCare Ambulatory Surgical Center Director - Fairbanks, Alaska

Job Purpose: The Director of Nursing/DON is a Registered Nurse who has clinical and administrative responsibility for the management of the Ambulatory Surgery Center in which nursing care is directly and/or indirectly provided. He/she shall be responsible for the direction, provision, and quality of nursing services provided to the patient assigned to the center.

Essential Functions:

1. Responsible for the review of privileges for all staff members every year.
2. Review at least every three months clinical and scientific work, medical services, and maintenance of accurate medical records.
3. Maintain the established guidelines for pathologist referrals.
4. Oversee the established procedures for supervising clinical support staff to ensure that patient admission, assessment, and discharge requirements meet federal requirements.
5. Develops and maintains written objectives, policies, a procedure manual, an organizational plan, and a quality assurance program for the nursing service.
6. Establishes, implements, and monitors standards of patient care within the framework of the standards of the center.
7. Supervises and directs nursing staff towards safe and competent patient care.
8. Coordinates and integrates the nursing service with other patient care services to provide a continuum of care for the patient.
9. Applies sound management principles to organize, plan, coordinate, and control the flow of activities, personnel, and utilization of resources.
10. Sets realistic unit objectives and demonstrates effectiveness in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and activities to meet these objectives.
11. Guides and directs the Nurses in the conversion of goals and objectives to concrete nursing and administrative activities.
12. Demonstrates analytical abilities necessary to identify a problem and develop a sound plan of action for resolution.
13. Works flexible hours in assuming responsibility and accountability for providing patient care.
14. Relieves other Nurses within the center, as necessary.
15. Participates in maintaining a safe environment for staff and patients.
16. Manages clinical and nursing staffing patterns and evaluates the need for overtime or per diem nurses to meet patient care requirements.
17. Reviews and/or revises established goals and objectives to participate in the planning and evaluating of new programs, special projects, and priorities.
18. Establishes, interprets, and implements standards of asepsis and infection control.
19. Conducts regularly scheduled unit-based staff meetings and maintains open channels of communication with staff.
20. Attends and participates in meetings with other members of the patient care team for problem-solving, planning programs, and establishing standards of patient care.
21. Interviews, evaluates, and selects candidates for employment.
22. Assures that all assigned nursing staff has annual and terminal performance evaluations, utilizing information from appropriate sources.
23. Facilitates the implementation of orientation programs for all levels of staff.
24. Maintains confidentiality of patients, significant others, and fellow employees.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

1. Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
2. Perioperative and post-anesthesia nursing experience required.
3. Licensed in the state of Alaska.
4. Current BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications.

Preferred Skills:

1. Demonstrated supervisory administrative experience required.
2. Ambulatory Surgery experience preferred.
3. Current IV certification from an approved facility preferred.
4. Evidence of continuing education.
5. AORN and other nursing organization participation encouraged.

Required Competencies:

1. Excellent judgment, dependability, conscientious performance.
2. Detail-oriented.
3. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
4. Caring and empathic.
5. High ethical standards.
6. Mechanical ability and manual dexterity for operating complicated equipment.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.