Manager Nursing Perioperative Services - PACU

We're looking for a Manager of Nursing Perioperative Services - PACU, someone who's ready to grow with our company. In this position, you will manage daily clinical and personnel activities and provide administrative support to the Assistant Director. The Nurse Manager participates and coordinates the delivery of high quality, family centered, and developmentally appropriate patient care at the unit level.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains clinical competency by ensuring that the physiologic, psychosocial, and developmental needs of the patient are met within a family-centered care environment.
• Ensures the staffing needs of the department are adequately met. Creates and monitors staff schedules. Participates in the decision-making processes for hiring new employees.
• Utilizing an inter-disciplinary approach, coaches and develops unit-based staff to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care. Assists in developing clinical nurses along the novice to expert continuum.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills with the health care team and works to eliminate communication barriers. Serves as a liaison between physicians, families, nursing staff and ancillary departments.
• Demonstrates accountability for cost effective management of equipment and supplies while ensuring the department achieves patient care goals.
• Supports the implementation of unit goals and communication of the IDS strategic plan to staff.
• Ensures that JC requirements specific to your department are fulfilled but also understands the linkage between your department requirements and those of the integrated delivery system.

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing required
• RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact required
• BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support BLS – Cert-Basic Life Support issued by the American Heart Association required
• 2 years Nursing experience required (PACU)
• Management or other formal leadership experience preferred

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

ABOUT US

Since 1954, Texas Children's has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city's Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children's comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children's care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children's Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children's Health Plan, the nation's first HMO focused on children; Texas Children's Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children's Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children's Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

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Texas Children's is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.