Nurse Practice Specialist / Operating Room

Overview

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Description

This position is full time, 6:45 am

• 3:15pm, Monday

• Friday.

We're seeking a dedicated and experienced Nurse Practice Specialist, Operating Room (including the Winship Center), to join our team at our Midtown campus. This individual will serve as the clinical and education lead for a program or an area of defined nursing practice. The Nurse Practice Specialist will provide leadership to integrate new knowledge and innovation within the specialty area, ensuring that healthcare delivery is safe, timely, effective, evidence-based, equitable, efficient, and patient/family-focused.This individual will:

• Inter professionally collaborate with and provide expert consultation to administrative leaders, educators, nurses, physicians to lead clinical practice to promote and maintain quality improvement to improve patient and population health outcomes on the unit, within the service line, and across the organization.

• Contribute to the advancement of nursing practice at the unit/system, local, state, national, and/or international level and is instrumental in the application and lead of the Professional Practice/Care Transformation Model across the health system.

• Participate in and leads organizational and hospital-based professional activities to maintain and/or contribute knowledge of current trends, practices, and developments.

• Direct and manage process improvement projects and initiatives that are congruent with EHC and nursing's strategic plan for innovation in healthcare, interprets results, disseminates findings, and utilizes technology and clinical and operational data for the improvement and transformation of patient-centered care modeling transformational leadership behaviors.

• Influence and guide direct care for complex patients with multi system issues including the patients/families biophysical, psycho-emotional, and spiritual issues at the individual and community level and evaluates all processes to determine effective implementation and outcomes needed to meet patient goals and attain optimal care delivery outcomes.

• Provide guidance in: Improving the health of individuals, families, and communities by preparing nurses and other healthcare team members to identify social determinants of health, as well as identifying the system facilitators and barriers to the provision of effective, efficient, equitable, and accessible care for all across the care continuum.

• Consider cultural influences and is cognizant of the diverse needs of patients, families, staff, and other professionals. Demonstrates leadership in ethical decision- making and patient advocacy.

• Engage in ongoing self-appraisal, seeking feedback from colleagues, other professionals, patients, and families. Leads implementation in the principles of fair and just culture.

• Utilize coaching to facilitate optimally functioning staff and multidisciplinary teams applying advanced communication skills.

• Mentor and coache professional development; including collaboration with resident nurses on their evidence based projects and staff seeking DNP degrees. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Professional Nursing Certification required (CCRN, CEN, OCN, etc.)

• Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and three years of clinical nursing experience as a Registered Nurse with at least two years of recent experience in the area of concentration. BLS and ACLS certifications required.

• Preferred certifications includes CAPA, NEA-BC, NPD-BC upon hire or must be obtained within 6 months of employment.

JOIN OUR TEAM TODAY! At Emory University Hospital Midtown, some of the world's top specialist are advancing medicine every day. We have more than 1,200 Emory Clinic and 440 private-practice physician spanning 28 specialities. Our physicians work collaboratively to provide comprehensive care and quality outcome for our patients and their families.

Our Perioperative Surgical Department consist of 28 OR suites, 3 to 4 designated for cardiovascular cases. Our service lines include General, GYN, Urology, Bariatrics, Robotics, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Podiatry, ENT, Skull Base, OMFS, Plastics, and CVOR. We are staffed twenty four seven, 365 day a year. We have some late/call/holiday requirements as well as a rotation to cover overnight shifts and weekend shifts for those dedicated teams. The orientation period would be 8-12 weeks based on experience.