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Full-Time
Charge Nurse Operating Room
Ksp Asc
Posted on 9/15/2025
UTHealth Houston
No salary listed
San Antonio, TX, USA
In Person
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Required Skills
Customer Service
Requirements
- Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations.
- Proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language is necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially concerning activities impacting patient or employee safety or security.
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members, and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles.
- Strong assessment, organizational, and problem-solving skills, as evidenced by the capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components.
- Ability to function independently and exercise judgment in interactions with physicians, interprofessional healthcare teams, and patients and their families.
- Uses critical thinking skills and clinical judgment to work autonomously as defined by the Nurse Practice Act.
- Demonstrates proficient time management skills.
- Demonstrates highly developed assessment skills; contributes to policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Basic computer knowledge
- Experience utilizing EMR
- Minimum of Five (5) years recent experience in operating room setting
- Minimum of Two (2) years experience in Lead or Charge Nurse Role
- Bachelors Degree in Nursing Required
- RN Registered Nurse State Licensure Upon Hire **Req**
- BLS Basic Life Support Upon Hire **Req**
- ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support Upon Hire **Req**
- PALS Certified Pediatric Advanced Life Support 30 Days **Req**
Responsibilities
- Assumes leadership responsibilities with high-level contributions and may be a backup to OR management as needed.
- Maintains ongoing communication and interactions with intraoperative team. Serve as a clinical resource to team members and capable of functioning as a primary nurse in operating room setting.
- Must communicate clearly and concisely with interprofessional health care team, anesthesia providers/board runner and physicians.
- Review surgery schedule and staff assignments.
- Functions as a mentor and resource to unit staff and provides oversight for students/new employees/preceptorships.
- Identifies levels of organizational conflict and applies tools to effectively resolve concerns, complaints, or disputes with patients, families, physicians, and other interprofessional healthcare team members.
- Leads patient and family-centered care standards. Mentor others regarding specialty populations; audit plan of care.
- Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
- Maintains ongoing interactions with patients, families, and staff on improving patient care through leader rounding.
- Ensures effective collaboration with other departments regarding patient process issues.
- Drives department service standards and activities to improve department scores for patient satisfaction on unit-based scorecards.
- Models the standards of care related to the nursing process by actively participating in meeting and improving nurse-sensitive quality indicators and patient safety goals.
- Participates in creating a continuous improvement environment.
- Participates in initiatives to improve quality and safety scores on the unit and hospital scorecards through peer-to-peer accountability, reporting near misses, and identifying solutions by collaborating with the interprofessional team.
- Role models situational awareness, using teachable moments to improve safety.
- Assists with audits.
Desired Qualifications
- CNOR Certified Operating Room Nurse Upon Hire Pref
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