Ambulatory Surgery Center Nurse Manager

Role Summary

The ASC Nurse Manager provides clinical, operational, and people leadership across ambulatory surgical services and patient navigation functions within fertility and specialty care programs.

This role is accountable for:

• Safe, compliant ASC nursing and medical assistant operations (pre-procedure, perioperative support, PACU, discharge)

• Staff leadership, mentorship, training, quality assurance, regulatory readiness, and KPI performance across multiple sites.

The ASC Nurse Manager ensures seamless coordination between clinical nursing teams, ASC nursing teams, clinical and ASC medical assistants, patient navigators, providers, labs, and administrative partners to deliver high quality, timely, patient centered fertility care.

Essential Functions

Clinical & Operational Oversight

• Oversee day to day ASC nursing and medical assistant operations within fertility ASCs, including pre-procedure preparation, procedure support, recovery, discharge, and post-procedure follow-up. 

• Ensure consistent execution of nursing and medical assistant protocols for IVF cycles, egg retrievals, egg freezing, and related procedures.

• Identify operational bottlenecks across clinical and navigation workflows and implement process improvements to reduce delays in care.

• Maximize collaboration and interface between ASC nursing and medical assistant staffs and clinical nursing staffs.

People Leadership & Workforce Management

• Directly manage nursing and medical assistant staffs across assigned sites.

• Lead recruiting, onboarding, training, competency validation, and ongoing education for ASC nurses and medical assistants.

• Define and refine KPIs for all positions

• Conduct regular performance evaluations, coaching, and corrective action plans aligned to defined KPIs.

• Partner with site leadership to develop and manage staffing models, schedules, PTO, and cross coverage plans aligned with surgical volumes.

• Manage define staffing schedules and meet staff turnover goals

Quality Assurance, Safety & Regulatory Compliance

• Maintain continuous regulatory and accreditation readiness for fertility ASCs, including chart audits, log audits, and environment of care reviews. 

• Expert level understanding and ensure compliance with: 

• State nursing and ASC regulations

• QUAD-A regulations and compliance

• HIPAA and privacy standards

• ASRM and fertility specific clinical guidelines

• Lead preparation for regulatory inspections and internal quality reviews.

• Develop and oversee a Quality Assurance (QA) program covering both nursing and patient navigation services include ability to define, generate, and refine current and new SOPs

• Investigate patient complaints, incidents, and quality variances; implement corrective and preventive action plans (CAPAs). Expert level in root cause analyses for clinical incidents and implement quality assurance programs.

Performance Management & KPIs

• Establish, monitor, and report on KPIs across clinical and navigation functions, including: 

• Time to patient contact

• Time to treatment initiation

• Surgical throughput and PACU length of stay

• Discharge delay rates

• Documentation completeness and audit pass rates

• Patient satisfaction and experience scores

• Analyze trends and present actionable insights to leadership. 

• Meet define staffing schedules for operation

• Meet staffing ratio and defined turnover rate

Cross Functional & Provider Collaboration

• Partner closely with medical directors, anesthesia providers, lab/embryology teams, patient financial services, compliance, and payer partners.

• Serve as an escalation point for complex clinical, operational, or patient experience issues.

• Support program expansion, new service rollouts, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Inventory, Systems & Environment of Care

• Oversee medication and supply management, inventory audits, and equipment readiness across sites including but not limited to linens, biohazard and medication waste management.

• Oversee the function and quality of equipment processing, maintenance, and quality compliance.

• Ensure accurate, timely documentation within EMR and scheduling systems.

• Maintain organized, safe, and compliant clinical environments.

Education, Licenses, Certifications and Other Requirements 

• Bachelor's Degree 
• Licensed Registered Nurse in CA (RN)/(BSN)
• Current ACLS certification
• 3–5+ years of experience in fertility, reproductive medicine, ASC, OR, or specialty care settings.
• 2 years of leadership/management experience

Employment Type

This is a full-time (40 hours a week/8 hours per day) exempt onsite position that requires early hours, rotational weekends and holidays. 

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $135,000-165,000 annually. Salary is based on several factors including job related knowledge and skill set, depth of experience, certifications and/or degrees.