Manager of Nursing - Operating Room - Labor & Delivery at Texas Childrens Hospital

We're looking for a Manager of Nursing for Obstetrical Perioperative Services, 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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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 of nursing experience required.
• Operating Room experience strongly preferred. 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.

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.

ABOUT US

Texas Children's Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including an array of fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children's Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing physicians, staff and patient families with rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. Three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center and The Women's Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry are all housed here. Additionally, we also recently opened a community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

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.