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Time Type:
Full time
Department:
CC013200 Cardiovascular Surgery
The Director of Perioperative Services works in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams to implement, evaluate, and enhance patient care service delivery within the assigned department. The Director has 24 hour accountability for the assigned departments (Ambulatory Surgery, Operating Room, PACU, GI Lab, and Sterile Processing) to deliver family centered care, demonstrate evidence-based professional practice, and achieve excellence in care.
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree Nursing, Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent or Nursing Diploma
Master's Degree, Master's Degree Nursing
Nursing - 7 years with 5 years of leadership experience
Registered Nurse (RN) license - Arkansas or Compact State
Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR) - Competency & Credentialing Institute
1. Plans, develops, and fosters a culture or care delivery characterized by a strong shared vision and expectations for excellence in patient and family centered care, patient safety and quality, evidence based professional practice.
2. Plans and implements care delivery models and strategies to achieve excellence in care for assigned population in assigned departments.
3. Identifies, plans, and utilizes key indicators and measures of quality, safety and customer satisfaction for assigned patient populations and services.
4. Establishes clear departmental goals for ongoing clinical care delivery related to evidence based monitoring, evaluation, and improvements in quality and safety.
5. Develops, implements, reviews and revises policies, procedures, and practices which are consistent with AC and regulatory requirements.
6. Hires, terminates, evaluates, develops, counsels and trains staff.
7. Assures accessibility of essential materials, equipment and supplies necessary for patient care. Determines best use of resources.
8. Participates in short and long-term planning, budget development, capital needs identification, information systems planning, and identification and management of equipment and other resources.
9. Advances professionalism, citizenship and effective community partnerships of staff members.
10. Develops quality improvement processes that include goals and performance targets.
11. Prepares, justifies and administers departmental and program budgets.
12. Performs other duties as assigned.
Arkansas Children's is the only healthcare system in the state solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas' more than 700,000 children. The private, non-profit organization includes two pediatric hospitals, a pediatric research institute and USDA nutrition center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and many education and outreach programs — all focused on fulfilling a promise to define and deliver unprecedented child health. Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is a 336-bed, Magnet-recognized facility in Little Rock operating the state’s only Level I pediatric trauma center; the state's only burn center; the state's only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric intensive care unit; the state’s only pediatric surgery program with Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the state’s only magnetoencephalography (MEG) system for neurosurgical planning and cutting-edge research; and the state's only nationally recognized pediatric transport program. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in seven pediatric specialties (2022—2023): Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology and Urology. Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW), the first and only pediatric hospital in the Northwest Arkansas region, is a level IV pediatric trauma center. ACNW operates a 24-bed inpatient unit; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and Northwest Arkansas' only pediatric emergency department, equipped with 30 exam rooms. Generous philanthropic and volunteer engagement has sustained Arkansas Children's since it began as an orphanage in 1912, and today ensures the system can deliver on its promise of unprecedented child health. To learn more, visit archildrens.org.
