Perioperative Nursing Program Director

Oversees and facilitates Specialty Nurse Fellowship Program following established standards and expectations. Focus on continuing professional development and education for nurses new to specialty area. Various responsibilities focus on developing educational programs and processes to promote professional development for nurses through the organization.

• Plans, coordinates, and implement the didactic and clinical elements of the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses Perioperative 101 program.
• Provide clinical and staff development expertise as an educator, leader consultant, facilitator, change agent and researcher to support system wide perioperative services in the provision of quality patient care by helping to ensure competence of all students and foster the delivery of evidence-based practice.
• Plans, coordinates, and implements the didactic and clinical elements of the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses perioperative 101 program.
• Will function as the Perioperative 101 program administrator and is responsible for providing a solid foundation for registered nurses new to the OR, other nursing disciplines that carry perioperative practice principles in their respective units and other non-nursing disciplines to enable the provision of safe patient care.
• Work collaboratively with perioperative services educators to continue programmatic orientation and experiential learning throughout the entirety of the program.
• Incorporates perioperative nursing (& non-nursing) research into the health system by acting as co-principal investigator, research advocate and or collaborator with health system nursing research department.
• Encourages growth in perioperative research across the health system and acts as a source of support for that endeavor.
• Functions as liaison to the System Perioperative Practice Council to provide insight and leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation system perioperative policies, procedures, strategies and best practices.
• Prepares, develops and submits programmatic budget to the System VP of Perioperative Nursing Practice for final approval.
• Instrumental in creating a perioperative professional nursing climate within the health system to meet the needs of diverse units.
• Develops, implements, and coordinates continuous quality and performance improvement to enhance educational practice and administrative process.
• Conducts programmatic, systematic and ongoing learning needs assessments of Perioperative 101 cohorts using a variety of techniques and sources.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.