Supervisory Nurse (Perioperative)

Overview: Supervisory Nurse (Perioperative) - GS-0610-12 - Naval Medical Center San Diego, CA Downtown San Diego is located on San Diego Bay.
Balboa Park encompasses several mesas and canyons to the northeast, surrounded by older, dense urban communities including Hillcrest and North Park.
To the east and southeast lie City Heights, the College Area, and Southeast San Diego.
To the north lies Mission Valley and Interstate 8.
The communities north of the valley and freeway, and south of Marine Corps Air Station Mirmar, include Clairemont, Kearny Mesa, Tierrasanta, and Navajo.
Stretching north from Miramar are the northern suburbs of Mira Mesa, Scripps Ranch, Rancho Penasquitos, and Ranch Bernado.
The far northeast portion of the city encompasses Lake Hodges and the San Pasqual Valley, which holds an agricultural preserve.
Carmel Valley and Del Mar Heights occupy the northwest corner of the city.
To their south are Torrey Pines State Reserve and the business center of the Golden Triangle.
Further south are the beach and coastal communities of La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, and Ocean Beach.
Pont Loma occupies the peninsula across San Diego Bay from downtown.
The communities of South San Diego (an Enclave), such as San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, are located next to the Mexico-United States border and are physically separated from the rest of the city by the cities of National City and Chula Vista.
A narrow strip of land at the bottom of San Diego Bay connects these southern neighborhoods with the rest of the city.
San Diego has one of the top-ten best climates in the United States and has one of the two best summer climates in the country as scored by The Weather Channel.
San Diego area has been variously categorized as having either a semi-arid climate or a Mediterranean climate.
San Diego's climate is characterized by warm, dry summers and mild winters, with most of the annual precipitation falling between December and March.
The city has a mild climate year-round, with an average of 201 days above 70 °F and low rainfall (9–13 inches annually).
Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions.
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gov/Help/working-in-government/benefits/ Responsibilities: Major Duties: 1.
Provides direction into ordering of supplies and new/replacement equipment.
Collaborates with other ancillary support departments in troubleshooting problems with specialty equipment.
Clinic expert; provides consultation to staff and command leadership on advanced concepts related to decontamination and sterilization of each type of equipment and dictated by original manufacturer in accordance with the Food and Drug Association's official validation requirements.
Organizes and implements training opportunities for operating room staff to instrumentation reprocessing and implications to patient care.
Ensures strict adherence to aseptic technique; ensures correct methods of sterilization and disinfection are used, as appropriate for materials being processed.
Provides incentives and opportunities for growth and development for up to thirty staff assigned to the sterile processing department.
Provides a positive attitude for good morale.
Responsible for control of the Sterile Processing Department schedule to ensure proper manning for around the clock operations.
Receives additions and changes to the OR schedule, documenting information as required by OR policy.
Coordinates the accommodations required to meet the needs of changing of surgical cases with the Clinical Coordinator and team leaders for the applicable surgical teams.
Constructs personnel schedules to accommodate safe coverage for procedures as required.
Completes periodic performance appraisals for assigned nurses, operating room technologists and instrument technicians.
Writes yearly performance appraisals, special advancement evaluations, letters of appreciation, commendation, recommendation for medals, and records of counseling sessions.
Maintains good interdepartmental and intradepartmental relations.
Provides a safe environment for staff and patients by requiring compliance with all safety measures to prevent accidents or injuries to patients and equipment.
Participates on selected committees and performs collateral duties as assigned within the Command and Operating Room Department.
Conducts staff meetings for the purpose of exploring policies, procedures, and goals of the department to obtain the support of the employees in the implementation of practice changes.
Reviews, revises, plans, develops, and implements policies and procedures necessary for the delivery of quality care to patients and their families.
Effective change agent-able to influence policy, procedures and new approaches to nursing practice.
Directs and guides staff in providing both physical care and psychological support to patients and families.
In situations requiring a high degree of skill, the incumbent will perform the nursing duties, as well as closely supervise and guide the staff assigned.
As a member of the command Infection Control Committee and command expert on decontamination and sterilization, provides reports about sterilization, performs quality checks for all areas throughout the command and outlying clinics regarding the storage of sterile supplies and the decontamination and sterilization of supplies used in those areas such and branch dental clinics.
Reports to command leadership discrepancies found and offers solutions for those discrepancies in accordance with the regulator bodies.
Effectively interfaces with employees and union representatives on employee suggestions, complaints, grievances and other matters involved in day-to-day administration of labor management agreements.
Business Management: Independently develops sterilization guidelines, ensuring that perioperative standards for all services meet regulatory and professional practice criteria.
Collaborates with multiple surgical subspecialty services in the planning and effective utilization of multi-million dollars' worth of surgical instrumentation.
Collaborates with physicians to provide training opportunities and expansion of the scope of services through the efficient use of sterilization technology.
Liaisons with manufacture to ensure service contract upkeep, technology advances and instrumentation availability for the team.
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Nursing: Serves as Perioperative Nurse Specialist with advanced skills in the utilization of various reprocessing and sterilization technology applied to various equipment types in multiple subspecialties.
Directs and provides hands-on nursing care in the Operating Room in a manner reflective of the hospital's philosophy and objectives.
Independently plans, organizes and implements nursing care in the operating room.
Assesses patients' physical and emotional needs and provides comfort measures and psychological support to the patient and family members/significant others.
Coordinates care of the patient with anesthesia personnel and surgeons.
Performs "scrub" and "circulating" duties as required.
Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early physical and/or psychosocial problems.
Identifies subtle changes in patient's condition and provides insight information to physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
Ensures availability and good working order of supplies and equipment needed during the surgical procedure, ensuring sterility/cleanliness of supplies, equipment and environment.
Adheres to the strictest safety standards in providing a safe patient care and work area, including proper positioning, safe transport of patient to and from the operating room and the proper operation and functioning of needed equipment.
Interprets and studies nursing and patient care problems and suggest solutions, thus participating in the MOR's continuous improvement program.
Maintains accurate and complete operating room records.
Keeps abreast of current trends in the operating room and nursing practice.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications: US Citizenship required Degree: A graduate or higher level degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree, or diploma from an accredited professional nursing educational program is required.
This education must have been accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs, Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education, or an accrediting body recognized by the U.
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Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.
Licensure: A current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a professional nurse from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States; and you must have passed the National Council Licensure Examination.
Foreign Degree: A degree from a Foreign Nursing School.
Official certification from the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools is required for individuals who graduated from foreign nursing schools.
Degree or diploma from a professional nursing program approved by the legally designated State accrediting agency at the time the program was completed by the applicant.
Active, current registration as a professional nurse in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
Professional Nursing Experience: -Specialized experience is defined as: assisting with health education activities; assessing individual’s health status; and providing occupational health consultation.
-One year of operating room experience providing the following surgical services; general, ENT, urology, oral, orthopedic, obstetric and gynecological, ophthalmology procedures.
Conditions of Employment: 1.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Basic Life Saver (BLS) certification.
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Must successfully pass a urinalysis for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
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Mission Essential Position: This position has been designated as mission essential, consistent with the criteria described in DoD Instruction (DoDI) 3020.
42, “Defense Continuity Plan Development.
” Mission essential positions are those that are needed to ensure the continued operation of mission essential functions of an activity, as defined in DoDI 3020.
42.