UPMC Leader Surgery Center has an exciting leadership opportunity for a Chief CRNA interested in growing our professional team of CRNAs in York, PA. Come join our team and make a difference in your career!
Primary Duties
Performs direct patient care in a manner that reflects patient care standards.
Serves as a role model and as resource person to staff members in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nurse care for patients.
Develops comprehensive, innovative, realistic goals and objectives for the CRNA’s in collaboration with the patient care team.
Leadership
Promotes effective planning and utilization anesthesia resources for efficient and cost effective delivery of quality care.
Manage and review care and practice issues
Serves as a resource in problem solving, mediating, and negotiating between anesthesia care team.
Acts as a role model in the development of staff in the charge nurse role.
Performs growth and development conferences, coaches employees for performance and provides feedback.
Performs annual CRNA performance evaluations.
Empowers Anesthesia Care Team to take ownership of their actions and responsibilities.
Demonstrates commitment to the development and implementation of innovative strategies to recruit and retain quality personnel.
Facilitates growth and change in a proactive manner.
Demonstrates professionalism through accountability and confidentiality.
Recruits, interviews, hires, counsels, disciplines, and when necessary,
Performs duties in accordance with the Employee Standards of Conduct.
Supports the essential process of sustaining and improving performance.
Monitors, evaluates, and promotes collaborative, productive team functioning of all members of the Anesthesia Care Team.
Directs staff to appropriate resources to enhance delivery of care.
- Promotes open communication, positive physician/staff interactions and the timely resolution of inter/intradepartmental issues.
Assesses staffing needs of current and upcoming shifts and utilizes resources to provide for changing care needs. o Communicates effectively in inter/intradepartmental matters.
Facilitates inter-shift communication
Monitor CRNA schedule and payroll
Responds to and monitors incident reports
Ensures department is in compliance with regulatory bodies
Conducts staff meetings for CRNA’s monthly
Assumes 24-hr. responsibility and accountability for direction and coordination of activities of clinical unit.
Professional Development
Demonstrates commitment to own professional development
Maintains a collaborative relationship with peers
Promotes the anesthesia profession through community involvement and participation in professional organizations and as a mentor for all health care providers.
Completes required competencies.
Customer Service
Demonstrates the highest degree of customer awareness by seeking out opportunities to identify and meet the needs of internal and external customers.
Treats each person as an individual with respect and dignity
Is receptive to questions and criticism and willing to offer assistance.
Demonstrates genuine concern and empathy
Consistently performs all of the above in a friendly, courteous manner.
Maintains accountability for patient satisfaction throughout the episode of care.
Secondary Duties:
Completes unit-specific educational requirements as well as System related fire, safety, and emergency procedures.
Performance improvement; Facilitates the performance improvement process by continuous monitoring and identification of patient outcomes, intra/interdepartmental and environmental.
