Travel Nurse Director RN - Preoperative
Brooklyn, NY
Prime Staffing
5x8 hrs, Days

Required Skills & Experience:
-Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive nursing leadership experience, including experience leading multiple service lines or sites.
-Communication and relationship building, knowledge of the health care environment, professionalism, and leadership (AONL, 2023) 
-Demonstrated ability to interpret operational and financial data to drive OR optimization and performance improvement. 
-Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills for engaging physicians, staff, and executive leadership. 
-Working knowledge of applicable regulatory, accreditation, and reimbursement requirements affecting perioperative services.

Preferred Skills & Experience:
-Direct clinical or leadership experience in perioperative services (OR, PACU, Endoscopy, or ambulatory surgery). 
-Experience with OR block scheduling, capital and operating budget management, and multi-site or system-level leadership.

Responsibilities Cont'd:
-Reviews staffing and scheduling data regularly to address overtime, agency utilization, and turnover trends. 
-Builds and sustains collaborative relationships with surgeons, anesthesiologists, CRNAs, sterile processing, hospital administration, and ancillary departments to support coordinated perioperative care. 
-Chairs or co-chairs the OR Governance/Perioperative Executive Committee, facilitating shared decision-making on block time, scheduling policy, and service-line priorities. 
-Represents perioperative services in system-level committees, and community or professional forums, consistent with AONL's communication and relationship-building competency domain  (AONL, 2023) 
-Fosters a culture of psychological safety, teamwork, and shared governance among perioperative staff. 
-Maintains survey readiness for The Joint Commission, New York State Department of Health, CMS Conditions of Participation, and other applicable accrediting and regulatory bodies. 
-Leads perioperative quality and patient-safety programs, including surgical site infection prevention, National Performance Goals, and never-event reduction initiatives. 
-Uses data in system-level decision-making and incorporates evidence into nursing practice to improve outcomes, consistent with graduate-level perioperative nursing competencies. 
-Ensures timely completion of incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action plans related to perioperative services.

Education:

Required Education:
-Master’s degree in nursing, Health Care Administration, Business Administration, or a directly related field.

Required Certifications& Licensure:
-Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in New York State, or eligibility for licensure.
-Basic Life Support (BLS) certification. 

Preferred Certifications & Licensure:
-Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR), Certified Surgical Services Manager/Leader (CSSM/CSSL), Nurse Executive-Board Certified (NE-BC), or NEA-BC.