Surgical Program Manager
LOCATION: Akron, Ohio
CATEGORY: nursing


Overview
At Akron Children’s, careers in nursing feel different. You make an impact on a daily basis, face-to-face, on children and their families. You do much more than treat patients. As the individual your patients come to recognize, rely on and smile at, you go beyond the title of nurse. Because this is more than a job. It’s what you were meant to do.
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Job Description
Job Requisition Number 30701Surgery Verification Program Manager
Full Time 40 Hours/week
Days 8a-430p
Exempt
Hybrid
Summary:
Responsible for the coordination of the American College of Surgeons™ Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement program. Manages the organization of services and systems necessary for a multidisciplinary approach to providing care to children with surgical needs. Must play an active role in the administration and review of children's surgical care across the perioperative continuum. Assumes day-to-day responsibility to process and performance improvement activities. Serves as the practice leader/advocate for the surgical program in order to accomplish organizational and departmental strategic goals and objectives.Responsibilities:
1. Supervises employees, provides direction, coaches, trains, develops, and manages performance to organizational goals and expectations.
2. Prepares, manages, and adheres to department budget to maintain expenditure controls.
3. Coordinates management across the continuum of surgical care, which includes planning and implementation of clinical protocols and practice management guidelines, monitoring care of in-hospital patients, and serving as a resource for clinical practice.
4. Provides intra-facility and regional professional staff development, participates in case review, implements practice guidelines, and directs community-education programs.
5. Monitors clinical processes and outcomes and system issues related to the quality of care provided; develops quality filters, audits, and case reviews; identifies opportunities to improve surgical care in a proactive manner to implement best practices and continuity of care across the perioperative continuum; identifies trends and sentinel events; and helps to outline remedial actions while maintaining confidentiality.
6. Manages, as appropriate, the operational, personnel, and financial aspects of the program. Serves as a liaison to administration, and represents the program on various hospital and community committees to enhance and foster optimal care management.
7. Supervises collection, coding, and developing processes for validation and analysis of data. Designs and oversees the data collection to facilitate performance improvement activities, trend reports, and research while protecting confidentiality.
8. Stabilizes the complex network of many disciplines that work in concert to provide high quality surgical care. Serves as an internal resource for staff in all departments, and acts as an extended liaison for other system entities.
9. Participates in research projects, analysis, and distribution of findings. Facilitates protocol design for accurate data collection, feedback, and analysis, and understands the requirements of research oversight.
10. Participates in the development of children's surgical care systems at the community, state, or national levels.
11. Oversees the writing, review and submission of the PRQ document prior to verification visit.
12. Other duties as required
Other information:
Technical Expertise
1. Experience in pediatric perioperative nursing is required.
2. Experience in performance improvement is preferred.
3. Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.
4. Strong leadership skills including communication/organizational skills, time management, coping skills, motivation, problem-solving, autonomy and supporting the team is required.
5. Strong skill set in analytics, writing, and editing, is required.
6. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required.
Education and Experience
1. Education: BSN is required. MSN required within 5 years.
2. Certification: Preferred
3. Years of relevant experience: 5 years is preferred
4. Years of experience supervising: 2 years is preferred
5. Must show evidence of educational preparation, with a minimum of 16 hours of pediatric continuing education per year (or 48 hours over the 3-year period prior to application) and clinical experience in the care of children undergoing surgery.
Full Time
FTE: 1.000000
Status: Fixed Hybrid
Grow Your Career with Akron Children’s
Here at Akron Children's, we offer many ways for our nurses to succeed and grow professionally. There are multiple ways to grow your nursing career into areas such as leadership, education/professional development, advanced practice, informatics, research, quality, and more.
Benefits
Benefits for Akron Children’s team members go far beyond their compensation. Our comprehensive benefits program offers coverage, connections and resources that enable you to live your best life while growing your career.
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Employee Highlight
What inspires me as a nurse manager is my team of staff nurses and how dedicated they are. It doesn't matter how busy we are. They work and continue to work until the job is done.Karan Johnson
Nurse Manager, Adolescent Unit

Our Promises
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To treat every child as we would our own.
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To treat others as they would like to be treated.
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To turn no child away.
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