Job Duties
- Oversee daily operations for the endoscopy department alongside the nurse manager
- Review the daily procedure schedule and coordinate room assignments, staffing, and equipment needs
- Facilitate efficient patient flow through preoperative, procedural, and recovery areas.
- Coordinate with gastroenterologists, anesthesia providers, nursing staff, and other departments to minimize delays
- Monitor procedure start times, room turnover, and schedule changes
- Address operational challenges, including delays, cancellations, staffing shortages, and equipment issues
- Coordinate add-on procedures and schedule adjustments as appropriate
- Ensure procedure rooms are prepared and appropriately stocked before the start of each day
- Serve as the primary clinical resource for endoscopy nurses, technicians, and support staff
- Assign daily responsibilities based on staffing levels, patient acuity, and procedural requirements
- Provide clinical guidance and assistance with complex patient care situations
- Support orientation, training, and competency validation for new and existing staff
- Monitor staff adherence to departmental/facility policies, procedures, and safety standards
- Ensure staff follow physician orders and approved clinical protocols
- Address immediate staff concerns and escalate performance or employee relations issues to the Endoscopy Manager or Director of Nursing (DON)
- Promote teamwork, accountability, and effective communication
- Assist with staff breaks and coverage to maintain safe patient care
- Ensure compliance with patient identification, informed consent verification, procedural time-outs, and other safety protocols
- Monitor adherence to infection prevention and control practices
- Ensure appropriate patient assessments, monitoring, documentation, and discharge processes
- Oversee compliance with moderate sedation policies, when applicable
- Respond to patient safety concerns, clinical emergencies, and changes in patient condition
- Ensure emergency equipment, medications, and supplies are available and operational
- Assist with incident reporting, follow-up, and corrective actions
- Participate in quality improvement initiatives and patient safety reviews
- The Charge Nurse provides operational oversight of reprocessing but does not necessarily perform all reprocessing duties or replace the designated infection prevention professional
- Monitor completeness and accuracy of nursing documentation
- Support compliance with CMS Conditions for Coverage, California requirements, and applicable accreditation standards, such as AAAHC; assist with survey readiness and corrective action plans
- Ensure required departmental logs, checklists, and quality control records are maintained
- Participate in departmental audits and follow-up on identified deficiencies
Required Education and License/Certification
- Associates level degree from an accredited school of nursing required; Bachelor's level preferred
- Active RN California License
- Current AHA BLS, ACLS, PALS Required
Qualifications and Skills
- 2 years Endoscopy experience required; 3-5 years preferred
- Previous leadership/supervisor experience required
- ASC experience preferred
- Strong ethical and moral character references
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians and with their office personnel, coworkers, and other healthcare facilities in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner
- Ability to promote favorable facility image with physicians, patients, and general public
- Ability to make decisions and solve problems
- Language skills adequate for high-level written, interpersonal, and telephone communication in American English
- Electronic Medical Record experience; EPIC experience preferred
Benefits/Perks
- Blue Shield Health Insurance (employer paid or buy-up)
- Dental & Vision (employer paid)
- Life & Long-term Disability (employer paid)
- Accrued vacation time, sick time, education time, etc.
- 401k with profit sharing
Schedule: M-F 8hr Variable Shifts
