Quality of Care: • Supports surgical teams with expert clinical guidance, troubleshooting, and workflow optimization to maintain patient safety, improve Operating Room efficiency, and ensure high‑quality surgical care. • Collaborates with the nursing team to provide direct or indirect patient care based on identified patient needs. • Advocates for patients, families, and nursing team members to ensure patient rights and an optimal healthcare environment. • Assists in the formation of quality improvement programs utilizing the framework of structure, process and outcome based on national benchmarks. • Evaluates quality data and translates evidenced based knowledge into recommendations to improve the quality of care and clinical practice. • Collaborates with nursing team members to identify interventions that reflect current scientific knowledge, are evidence based and consistent with patient and family needs. • Supports and implements the principles of a High Reliability Organization (HRO) in daily practice • Advocates for patient safety by identifying risks, escalating concerns, and ensuring adherence to perioperative safety protocols, sterile technique, and regulatory standards. • Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions and makes recommendations to enhance quality of care and nursing practice. Participates in performance improvement activities related to perioperative services. • Maintains strong knowledge of safety and regulatory standards, including AORN, Joint Commission, CMS, and OSHA requirements. • Demonstrates thorough understanding of Operating Room procedures, sterile technique, and perioperative best practices. Education: • Identifies the educational needs of team members, patients and families concerning alterations in health, the disease process, current evidence-based treatment for disease processes, the hospital plan of care, and discharge planning. • Identifies the clinical and professional development needs of the nursing team and develops and provides educational programs and conferences for the staff. • Supports the training of novice clinicians by serving as an instructor, role model, and mentor. • Assists in designing orientation and training curriculums. • Pursues and participates in formal and independent learning activities to enhance knowledge, clinical competency and professional development. Administration: • Participates in performance improvement activities related to area of specialization and/or clinical unit. • Assists in policy, protocol, order set and competency development and review as needed. • Participates in hospital and system-wide Shared Governance and assists in the development of clinical goals related to nursing. • Promotes recruitment and retention by providing guidance, support and professional development opportunities to team members and students. • Promotes positive hospital image through collaboration and networking. • Assists and participates in the preparation for regulatory agency visits and disease specific accreditation visits • Assists with the implementation of policies, procedures and protocols from regulatory agencies and helps to promote and improve the highest standards or care. • Assists and supports achieving centers of excellence recognition from professional organizations. Individual practice: • Evaluates own clinical and professional performance according to the standards of the appropriate professional and regulatory bodies. • Seeks feedback regarding own practice from peers and colleagues and takes action to improve practice. • Actively pursues continuing educational, academic and certification opportunities to maintain ongoing competency • Maintains membership in national organizations for professional development Ethics: • Fosters the establishment of an ethical environment that supports the rights of all participants. Contributes to the resolution of ethical dilemmas. • Serves as a mentor and role model to peers and team members. Research: • Evaluates existing practice based on current research findings and translates this knowledge into practice. • Promotes evidenced based practice in the clinical and professional environment. • Supports dissemination of internal EBP and research projects at the local, system, and national level. Collegiality: • Identifies and participates in opportunities to share skills, knowledge, and strategies for patient care and system improvement. • Promotes a learning environment that enables nursing and other healthcare personnel to make optimal contributions that affect the healthcare system. • Participates in professional organizations, enterprise-wide committees, and Shared Governance to address issues of concern in meeting patient needs and improving nursing practice Collaboration: • Collaborates with other disciplines in consultation, teaching, management, and research activities to improve outcomes in nursing practice and enhance the healthcare environment. • Utilizes the Shared Governance forum to provide support for enhancing education, practice, and quality improvement. • Collaborates with nurse managers and directors to identify clinical activities to facilitate professional growth of team members and areas of unit scope and role expansion. #LI-MW1 Education: • Masters Degree of Nursing required License & Certifications: • Current NJ (New Jersey) Registered Nurse License required • Basic Life Support required • CNOR certification required Experience: • Minimum 3-5 Years of Operating Room/ Perioperative experience required • 3 years of previous Clinical Specialist experience preferred