Assistant Head Nurse – Operating Room

ASSISTANT HEAD NURSE

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center a member of the Medisys Health Network is a 404 bed fully accredited community based teaching hospital and level I Trauma and Stroke Center. We provide general medical, pediatric, and psychiatric emergency services, ambulatory care on and off campus, ambulatory surgery and a broad spectrum of diagnostic and treatment services. We are proud of our uncompromising commitment and approach in providing the highest levels of professional, compassionate care to the many culturally diverse, undeserved patients and residents in Queens. We are currently seeking an experienced Assistant Head Nurse for our Operating Room.

DUTIES

• As Assistant Head Nurse you will provide operational and administrative support to unit Nurse Manager.
• Recruiting and training staff.
• Assigning unit nursing tasks.
• Coordinating and making shift assignments.
• Monitoring and assessing unit staff performance.
• Providing hands on technical assistance, leadership and support for nursing staff.

Preparing and assisting with the preparation of Nurse Management, incident, accident and investigatory reports