Covenant Health

Service Coordinator, Post Anesthesia Care

Full Time, 80 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift

9AM-5:30PM, Monday-Friday. Some Holiday Call Required.

Fort Sanders Regional Overview:

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is an award-winning, certified, and accredited facility with 468 beds. As a Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center, Fort Sanders offers state-of-the art care that maximizes recovery from stroke.  We are also the region’s leader in technology in areas such as bariatric surgery, robotic surgery and minimally invasive spine surgery. Our door-to-balloon times for heart attack patients are below the national average, and our hip fracture center offers advanced diagnosis, surgery and recovery procedures for hip patients.

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a member of Covenant Health, a locally-owned, non-profit health system based in Knoxville, TN, with a “patient-focused” culture. It has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as its 2020 “Best-in-State-Employer” for Tennessee. The CEO of our company, Jim VanderSteeg, attends every new employee orientation and will ask you to sign our pledge of excellence to always put patients first, strive for excellence in everything we do, and make Covenant Health the first and best choice for patients in our region. As you’d expect, we offer our employees a robust benefits package, including: offering unmatched medical insurance, tuition reimbursement; student loan repayment assistance, certification bonuses; leadership and professional development programs; an employer-matched 401(k); and a generous Combined Time Off (CTO) program.

Department Description:

The Post Anesthesia Care Unit at Fort Sanders Regional is a 15 bay fast paced, team driven unit that serves a wide variety of postoperative patients.  Our team recovers the majority of our surgical patients from our 17 suite ORs.  In addition, we provide Phase I recovery care to patients requiring general anesthesia from other procedural areas.  Our team consists of RNs, perioperative technicians and unit secretaries.

Nursing responsibilities include some preoperative but mostly postoperative Phase I recovery care.  Nurses are trained in Phase I recovery, working as a team with our anesthesiologists to meet safe criteria for discharge to the next phase of care.  Our department is open from 6 AM-11 PM, Monday-Friday with holiday, after hours and weekend call coverage.  Call coverage for RNs is 4 weeknight calls per 6 weeks.  Weekend call coverage is 1 12 hour day call Saturday or Sunday and 1 12 hour night call Saturday or Sunday per 6 weeks.  Holiday call is on a yearly rotating schedule.

We are looking for team focused RNs who are highly motivated with critical thinking skills, computer proficiency, detail oriented and who put their patients first.

Position Summary:

Provides leadership and oversight for specialty area.  Acts as a resource for the specialty area.

Recruiter: Lacey Spoon || Lspoon2@covhlth.com || 865-374-5404

• Develops service goals.
• Responds to specialty/emergency/needs as needed.
• Functions as a resource person and team leader.
• Demonstrates competence in critical skills to include delivery of care appropriate to the age-specific needs of the population served.
• Evaluates service inventory and adjusts.
• Orders specialty items.
• Serves as liaison with medical staff and other customers.
• Serves as expert, resource, and consultant for specialty area.
• Coordinates maintenance of service equipment.
• Maintains proficiency for specialty area.
• Researches alternatives for usage of equipment/instruments.
• Provides feedback (verbal and written) on staff performance.
• Refers personnel conflict management to supervisor, manager, or director.
• Develops and implements educational training programs for personnel.
• Assumes departmental charge responsibilities as needed (weekends, 3-11, holidays, etc.).
• Recommends staff assignments to provide optimal customer satisfaction.
• Identifies learning needs with staff.
• Monitors schedule in advance to prevent conflicts and coordinates needs.
• Problem solves and trouble shoots specialty conflicts (equipment, instrumentation, etc.).
• Researches and submits proposed budget purchase items each year and as needed.
• Maintains/updates specialty charges.
• Maintains, develops, and updates specialty surgeon preference cards.
• Develops specialty instrumentation trays and procedural packs.
• Meets with staff monthly to discuss staff needs, goals and problems as associated with the services.
• Provides at least eight (8) credit hours of in-service per year.
• Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

Minimum Education: 

None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.

Minimum Experience:

Minimum of four (4) years professional experience.

Licensure Requirement:

Valid Tennessee RN license or current and active national Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) certification established by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA).