INTERIM SPD Manager

Interim SPD Manager

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The SPD interim manager that SHC places in your SPD area can:

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• Manage the daily operations of the SPD, including practice standards, staffing, budgets, fiscal management, and quality improvement

• Address management issues identified through hospital process improvement efforts

• Develop and administer policies, procedures, and practices related to sterile processing

• Establish and maintain customer satisfaction of serviced perioperative areas and physicians

• Develop and implement action plans to improve staff development

• Function as a resource and role model for clinical expertise

• Hire, evaluate, manage, motivate, and counsel SPD personnel

• Maintain all protocols for quality control, records, labor relations, fiscal assets, and federal/compliance guidelines, including the Joint Commission, the Association of perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN), and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

• Manage and control expenditures within budgets

• Participate in hospital fire, safety, and disaster programs

• Support and enforce infection control policies and procedures

• Maintain a professional approach with confidentiality

• Communicate effectively with medical, nursing, and interdepartmental staffs

• Assist with recruitment and transfer of SPD to a new manager

• Mentor a new manager as needed