OR coordinator for a specific service?

[mhy12784]

So I'm under the impression that in the immediate near future I am going to become the OR coordinator for one of the larger services (ie orthopedics surgical coordinator) in my OR. (Which I'm quite excited about)

But I don't have any idea what this would consist of, nor the duties/roles/responsibilities involved. Anyone have any idea what this would or might entail?

My hospital hasn't had them before so there aren't any other coworkers I could ask. And im trying to get as much knowledge as possible so I can brainstorm some ideas before I meet with the director of surgical services next week. I also have a feeling that I'll be defining the roles and responsibilities of the position a bit over time

And on a side note are there any books/resources on this kind of thing? I've spent a bit of time looking through AORN and they really only have little seminar things which seem to be incredibly expensive and different than what I'm looking for.

Thanks so much!

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Well, the service line coordinators for my facility are responsible for inventory management (ordering items that aren't kept in the general hospital storage room), managing staff who are considered members of their teams (even though they may also work in other specialties, they are assigned to a coordinator for management purposes) and all that that entails, working with surgeons who want to bring in new procedures/equipment/supplies, doing value analysis for those things, finding substitutes for items on backorder (my coordinator has had to do a lot of this in the last 6 months), maintaining/updating/creating preference cards, being the go-to person for questions about anything in the specialty they manage (and I do mean anything), going to a lot of pointless meetings, and a lot of other management "stuff".

At my facility, they are not clinical staff at all, although having experience as clinical staff is a must. It's all management, all the time. The only exception might be those days where we're short staffed, they miraculously don't have a meeting to be in, and they can help with lunch reliefs.

Can you tell management positions don't interest me?

[schnookimz]

At my facility they're also responsible for all of the preference cards in their service line.

[mhy12784]

What kind of gig could two to 3 years experience as a coordinator land ya assuming you had the appropiate letters to back it up? (MSN, MBA, CNOR)