Interim SPD Manager

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

• 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