Job Responsibilities :

Promotes and restores patients' health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area;

directing and developing staff; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staffs; providing physical and psychological support for patients, friends, and families.

Job Duties :

Accomplishes nursing human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees;

communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; recommending compensation actions; adhering to policies and procedures.

Meets nursing operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards;

resolving problems; identifying system improvements.

Meets nursing financial standards by providing annual budget information; monitoring expenditures; identifying variances;

implementing corrective actions.

• Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
• Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
• Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care;
• enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations;

measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments.

• Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up on work results.

RATES : $52-$65 AN HR.

Last updated : 2024-06-20