Director of Nursing- RN Home Health

AlfaBEST Home Care -

Director of Nursing

Job Title : Director of Nursing

Supervised By : Administrator

Supervises Directly : Direct Care Staff

Job Summary : Oversees and supports all clinical services with overall responsibilities ensuring clinical processes, staff, and policies adhere to all federal and state regulations. An integral part of the agency leadership team, this role will set the accepted standard of care and clinical compliance for the organization.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Assures all clinical functions, processes, and policies meet all state and federal regulations and rules.
• Monitors to ensure orders are documented correctly and timely. Provides training and guidance to clinical staff regarding the requirements and agency expectations of orders for disciplines and / or treatments and services. This includes but is not limited to communication with home health ordering physicians for start of care orders and timely recertification orders.
• Follows up with intake / staffing coordinators to ensure that referrals result in a timely start of care or are well documented as non-admitted referrals.
• Assumes total responsibility for the agency’s QAPI program.
• Assures coordination of care between agency care staff, including contracted providers. Assures coordination of care between Agency and external providers as required and per agency policy.
• Serves as liaison between this Agency and physicians, hospitals, and other agencies in the community regarding patient care and clinical matters
• Keeps the lines of communication open between appropriate personnel of the Agency and of area hospitals to assure the flow of patient care information.
• Provides positive attitude as example of professional behavior for staff both the office staff and direct care staff.
• Provides leadership in orientation and competency verification of agency direct care staff.
• Assures contracted direct care providers meet agency policy requirements.
• Provides direct, in field, supervision of newly hired clinicians and assures supervision of all staff is completed per regulations and agency policy including documentation of same.
• Participate in the field according to staff needs, providing spot checks and followup for specific services and / or quality improvement issues.
• Provides direct response and guidance to staff for problem resolution in patient care.
• Provides information and reports to Administrator as instructed, including but not limited to corrective actions in Plan of Correction or Quality Improvement activities. Reports will be provided timely and without requiring reminders by the administration.
• Promotes and educates regarding the concepts of infection control and universal precautions in coordinating / performing patient care activities to prevent contamination and transmission of disease and ensure adequate orientation and staff development needs are met through collaboration with the Education Department
• Work with and ensure support of the Sales and Marketing Staff to progress the company in the community, build census and grow the company in line with our Mission Statement
• Always represents the Agency in a professional and loyal manner. Always demonstrates professional deportment and communication style with the following, but not limited to, all office staff, field staff, contractors, vendors, and patients and physicians and their offices.
• Participates in, by development of and / or presentation of staff development activities and in-service meetings to educate the personnel.
• Must be prepared to support and provide all nursing clinical visit needs if necessary that ensures patient safety and clinical compliance.
• Develops and maintains training and in-services on the following, but not limited to, topics required by state licensure, clinical services, rules and regulations, agency policies and expectations.
• Initiates joint projects and presentations to improve patient care and / or education of community members on issues pertinent to agency interests.
• Participates in the development of identifying future opportunities for home care specialization.
• Serves as a member of the administrative on-call team. Responsible for reviewing on-call logs and assure follow-up completed and documented.
• Participates, as assigned by Administrator, on compilation of data for the annual agency evaluation and / or quarterly governing body review reports.
• Participates in Quality Improvement activities as assigned by Administrator.
• Trains staff and assures delegation of components of Quality Improvement as needed to meet the total expectations of this position including review of clinical and aide visit notes, orders, and documentation.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED :

QUALIFICATIONS / EDUCATION REQUIRED :

ABILITIES, SKILLS, AND KNOWLEDGE :

non-technical users.

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TRAVEL :

The employee is required to travel frequently to complete agency business.