Director of Nursing

The Director of Nursing is responsible for planning, directing, controlling and evaluating the activities, functions, and personnel of all nursing units to ensure delivery of high quality patient care. Provides patient care/services for all stages of the lifespan including pediatrics, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics.

Exemplifies the IRH Standards of Behavior and Code of Conduct, while striving to identify compliance risk through department led risk assessments, system monitoring, and periodic audits and reporting any identified violation. Ensures immediate action is taken on any issues identified; that policies are developed or revised as necessary: and the efforts are made to ensure a positive and compliant work environment for all employees.

Responsibilities:

• Directs the department activities, functions and management of personnel of the department to ensure that quality nursing care is provided according to the IRH mission, Nursing objectives, and all internal/external regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Ensures appropriate staffing levels and mix to achieve and maintain effective nursing care.
• Implements and ensures the consistent effort toward quality improvement.
• Ensures effective leadership on nurses to facilitate optimal quality of work life for staff.
• Participates in development of patient care programs to ensure effective implementation that is responsive to patient care needs.
• Communicates effectively through the organizational structure.
• Each employee is evaluated and records are maintained on competency of performing their duties including the specific role; effective and safe use equipment; disaster preparedness training; prevention of contamination and transfer of infection when applicable; disaster training; CPR and other life saving interventions when applicable.

Major Work Activities:

• Responsible for the assessment, treatment of care of patients by demonstrating competency in the following as appropriate; clinical knowledge, clinical skills, and communication skills to the ages of the patients served.
• Interpret and implement IRH mission, nursing and hospital objectives.
• Ensure provision of nursing care consistent with AR Nurse Practice Act.
• Participate in the development and achievement of nursing strategic plan.
• Direct the planning, development and implementation of staffing, capital and expense budgets.
• Review budget performance variances and ensure appropriate action is taken.
• Collaborate with Personnel to recruit and maintain staff.
• Prepare and forecast staffing plans. Monitor utilization of staff resources against budget projections, volume and acuity indicators.
• Identify and implement nursing practice models appropriate to patient care needs.
• Assures compliance with hospital and skilled nursing care policies and other regulatory agencies to include state and federal.
• Monitor and evaluate clinical, operational and administrative performance in areas of appropriateness, effectiveness, competence, responsiveness and compassion.
• Ensure the existence and utilization of a meaningful quality improvement monitoring system that addresses quality and appropriateness of care delivered.
• Analyze trends and patterns in clinical and financial performance of resource utilization.
• Actively participate on assigned task force groups.
• Participate in development of policies and procedures affecting nursing staff.
• Recruit, orient and develop nurse managers.
• Communicate consistent standards of performance, responsibility and accountability to nurse managers.
• Implement performance feedback measures, formal and informal to improved leadership behavior consistent with the management philosophy of the department of Nursing.
• Motivate staff by demonstrating a highly visible, effective, and articulate advocate style for nursing.
• Establish staff development activities to maintain quality of staff.
• Identify changes and trends in the nursing profession and healthcare and integrate these into planning.
• Collaborate with other departments and educational resources in planning and organizing the implementation of new programs.
• Promote and maintain harmonious relationships among personnel supervised, medical staff, patients, and other departments.
• Monitor, evaluate and identify opportunities and problems in patient care and resource utilization and work effectively with appropriate medical, professional and administrative staff to develop strategies to address.
• Completes competency checklist annually or more often as required by department policy, participants in disaster drills.
• Demonstrates knowledge of disease processes; diagnostic tests, normal and abnormal; treatment modalities and expected outcomes; psychosocial needs of various age groups; growth and development of infants, children and adolescents; the aging processes, associated complicating factors and behaviors.
• Able to demonstrate ability to complete tests, procedures or tasks normally required of position; can appropriately document patient responses; physical, emotional, verbal and non-verbal; recognizes and functions accordingly in relation to priorities of patient needs.
• Demonstrates ability to obtain information from patient/family; can explain tests, procedures or tasks to various age groups appropriate to their level of comprehension; demonstrates ability to communicate patient needs to physician and clinical peers.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $35.00 - $40.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• progressive experience in nursing management positions: 3 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• RN (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Calico Rock, AR 72519 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $35 - $40