What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) - TN - On Site position at Vensure Employer Solutions?
Position Summary
Assists the Director of Nursing in directing activities of licensed and non-licensed personnel whom provide health care and nursing services to residents on a 24-hour, 7- day per week basis.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Assists the Director of Nursing in directing activities of licensed and non-licensed personnel whom provide health care and nursing services to residents on a 24-hour, 7- day per week basis.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Assists the DON in planning, developing and supervising the activities of the nursing staff.
- Assists in the development and implementation of nursing services, objectives, policies and procedures.
- Works with the DON to recruit, hire and train nursing staff.
- Assists DON with employee appraisals, and resolving problems including disciplinary action.
- Acts as the back-up for the DON, RN and LVN staff.
- May be required to provide direct resident care as needed.
- Oversees clinical operations, including making daily rounds and monitoring resident conditions.
- Responsible for ensuring resident safety, and ensuring residents are treated with the utmost respect.
- Liaison between the residents, family members and the physicians.
- Attends staff meetings and conducts staff meeting if the DON is unavailable.
- Provides reports and recommendations to the DON concerning the operation of nursing services
- Assists the DON in the design, implementation and evaluation of nursing systems that ensure consistent delivery of care and maintains and promotes resident rights.
- Assists DON with conducting ongoing in-services for the nursing staff
- Maintains confidentiality in all aspects of the position regarding residents and employees.
- Must keep abreast of regulatory changes and communicate changes appropriately
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Physical demands
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Prolonged use of a desk top or laptop computer.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand; walk and talk, read or hear.
- Frequent use of all office related equipment to include; copier/scanner/fax, telephone, calculator
- Travel by auto or airline may be required.
- Minimum requirements to perform this position include graduation from an Accredited School of Nursing with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing preferred.
- Must be in good standing with the State Board of Nursing and maintain all required continuing education/licensing requirements.
- 3-5 years of nurse management, preferably in a long term care facility.
- To preform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in the Microsoft Suite products.
- Knowledge and experience with PCC preferred.
- Must maintain all required continuing education/licensing.
- Must remain in good standing with the State Board of Nursing at all times.
