What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Nursing DON - TN - On Site position at Vensure Employer Solutions?
Position Summary
The DON is a registered nurse who oversees and supervises the care of all the residents. The DON also provides direct resident/patient care.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
The DON is a registered nurse who oversees and supervises the care of all the residents. The DON also provides direct resident/patient care.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Overall management of the entire nursing department and staffing levels.
- Develop and implement nursing policies and procedures and ensure compliance.
- Responsible for ensuring resident safety and that all residents are treated with utmost respect.
- Develop and conduct in-services for the clinical staff.
- Responsible for the recruiting, hiring and training of nursing staff.
- Coordinates pharmacy services and destruction of expired/discontinued medication.
- Liaison between the facility, physicians and family members.
- Being a witness at a trial in the event of litigation.
- Work closely with all other departments to ensure excellent overall resident care.
- Responsible for department budgeting and reporting.
- Responsible for keeping current on any regulation changes and disseminating this information appropriately.
- Participate in QA, Utilization Review and Patient Care conferences.
- Actively participate in and assist with all state surveys and required follow-up activity.
- Coordinate MDS and care planning.
- Conduct employee appraisals and resolve problems including disciplinary actions and terminations.
- Must maintain employee and resident/patient confidentiality at all times.
- Provide direct/hands-on resident/patient care as needed
- The Director of Nursing is responsible for supervising and managing the ADON, and entire nursing staff either directly or indirectly
- 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.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in the Microsoft Suite products and Point Click Care (PCC).
- Physical demands
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Prolonged use of a desktop 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
- Graduation from an Accredited School of Nursing with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred (BSN).
- Must be in good standing with the State Board of Nursing and maintain all required continuing education/licensing requirements at all times.
- Minimum of 7 years nurse management experience preferred.
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