What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Nurses position at Cox Healthcare?
POSITION SUMMARY: Responsible for overall care of assigned residents and supervision of direct care staff in the community.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Current, valid RN license.
- Experience in long-term healthcare required.
- Experience in leadership in a healthcare environment required.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills needed, both verbal and written documentation.
POSITION DUTIES:
- Help implement and evaluate care plans for individual care of each resident.
- Maintains appropriate nursing service objectives, goals, and standards of nursing practices.
- Receive, transcribe, and implement physician’s orders in a timely manner.
- Reports required condition changes, events to appropriate parties.
- Administers medication/treatments as prescribed.
- Monitors infection control compliance.
- Investigates/documents accidents/incidents.