What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Nursing position at Hygea Healthcare?
Job Summary
The Director of Nursing is responsible for overseeing and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, professional nursing care to clients in a fast-paced environment. This role involves directing, planning, coordinating, monitoring, scheduling, and supervising nursing operations to optimize efficiency and maintain the safe delivery of behavioral health and nursing services. The DON fosters a positive, empathetic, and professional environment while ensuring the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies, programs, and services that align with the facility’s strategic goals, objectives, and mission.
Essential Job Functions
- The Director of Nursing (DON) assumes authority, responsibility, and accountability for the delivery of nursing services, nursing policies, procedures, and practices.
- The DON determines and schedules nursing staff according to patient census and acuity and is responsible for scheduling licensed nurses for twenty-four hours coverage.
- The DON implements an effective and ongoing program to monitor, evaluate, and improve the quality of nursing care delivered to Hygea Healthcare patients.
- The position is responsible for all day-to-day nursing activities.
- Articulates a vision that inspires others and can attract, develop and retain talent.
- The DON remains on call 24/7 for the needs of the Nursing Department.
- The DON represents nursing in management committees, seeking solutions to problems, works as a team player, problem solve, and monitoring effectiveness by creating KPIs and goals for self and team.
- Working with the Director of Residential Programs, oversees risk management for clinical and program staff.
- Facilitates monthly and quarterly tracking, data collection and reporting on CARF/The Joint Commission standards that impact the organization.
- Develop, monitor, and maintain the nursing department budget, ensuring operational expenses remain within a 1% variance of the approved budget. Identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising patient care and allocate resources efficiently to meet organizational goals
Education and Experience
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program. Master’s degree in nursing preferred. • Current licensure and registration by the Maryland Board of Nursing as a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner or Registered Nurse required • Five to Eight years of professional nursing experience in residential drug treatment or a relevant setting is required.
This job description does NOT constitute an employment contract. Hygea Healthcare is an at-will employer.
- Experience working with individuals suffering from mental disorders and substance abuse required.
- Must have Five years management experience, preferably at the director level or above, and minimum of five years nursing experience.
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of facility, State of Maryland, federal laws and regulations, and CARF/Joint Commission Standards.
- Must be knowledgeable of nursing residential care management, and personnel management, practices, policies and procedures pertaining to long term care administration.
- Must maintain BLS certification and yearly PPD
- Must demonstrate strong leadership, organizational skills, and emotional intelligence.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with peers, manager, staff, patients and their families.
- Must have a value set consistent with a culture that is based upon respect, stewardship, connectedness, entrepreneurship, high ethical standards, and a passion to make a difference with intrinsic motivation.
- Experience with Electronic Medical Records and computer documentation systems and reporting.
- Preferred experience managing operational budgets.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. At any time, Hygea Healthcare may initiate temporary or permanent transfer of any employee to any Hygea Healthcare site in response to the needs of the organization and/or the needs of staff members. This document does not create an employmentDirector of Nursing
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