Assistant Director of Nursing; RN

The primary purpose of your job position is to aide the DON in organizing, developing, and directing the overall operation of our Nursing Department in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern our facility, and as may be required by the Administrator and Medical Director, to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times.

As Assistant Director of Nursing Services you are delegated the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for carrying out your assigned duties. In the absence of the Medical Director, you are charged with carrying out the patient‑care policies established by this facility.

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

• Be fully responsible for delegated responsibilities, having the same authority as the Director of Nursing Services in those delegated areas, even when the Director of Nursing Services is available.
• Direct the nursing services department as well as its programs and activities as
• Handle paperwork related to procedures that govern the day‑to‑day functions of the nursing service department and ensure that personnel comply with such policies and
• Make written and oral reports/recommendations to the DON and/or Administrator as necessary/required, concerning the operation of the nursing service
• Assist in developing methods for coordinating nursing services with other patient services to ensure the continuity of the patients’ total regimen of care.
• Ensure that all nursing service personnel are in compliance with their respective job
• Participate in the maintenance and implementation of the facility’s quality assurance program for the nursing service department.
• Participate in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies as requested by the Administrator.
• Meet with the nursing staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the department’s services, programs, and activities.
• Interpret the department’s policies and procedures to personnel, patients, visitors, and government agencies as required.
• Perform administrative duties such as admitting, discharging, and transferring patients, completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, including I & A forms, etc., as necessary, and as

• Serve on various committees and attend meetings of the facility (i.e., Infection Control, Policy Advisory, Pharmaceutical, Quality Assessment, ) as required.
• Prepare written and/or oral reports of the nursing service programs and activities to submit to such committee(s) as
• Provide information to the Quality Assurance and Assessment Committee as

• Participate in developing the agenda for the Care Plan Committee meetings as
• Participate in regularly scheduled reviews of the discharge plans and make such plans available to the Care Plan Committee as required or as may be
• Implement recommendations from established committees as instructed by the

• Determine the staffing needs, and ensure that a sufficient number of licensed practical nurses and certified nursing assistants are available for all shifts to ensure that quality care is
• Develop work assignments, and handle scheduling for the nursing department as
• Make daily rounds of the nursing service department to ensure that all nursing service personnel are…