Assistant Director of Nursing

Join us at Archway Transitional Care – a place where you’ll be valued, recognized and rewarded for the vital work you do each day. We’ll surround you with a strong team and leadership that supports every aspect of your life – both inside and outside of our centers. And you’ll get to practice your passion in a non-profit, mission-driven organization that’s known for the highest level of care in our communities.

• Assist Director of Nursing with directing, evaluating, and supervising patient care and initiate corrective action as necessary.
• Assess patient care needs and develop individualized plans of patient care.
• Assess patient needs and make recommendations for special rehabilitation programs.
• Evaluate patient care as related to individualized patient needs, family involvement, and physician’s plan of care.
• Conduct or provide patient care conferences.
• Assess patient responses to medication and treatment, and make appropriate nursing action recommendations.
• Provide medications, treatments, diets, rehabilitation and restorative care to patients in accordance with physician’s orders and patient’s individual needs.
• Report problems to the Administrator, conduct daily patient rounds, and initiate corrective action as necessary.
• Direct and implement educational programs, quality assurance program, and infection control program.
• Establish open lines of communication with consultants and consistently follow up action on recommendations.
• Make recommendations of level of care determinations based on physician’s documentation and plan of care.
• Coordinate the care planning/MDS process and committee meetings as necessary.
• Promote the image and reputation of the System by exhibiting servant leadership and providing direct and open lines of communication.
• Contribute to the work of committees, work groups, project management, and other collaborative efforts of the System.
• Perform other duties as necessary to ensure the success of the System.

A minimum of two years of experience in a supervisory capacity in a hospital or long-term care Nursing Center. Should have training experience in rehabilitative and restorative nursing practices. Should have education, training, and/or experience in one of the following: rehabilitative nursing, geriatric nursing and/or Psychosocial nursing.

RN nursing degree from an accredited college or university. Georgia RN License.

None.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or associates of the organization.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram format. Deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word.

Please see minimum qualifications.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The associate is regularly required to sit, talk or hear. The associate frequently is required to walk. Use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The associate is occasionally required to stand. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

EEO / M / F / D / V / Drug Free Workplace.