Director - Nursing

Exciting Opportunity:
Moorings Park Grande Lake Assisted Living Community, Garden View partners will play a vital role in enhancing the lives of our residents by providing comprehensive support across dining, activities, and personal care while fostering meaningful relationships based on the Best Friends Approach to dementia care. This philosophy prioritizes respect, dignity, and engagement, ensuring that each resident feels valued, understood, and supported.

Moorings Park is looking for a Director of Nursing
. The Director of Nursing assumes authority, responsibility, and accountability for the delivery of nursing services in the Assisted Living facility at Moorings Park. In collaboration with facility Administration, allocates department resources in an efficient and economic manner to enable each resident to attain or maintain the highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well‑being. The Director of Nursing collaborates with other departments, medical professionals, consultants, and organizations, including government agencies and advocacy groups, to develop, support and coordinate resident care, related administrative functions, and to represent the interests of the facility and organization.

• Develops, maintains, and implements nursing policies and procedures that conform to current standards of nursing practice, facility philosophy, and operational policies while maintaining compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.
• Trains, communicates and interprets policies and procedures to nursing staff, and monitors staff practices and implementation.
• Participates in admission decisions and may visit prospective residents before admission.
• Participates in daily or weekly management team meetings to discuss resident status, census changes, personnel, or resident complaints or concerns.
• Responsible for the supervision of assigned staff, including hiring, training, and evaluating performance.
• Ensures delivery of compassionate quality care and nursing supervision as evidenced by adequate services and staff coverage on unit, absence of odors, general cleanliness, prevention of pressure wounds, and apparent maintenance of optimal resident functions.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and application of Key Clinical Quality Indicators and proactively monitors and implements systems to achieve and/or surpass company thresholds.
• Exercises overall supervision of resident assessments and care plans.
• Reviews 24‑hour report from every unit daily to monitor and ensure timely, effective responses to significant changes in condition, transfers, discharges, unexplained injuries, falls, behavioral episodes, and medication errors.
• Collaborates with physicians, consultants, community agencies, and institutions to improve the quality of services and to resolve identified problems.
• Coordinates nursing services with all other departments including Therapy.
• Oversees nursing schedules to assure they meet resident needs and regulatory and budgetary standards.
• Participates in the recruitment and selection of nursing personnel and assures sufficient staff are hired.
• Oversees and supervises development and delivery of in‑service education to equip nursing staff with sufficient knowledge and skills to provide compassionate, quality care and respect for resident rights.
• Proactively develops positive employee relations. Promotes teamwork, mutual respect, and effective communication.
• Performs rounds to observe care and to interview staff, residents, families or other interested parties.
• Monitors staff for compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates and facility policies on workplace safety. Proactively develops procedures and incentives to promote workplace safety and safe work practices.
• Establishes, implements, and monitors the infection control program designed to provide a safe, sanitary, and comfortable environment designed to prevent the transmission of disease and infection.
• Prepares or reviews infection control surveillance reports to identify trends and to develop effective actions to control and prevent infections. Submits an infection control report to the QA Committee.
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