Director of Nursing

Description

Residential Director of Nursing – Shreveport LA New Day Recovery is guided by a philosophy where hope, respect, and personal dignity serve as the catalysts for rebirth and transformation. It is our belief that when individuals are spiritually alive, mentally clear and alert, emotionally stable, and physically fit, they cannot help but maintain a socially balanced lifestyle. To achieve this, New Day Recovery seeks to provide the highest quality care that is grounded in evidence-based practices while, at the same time, providing a sense of connection and belonging for those who come through our doors seeking a new day and a new life.

Join our team to help save patients’ lives.

• Provides professional nurse management and individual care services in a medical detox/residential care program.
• Provides structured, treatment team meetings daily, with all detox staff on duty to review progress, concerns and changes in treatment, in conjunction with Chief Medical Officer
• Provides direct supervision of medical and housekeeping staff, including interviewing, hiring and scheduled performance evaluations.
• Monitors compliance with logging, documentation, tracking and reporting per detox/residential treatment regulations and requirements through DHHS, JC and private insurance.
• Maintains quality assurance of nursing documentation and individual records.
• Creates and updates written standard operating procedures and trains staff as necessary.
• Creates and manages all in-services required by licensing and JC standards as necessary.
• Supervises and manages nursing care delivery. Works with the Chief Executive Officer on assuring safe staffing ratios and nursing coverage.
• Supervises the medical department to ensure high quality individual care which includes scheduling and training assigned employees, evaluating their performance, developing action plans and implementing corrective action as required.
• Maintains nursing, residential technician and housekeeping schedules to ensure appropriate staffing levels.
• Manages and takes inventory of stock medications and supplies.
• Updates and maintains policies and procedures related to nursing care delivery.
• Reviews and signs off on nursing documentation as needed.
• Ability to initiate work independently, flexibility of scheduling for work hours to include on-call responsibilities.
• If staffing requires, will be responsible to perform duties of the charge nurse, admissions nurse or staff nurse on any shift.
• Maintains professional boundaries with clients and interacts with them in an appropriate manner.
• Collects data on significant adverse medication reactions and significant medication errors and presents data in team meetings.
• Institutes performance improvement initiatives within the Nursing/Medical service, identifying opportunities to improve department processes by reviewing incident reports, implementing root cause analyses and instituting departmental corrective action plans when indicated.
• Identifies infection risks and establishes priorities among the risks identified.
• Sets goals to minimize the possibility of spreading infection and addresses its priority risks.
• Oversees the operations of the infection prevention, epidemiology, facility hygiene and relevant safety programs.
• Revises and maintains the organization’s infection control policies and procedures.
• Oversees cleaning, sterilization and disinfection procedures.
• Educates, monitors and evaluates hand hygiene protocols amongst staff and clients.
• Provides infection control education and communications to staff and clients.
• Responsible for coordinating the infection control program which includes surveillance, analysis of data, developing reports and policies and procedures.
• Provides orientation and training…