Head Nurse - Nursing Home jobs in the United States

Education And Experience:

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position is responsible for supervising the nursing staff.

• Utilizes capabilities of nursing and paraprofessional personnel in the development of orientation and staff education programs.
• Recognizes leadership potential and offering opportunities for leadership training and development.
• Encourages and assists personnel to continue self-improvement through formal education, educational meetings, and active participation in professional and related organizations.
• Assists with interviews and hires select home health care personnel.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for managing, directing, and supervising the following Nursing services.
• Collaborate with other departments and professionals to streamline operations.
• Director of Nursing must be flexible to accommodate schedule changes. May require participation in on-call rotation, travel to assist with necessary patient care coverage and travel to regional/corporate meetings. May also require work after normal business hours to accommodate client/business needs.
• Once a month participation in on-call and weekend coverage rotation.
• Develops standards that ensure safe and effective services to patients and families.
• Keeps staff informed of agency developments, needs, etc., and encourages their participation in problem solving at the organization and community levels.
• Evaluate and implement programs, services, field personnel, service goals and objectives.
• Participates with the Administrator and Executive Director in the formulation of a business plan, i.e., strategic goals, resource allocation plan(s), staffing, and a yearly budget.
• Assists in the evaluation of community needs and plans programs and services to meet with identified needs.
• Establishes and conducts an ongoing quality assurance program as appropriate according to the organizational structure.
• Maintains a Certified Daily report for the agency as outlined in 400.497(5), F.S.
• Performs other duties as assigned and/or required.