Nursing Director jobs in Passaic, NJ

Director of Nursing

Responsibilities:

The director of nursing will be a registered professional nurse who has at least one year of full time or full time equivalent experience in nursing supervision and/or nursing administration in a licensed health care facility.

A registered nurse will be available on the premises when the home is operating.

Additional licensed nurse will be present in the home when the daily census exceeds 60 participants.

The director of nursing will be responsible for, but not be limited to:

• interviewing the recipients and caregivers in order to evaluate the recipient's health status and health care needs;
• monitoring of identified medical conditions;
• administration and supervision of prescribed medications and treatments;
• coordination of rehabilitative services;
• development of a restorative nursing plan;
• monitoring of clinical behavior nutritional status;
• assisting with the maintenance or redevelopment of ADL skills;
• developing and implementing of infection control procedures;
• communicating the finding to the attending physicians;
• documenting the nursing services provided, including the initial assessment and evaluation of the recipient's health care needs, development of the nursing components in their plan of care;
• overseeing the multidisciplinary plan of care;
• alerting others involved in the recipient's care about changes in status and the need to change the plan of care; establishing relationships with appropriate personnel in other institutions:
• hospitals, rehabilitation centers, home health agencies, clinics, case management sites, laboratories, and related community resources and maintaining ongoing communication with those providers;
• linking the patient to needed health care services outside the program;
• coordinating the interdisciplinary care of plan to meet the mutually identified health care and psychosocial needs of each patient;
• providing staff with training and consultation on medically related topics;
• providing health education for family members;
• be an advocate to assist the patient and family to resolve problems.
• developing and implementing a quality assurance program for nursing components; nursing staff will assure that nursing services provided to recipients are coordinated with health services currently received at home, as well as with existing community health agencies.

To ensure quality personal care, the staff will make a daily check to assure that recipients are maintaining personal hygiene, receiving medications as prescribed including renewal of prescriptions and disposition of outdated or discontinued drugs, and participating inappropriate social and recreational activities; education in and assisting with ADL ( walking, eating, toileting, grooming, etc..)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $85,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Supervising experience: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• RN (Preferred)

Work Location: In person