Director of Nursing

Job description

Smithfield, Virginia Overview: The Director of Nursing oversees quality, adequacy of services provided, and supervision of staff. Establishes, implements, and evaluates goals and objectives for clinical services that meet and promote the standards of quality. Assures that care is coordinated between services and that all resident needs are identified through the assessment process and addressed through the implementation of the Plan of Care and supervisory process. What you will do: - Ensures the facility/department is in compliance with applicable regulatory statutes, standards of care, job performance and competency standards. - Ensures that sufficient and properly prepared personnel are available to meet operational needs. - Assures the comprehensive care plan of care is maintained in conjunction with other disciplines by coordinating with other services such as rehabilitation, social services, activities, dietary, pharmacy, consulting physicians etc. - Implements facility policy and procedures designed to promote resident/participant and employee safety and reduce avoidable related injuries. Promotes employee compliance with these policies and procedures including new hire and...