What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Nursing position at Domus Search?
- The Director of Nursing is responsible for overseeing the professional nursing staff and certified nursing assistants in the delivery of Home Care services
- Supervise or manage all personnel who provide direct patient care
- Ensure that the professional standards of community nursing practice are maintained by all nurses providing care
- Adhere to Agency procedure and patient care policy
- In conjunction with Director of Home and Community Based Services, establish service policies and procedures regarding biomedical waste, safety, universal precautions, and infection control
- Set or adopt policies for, and keep records of criteria for admission to service, case assignments, and case management
- Case manager for all Home Health patients involving Home Health services
- Responsible for the clinical record for each patient receiving nursing care
- Assure progress reports are made to physician for patients receiving nursing services
- Makes supervisory visits to patient’s home every 60 days for those clients with Home Health services
- Assign patient care
- Complete admission assessments for Home Health within 48 hours of services commencing
- Write a Plan of Care for each patient
- Conduct competency checks for LPN’s and CNA’s and participates in annual staff evaluations
- Manage the ongoing quality assurance program
- Ensure that case assignment and case management is appropriate, adequate, and consistent with plan of care, medical regimen, and patient needs
- Ensure that nursing and other services provided to the patient are coordinated, appropriate, adequate, and consistent with plans of care
- Ensure that all service outcomes are completely legibly documented, dated, and signed in the clinical service record
Salary : $95,000 - $115,000