Director of Nursing

Position Summary

The Director of Nursing (DON) is responsible for providing overall leadership, coordination, and supervision of the facility’s nursing staff while ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment. This role oversees the development and implementation of medical and nursing policies and procedures, directs nursing training, and ensures compliance with all accrediting body requirements.

Relationships and Contacts

Within the organization: Maintains frequent and close working relationships with the facility Executive Director, Vice President of Nursing Services, Assistant VP of Admissions, Nursing team, Milieu Supervisor, facility leadership, peers and vendors.

Outside the organization: May initiate and maintain working relationships with clinical providers, referral partners, clients and vendors as needed and directed.

Position Responsibilities

Essential Responsibilities

1. Provides leadership and supervision to the nursing team, to include hiring, training, coaching and performance management.
2. Oversees and performs daily vital signs/glucose monitoring of clients.
3. Oversees and performs medication distribution and documentation, identifies medical issues daily, reports issues to Nurse Practitioner as needed.
4. Orders medication and ensures proper delivery from pharmacy.
5. Works with insurance companies on patient medications, completes insurance forms, and calls as needed.
6. Oversees and performs blood draws, following up on lab values as needed.
7. Takes medication orders from MD/NP conducts daily medication order follow up.
8. Maintains medical supply inventory, places supply orders as needed.
9. Coordinates external client medical appointments with team members.
10. Ensures all admission/discharge nursing duties are conducted and documented within required timeframes.
11. Ensures effective communication between medical/nursing staff, medical vendors, and direct care team.
12. Provides medication management and oversite ensuring accurate accounting of medication charting/procedures/training for all nursing staff.
13. Monitors all labs/EKGs/other tests and communicating results with medical providers.
14. Oversees all pharmacy paperwork/forms-includes controlled substances.
15. Oversees infection control program and quarantine program for staff/clients.
16. Maintains biohazard accounts and procedures, ensuring team members are trained on and adhere to infection control procedures.
17. Manages the nursing area including ensuring that medications are secured and only authorized individuals have access.
18. Ensures all admission/discharge nursing duties are conducted and documented within required timeframes.
19. Works closely with vendors and contractors providing clinical services (ie. pharmacy, lab, biohazard pick up, etc.) to ensure proper communication and procedures are followed; provides account management.

Additional Responsibilities

1. Conducts occasional reviews with insurance companies.
2. Coordinates and oversees administration of annual vaccines.
3. Participates in on-call rotation, as scheduled.

Minimum Requirements

Education and Experience

Position requires a bachelor’s degree in nursing, active state Registered Nurse license, 5 years of Nursing/Clinical Experience, and 2 years of leadership experience. Experience in Eating Disorder field preferred.

Must maintain current CPR/1st Aid/ AED certification.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to communicate with peers/general public, clients and/or vendors.
• Tolerant to various noise levels: noise level in the work environment varies – may be very quiet to moderate.
• Job performance will require the ability to move throughout the building as well as sit or remain stationary for extended periods of time.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to talk or hear, sit, stand, walk, reach, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, taste or smell.
• Ability to move up to 25 pounds.

Skill Competencies

• Demonstrates a high level of customer service.
• Demonstrates a high attention to detail and organizational and prioritizing skills.
• Demonstrates proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrates the ability to welcome and integrate feedback from team.
• Demonstrates ability to assess suicide risk and create clinically appropriate interventions.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and report abuse/neglect in client population.
• Demonstrates the ability to chart vitals, daily assessments, group notes, shift notes, and enters physician orders.
• Demonstrates the ability to perform physical assessments including vital signs and to recognize symptoms and distress of clients in treatment.
• Completes comprehensive nursing assessments and aids in the development of a treatment plan.
• Demonstrates the ability to perform an EKG and sends to the appropriate medical team.
• Demonstrates the ability to perform venipuncture and maintain universal precautions while collecting blood.
• Demonstrates proper management of biohazards.
• Demonstrates strong problem solving and analytical skills and the ability to use sound judgement.
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills, while building and maintaining professional relationships.
• Demonstrates a strong belief in and commitment to the values, goals and mission of the Company.
• Demonstrates clinical knowledge of specialized treatment; including established behavioral patterns (including age-related issues), therapeutic treatment methods and dietary/nutritional needs.

Magnolia Creek provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Magnolia Creek reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “At-Will.”