Director Nursing Burn Quarterback

Overview

In Critical Care Burn at Main Campus Quarterback Tower

Summary:

Plans, coordinates, and directs the management of clinical activities of a decentralized nursing unit on a twenty-four (24) hour basis. Manages the annual operating, personnel, and capital equipment budget for area of responsibility. Supervises and evaluates work performance in accordance with established criteria based standards of performance. Responsible for selection, development, and promotion of unit personnel. Investigates and completes employee counseling, discipline, and discharge when indicated.

Facilitates unit education by ensuring that unit staff participate in orientation, and mandatory and optional continuing education. Responsible for unit based PI program and contributes to departmental PI program. Ensures compliance with standards of nursing practice that promote optimum patient care on a specified nursing unit. Develops and implements changes in policies and procedures.

Credentials with Equivalent

Qualifications:

• Essential
• Registered Nurse AL Single State or any of the following equivalent qualifications below:
  • Registered Nurse AL NLC Multi State
  • Registered Nurse Non-AL NLC Multi State
• Basic Life Support

Education with Equivalent

Qualifications:

• Essential
• Masters of Science Nursing in Nursing or any of the following equivalent qualifications below:
  • Bachelor of Science Nursing in Nursing and 5 Years job experience as Staff Level with specialization in the field of Nursing Experience RN

Experience with Equivalent

Qualifications:

The Burn Center is a six bed unit that provides acute, critical, ambulatory and rehabilitative care for pediatric burn patients. Trauma and surgery patients that do not present with an infection are also accepted. This unit uses an interdisciplinary team approach to provide comprehensive care to burned and injured children ages birth to young adults. The Burn Center is supported by a multidisciplinary team that consists of physicians, nurses, occupational and physical therapists, child life therapists, social workers, chaplains, nutritionists, and certified teacher.

The team works together closely, to not only meet physical needs but the emotional and social needs of the patient and their families. Burns can cause severe scarring which can alter the child’s appearance and ability to move. The team provides extensive teaching with patients and parents concerning scar management, mobility and coping strategies. The Burn Team not only follows burn patients while hospitalized but also as outpatients in the burn clinic.