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Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Assist in ensuring quality nursing care to all residents/patients. Supports and practices the philosophy, nursing objectives and standards of the Department of Nursing.
• Ensures that the nursing department is adequately staffed to provide quality care to patients/residents.
• Ensures the provision of in-service/staff development programs that contribute to meeting nursing objectives and standards and comply with all state and federal regulations.
• Provides clinical expertise to facilitate and support the nursing process in patient/ resident interventions.
• Assists in ensuring a safe and sanitary environment for patients/residents, employees and visitors.
• Acts as Director of Nursing in the absence of same as described in the Director of Nursing position description if designated by DON (responsibility of QM as well).
• Exercises administrative and functional supervision over nursing personnel as directed by the Director of Nursing.

• Assist in ensuring quality nursing care to all residents/patients. Supports and practices the philosophy, nursing objectives and standards of the Department of Nursing.
• Ensures that the nursing department is adequately staffed to provide quality care to patients/residents.
• Ensures the provision of in-service/staff development programs that contribute to meeting nursing objectives and standards and comply with all state and federal regulations.
• Provides clinical expertise to facilitate and support the nursing process in patient/ resident interventions.
• Assists in ensuring a safe and sanitary environment for patients/residents, employees and visitors.
• Acts as Director of Nursing in the absence of same as described in the Director of Nursing position description if designated by DON (responsibility of QM as well).
• Exercises administrative and functional supervision over nursing personnel as directed by the Director of Nursing.

• Assist in ensuring quality nursing care to all patients/residents. Supports and practices the philosophy, nursing objectives and standards of the Department of Nursing.
• Includes the philosophy, objectives and standards of the nursing department in the orientation and education of nursing service personnel.
• Participates in the implementation of the patient/resident care planning process to comply with patient/resident needs and regulatory agency requirements.
• Makes frequent rounds on nursing units, on all shifts, to assess performance of nursing staff and monitor the quality of care provided to patients/residents.
• Assists with ensuring nursing department compliance with all federal, state and local regulations.
• Participates in internal audits of nursing practice and in the plan of correction when deficits are identified.
• Participates in ensuring all facets of the nursing budget are within established parameters.
  
  Participates in the quality assessment and improvement process and activities.
• Ensures that the nursing department is adequately staffed to provide quality care to patients/residents.
• Establishes and facilitates effective employer/employee relations.
• Assists in recruiting and selecting nursing service personnel based on facility need as directed by the Director of Nursing.
• Ensures all forms and processes related to hiring are completed on new employees.
• Responsible for staffing the nursing department at a level congruent with patient/resident needs, budgeted positions and employee requests.
• Schedules nursing manpower to support individual and group activities for patients/residents out of the facility.
• Participates in orientation sessions for nursing service personnel.
• Assists with evaluation of performance of all levels of nursing service personnel.
• Participates in in-service/staff development programs that contribute to meeting nursing objectives and standards, and comply with all state and federal regulations.
• Provides clinical expertise to facilitate and support the nursing process in patient/resident interventions.
• Makes nursing rounds in a manner that identifies specific patient/resident problems and monitors plan of action implemented by nursing.
• Assess technical skills of nursing personnel by observation of various nursing procedures.
• Assess nursing judgments made in specific situations to determine staff competence and to identify staff knowledge and performance deficits.
• Acts as clinical expert or facilitator in specific patient/resident situations.
• Identifies clinical problem areas for Director of Nursing and assists with development of plan of correction.
• Acts as clinical expert in facilitating the patient/resident care planning process.
• Assists in the development of a daily patient/resident care assignment that meets patient/resident/facility needs.
• Assists in ensuring a safe and sanitary environment for patients, residents, employees and visitors.
• Participates in ensuring a safe environment for patients/residents, staff and family.
• Monitors and reviews patient/resident incidents to identify possible legal issues and to identify…