Director of Nursing - Addiction Medicine - Ringgold, GA

Location: Ringgold

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Ringgold, GA    time type

Full time    posted on Posted 5 Days Ago    job requisition idR-101681    Crossroads Treatment Centers is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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* Job Description:

** The Director of Nursing is responsible for assisting in all areas of patient care, including physicals, and necessary tests in compliance with State and Federal laws and supervising the nursing staff, including pharmacy technicians and assistants.
** Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following and other duties that are assigned.
** Clinical  
· Prepare all paperwork needing MD signature  
· Approve/deny all medical orders per MD  
· Schedule annual physicals  
· Conduct patient education (pregnancy, hepatitis, etc.)  
· Review lab work with patients  
· Complete patient referrals  
· Assess for over sedation  
· Complete charts on patients  
· Schedule EKG’s/review MD’s recommendation regarding EKG results with patient  
· Perform bottle checks as needed  Supervisory  
· Schedule nursing/pharmacy staff  
· Order medical supplies  
· Prepare training and education for nursing staff  
· Conduct weekly nursing staff meeting  
· Make standard audit chart  
· Audit dose changes  
· Attend team meetings  
· Count medication inventory  
· Monitor dosing area for accuracy and efficiency  
· Review all inventory binders to ensure proper documentation of inventory  
· Review 222 binder for pharmacist signature  
· Ensure nursing staff license is current  
· Reconcile inventory reconciliations as needed  
** Qualification Requirements:
** To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  Position requires constant mental alertness, attention to detail, and high degree of accuracy required in completing all assignments.

Strong problem-solving skills. Smart, driven, exceptional work ethic. Must be able to follow oral and written instructions and follow –through on all assignments. Excellent organizational skills. Highly detailed-oriented. Ability to work well in a group setting and independently.  
** Education and/or

Experience:

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* · The Director of Nursing must meet state-defined minimum licensure, education, and experience requirements.  
** Language

Skills:

** Ability to read, analyze, and interpret human service periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.  
** Mathematical

Skills:

** Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as percentages, mean, mode and median ability to draw and interpret graphs.  
** Reasoning Ability:
** Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  
** Physical Demands:
** The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee regularly is required to stand, walk, sit, use hand to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls;

and reach with hands and arms.  The employee occasionally lifts/carries paperwork, files, office supplies, up to 20 lbs., pushes/pulls exerting up to 5-10 lbs. force, opening doors, file drawers, pushing files in drawers, and kneeling/crouching and/or ability to reach lower file drawers, file stretching to store of retrieve materials. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision…