Assistant Director of Nursing

Nursing Home Administrator

The purpose of this position is to support the DON in planning, directing and monitoring nursing activities for Pleasant View Nursing Home.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES including the following:

• Consult with nursing supervisors and staff regarding resident's condition and nursing staff concerns during daily rounds.
• Monitor trends in conditions, issues, and inefficiencies and conduct a root cause analysis and process improvement.
• Monitor or delegate monitoring of nursing guidelines through audits and on-site inspections.
• Maintain knowledge of current State, Federal and local laws, rules, regulations and ordinances regarding long-term nursing care.
• Initiate and complete process improvement projects for quality and regulatory compliance.
• Provide oversight and training to nursing staff for assessments and clinical documentation.
• Implement Correction Plans as regulatorily required in the survey process.
• Conduct Facility Reported Incident Investigations including implementing the needed corrective actions.
• Oversee the Infection Prevention Program.
• Provide backup support for Nursing Care Coordinators.
• Serve in the DON role when the DON is absent or unavailable.
• Perform additional duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
• Coordinate initial and on-going education with nursing supervisors regarding Pleasant View specific policies and procedures.
• Conduct performance reviews of clinical staff and develop goals and training plans in response to reviews.
• Monitor staffing levels for compliance. Approve overtime and compensation time as needed.
• Review time sheets.
• Review nursing staff incident/accident reports.
• Assign staff to light duty in consultation with administration and Human Resources.
• Coordinate nursing guidelines with other departments and services including social services, housekeeping, activities, therapists, and beauticians.
• Coordinate restraint and drug reduction programs for all residents.
• Review MDSs, quarterly reviews, and risk assessments for developing resident problems. Participate in the QA process in the area of nursing services.
• Participate in State and Federal nursing home surveys and recommend and implement deficiencies correction.
• Participate in on-call for nursing management problems.
• Represent nursing staff in community and professional activities.
• Maintain routine communication with residents/families and community as needed.
• Act as resident advocate.
• Participate in developing a nursing service budget and recommend equipment purchases.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS 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. EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Associate degree or Bachelor's degree or diploma in nursing.Bachelor's degree and experience in long-term nursing preferred.
• Wisconsin Registered Nurse license with seven years RN experience, including three in a supervisory capacity or any combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• An excellent attendance record is required.

• Wisconsin Registered Nurse license.
• Ability to obtain Infection Prevention Certificate

Other

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to decide the time, place and sequence of operations with a system or organizational framework, as well as the ability to oversee their execution.
• Ability to develop, analyze and categorize data and information using changing and established criteria, in order to define consequences and to consider and select alternatives.
• Ability to compare, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and information.
• Ability to classify, compute, tabulate, and categorize data.
• Ability to manage and direct a group of workers.
• Ability to counsel and mediate.
• Ability to persuade, convince and train others.
• Ability to advise and interpret on how to apply guidelines and standards to specific situations.
• Ability to use advisory and design data and information such as technical manuals, resident records, admission and discharge documents, physician's orders and reports, budget reports and summaries, nursing staff certification and licenses, payroll records, lab reports, drug reference manuals, incident/accident reports, medical charts, Bureau of Quality Assurance memos and audit reports, rules and regulations regarding long-term care, billing statements, resident care plans, restraint consent forms, nursing guidelines, infraction control manuals, County-union contracts, personnel guidelines, non-routine correspondence, professional nursing journals and periodicals, laws and educational curricula.
• Ability to communicate effectively with nursing personnel, PVNH departments heads, therapists, physicians, County Supervisors, nursing educators, hospital and clinic personnel, residents, residents' families, lab technicians, pharmacists, clergy, insurance company representatives, vendor representatives, Administrator, State and Federal health care regulators.
• Required to consistently communicate effectively and professionally with Green County citizens, clientele, employees, and officials.

• Ability to calculate percentages, fractions and decimals; ability to calculate volume, ratios, and ability to interpret basic descriptive statistical reports.

• Ability to use functional reasoning development in performing functions within influence systems such as associated with supervising, managing, leading, teaching, directing and controlling.
• Ability to apply situational reasoning ability by exercising judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or set of programs.

• Ability to coordinate eyes, hands, feet and limbs in performing semi-skilled movements involved in nursing practice.
• Ability to exert moderate physical stress in sedentary to light work, involving climbing and balancing. Ability to stoop, squat, bend, kneel, reach, twist, climb and balance approximately 1-33% and have hearing acuity, vision acuity far, vision acuity near, color vision and depth perception approximately 67-100% of the time working.
• Ability to use both right and left hands for repetitive actions such as grasping, grasping and turning, fine manipulation, speed work.
• Ability to operate equipment and machinery requiring simple, periodic adjustments. Ability to move and guide material using simple tools. Ability to operate mechanical lifts, stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, and thermometers.
• Ability to coordinate eyes, hands, feet and limbs in performing slightly skilled movements such as cutting, reading care plans, walking to assist residents.
• Ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, forms, sounds, tastes, odors, textures etc. associated with objects, materials and ingredients.

• Environmental factors: work under moderately safe and comfortable conditions with potential factors such as odors, smoke, potential violence, noise, disease.