Assistant Director, Nursing

Duties & Responsibilities

• Affords assistance in the development of policies, objectives, and standards of nursing service and education.
• Affords assistance in the preparation of personnel, supply, and equipment budgets.
• Affords assistance in the development of administrative procedures and programs of patient care.
• May have responsibility for planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and evaluating the nursing service in a major clinical division, or a home health agency in a hospital, participating in selection, placement, and follow-up of patients transferred to homes.
• Affords assistance in the development of a nursing education program.
• Assumes responsibility for planning, directing, coordinating, and evaluating nursing service on the evening and night tours.
• Directs activities of Supervisor of Nurses.
• Prepares and makes periodic and daily reports on administrative matters relating to staff and patient management.
• Participates in the direction and implementation of a quality assurance program for nursing.
• Attends and chairs regular staff meetings with nursing personnel.
• Assesses nursing services by making rounds, conducting chart reviews, and evaluating patient care.

Minimum Qualifications

• Licensed and currently registered to practice as a professional nurse in New York State, plus (2) or (3), below.
• A Master’s Degree in Nursing Administration, Education, Clinical Specialty or equivalent field and five years of satisfactory nursing experience, of which three years shall have been in a supervisory or teaching capacity.
• A Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing and six years of satisfactory nursing experience, four years of which shall have been in a supervisory or teaching capacity.

However, all candidates must be licensed and currently registered to practice as a Professional Nurse in New York State.