Assistant Director of Nursing/Nurse Educator
Acadia Healthcare · Pittsburgh, PA · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract content:
- Intro: "Southwood Psychiatric Hospital offers comprehensive mental health treatment programs for children and adolescents ages 3-21 whose lives have been disrupted by mental illness. Our facility located in the South Hills near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, provides many levels of care. We are looking to fill the open role of Assistant Director of Nursing/Nurse Educator to join hte leadership team."
That's about the role.
- Purpose Statement: "Assists the DON with directing, planning, coordinating, monitoring and supervising the effective and efficient use of the operations of nursing and the delivery of behavioral health/nursing services in a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers. Recognizes that patient safety is a top priority. As an educator, plan, develop and coordinate continuing nursing in-service education programs within the facility for all clinical and non-clinical nursing staff in a positive, empathetic, and professional manner at all times."
- Essential Functions: list of bullet-like sentences. We'll need to turn into
- . - Nurse Educator Essential Functions: similar. - Other Functions: "Perform other functions and tasks as assigned." - Education/Experience/Skill Requirements: list of requirements. - Licenses/Designations/Certifications: list. - Benefits, Pay, Schedule: Not mentioned. So we should not include those sections. We need to decide sections: About the role (intro + purpose?), Responsibilities (essential functions + nurse educator essential functions + other functions), Requirements (education/experience/skill), Qualifications (maybe licenses/certifications?), Skills (maybe not separate). The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should include only those with real content. We have content for About the role (intro + purpose). Responsibilities (essential functions). Requirements (education/experience/skill). Qualifications (licenses/certifications). Skills maybe not explicit; we could omit if no specific skills listed beyond experience. Could combine skills into Requirements? But better to follow: if no specific skills, omit Skills section. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to ensure we don't duplicate lines. There's duplication: "Evaluate service needs and staffing requirements to ensure needs of patients are met as assigned." appears twice in Essential Functions. We should keep only one instance. Also "Provide staff management to include hiring, development, training, performance management and communication to ensure effective and efficient department operation." appears once. We need to list each essential function as
- . Let's extract them:
Essential Functions list (as in text):
- Work closely with the DON to improve the quality of patient care and services provided by the nursing team.
- Collaborate with medical practitioners and CNO/DON to incorporate nursing processes into the plan of care for patients.
- Collaborate with others to ensure that all patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age, developmental and cultural needs are met and when they are not met, acknowledges and works to resolve customer complaints.
- In the absence of the DON, oversee the nursing team to ensure quality patient care, customer service and compliance with all federal, state and local rules and regulations, as well as the policies and procedures of the facility.
- Assist DON/CNO to provide effective and efficient budget management that ensures the best utilization of resources.
- Assist in the management of the daily operations of nursing services.
- Evaluate service needs and staffing requirements to ensure needs of patients are met as assigned.
- Role models expectations related to customer service and demonstrates a sense of urgency related to the importance of patient safety.
- Ensure nursing services are provided in compliance with the laws and regulations of federal, state and local governmental agencies.
- Provide staff management to include hiring, development, training, performance management and communication to ensure effective and efficient department operation.
- Identify the educational needs of staff and develop educational or training programs.
- Assist with the development and implementation of organizational policies and procedures for the facility.
- Help to develop and maintain documentation systems for continuity of care and record storage that assures compliance with local, state and federal regulations, as well as facility policies and procedures.
- Intervene in crisis situations and investigate incidents.
- Prepare reports to inform management of the status and implementation of programs, services and quality initiatives of the unit.
- Help oversee nursing services documentation to ensure it meets all standards.
- Provide direct care as needed.
- Serve on committees as required.
Note: duplicate "Evaluate service needs and staffing requirements..." appears twice; we keep one.
Now Nurse Educator Essential Functions:
- Provide educational leadership to patients and care providers to enhance specialized patient care within established clinical protocol.
- Promotes safe, quality, and compassionate patient care
- Assist patient and caregivers with education needs, problem solution and health management across the continuum of care.
- Educate direct patient care staff in the use of equipment, supplies, and coordinates in-service training for appropriate staff.
- Supports new ideas and innovation in educational design
- Provides staff with resources and “just-in-time” education to implement immediate changes
- May serve in the role of infection preventionist for the facility with training.
- Other Functions: Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
We could combine "Other Functions" as a separate bullet.
Now Education/Experience/Skill Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree nursing or higher strongly preferred.
- Current registered nursing license in State of facility required
- 5+ Years of experience as a registered nurse preferred.
- Two years of registered nursing experience required.
- Two years experience in behavioral health as an Registered Nurse preferred.
- One year experience in behavioral health/psychiatric/addiction recovery environment (inpatient or outpatient) or relatable experience required
- Prior experience as a nursing manager strongly preferred
- One year of progressive leadership or management experience required
Note: Some redundancy: "Two years of registered nursing experience required." and "5+ Years of experience as a registered nurse preferred." Both are separate; we keep both.
Licenses/Designations/Certifications:
- Current RN license as required by state.
- CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
- First aid may be required based on state or facility.
Now we need to output HTML.
We'll have sections:
About the role
... intro + purpose statement combined? Could split into two paragraphs: intro and purpose. But we can combine into one paragraph; but better to keep separate paragraphs for readability. We must not repeat job title as heading. Already not. We'll output:
About the role
Southwood Psychiatric Hospital offers comprehensive mental health treatment programs for children and adolescents ages 3-21 whose lives have been disrupted by mental illness. Our facility located in the South Hills near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, provides many levels of care. We are looking to fill the open role of Assistant Director of Nursing/Nurse Educator to join the leadership team.
Assists the DON with directing, planning, coordinating, monitoring and supervising the effective and efficient use of the operations of nursing and the delivery of behavioral health/nursing services in a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers. Recognizes that patient safety is a top priority. As an educator, plan, develop and coordinate continuing nursing in-service education programs within the facility for all clinical and non-clinical nursing staff in a positive, empathetic, and professional manner at all times.
Then Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- Work closely with the DON to improve the quality of patient care and services provided by the nursing team.
- Collaborate with medical practitioners and CNO/DON to incorporate nursing processes into the plan of care for patients.
- Collaborate with others to ensure that all patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age, developmental and cultural needs are met and when they are not met, acknowledges and works to resolve customer complaints.
- In the absence of the DON, oversee the nursing team to ensure quality patient care, customer service and compliance with all federal, state and local rules and regulations, as well as the policies and procedures of the facility.
- Assist DON/CNO to provide effective and efficient budget management that ensures the best utilization of resources.
- Assist in the management of the daily operations of nursing services.
- Evaluate service needs and staffing requirements to ensure needs of patients are met as assigned.
- Role models expectations related to customer service and demonstrates a sense of urgency related to the importance of patient safety.
- Ensure nursing services are provided in compliance with the laws and regulations of federal, state and local governmental agencies.
- Provide staff management to include hiring, development, training, performance management and communication to ensure effective and efficient department operation.
- Identify the educational needs of staff and develop educational or training programs.
- Assist with the development and implementation of organizational policies and procedures for the facility.
- Help to develop and maintain documentation systems for continuity of care and record storage that assures compliance with local, state and federal regulations, as well as facility policies and procedures.
- Intervene in crisis situations and investigate incidents.
- Prepare reports to inform management of the status and implementation of programs, services and quality initiatives of the unit.
- Help oversee nursing services documentation to ensure it meets all standards.
- Provide direct care as needed.
- Serve on committees as required.
- Provide educational leadership to patients and care providers to enhance specialized patient care within established clinical protocol.
- Promotes safe, quality, and compassionate patient care
- Assist patient and caregivers with education needs, problem solution and health management across the continuum of care.
- Educate direct patient care staff in the use of equipment, supplies, and coordinates in-service training for appropriate staff.
- Supports new ideas and innovation in educational design
- Provides staff with resources and “just-in-time” education to implement immediate changes
- May serve in the role of infection preventionist for the facility with training.
- Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree nursing or higher strongly preferred.
- Current registered nursing license in State of facility required
- 5+ Years of experience as a registered nurse preferred.
- Two years of registered nursing experience required.
- Two years experience in behavioral health as an Registered Nurse preferred.
- One year experience in behavioral health/psychiatric/addiction recovery environment (inpatient or outpatient) or relatable experience required
- Prior experience as a nursing manager strongly preferred
- One year of progressive leadership or management experience required
Qualifications
- Current RN license as required by state.
- CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
- First aid may be required based on state or facility.
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