DON in long term care

POSITION SUMMARY

Responsible for overall care of assigned residents and supervision of direct care staff in the community.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Current, valid RN license.
• Experience in long-term healthcare required.
• Experience in leadership in a healthcare environment required.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills needed, both verbal and written documentation.

POSITION DUTIES

• Help implement and evaluate care plans for individual care of each resident.
• Maintains appropriate nursing service objectives, goals, and standards of nursing practices.
• Receive, transcribe, and implement physician’s orders in a timely manner.
• Reports required condition changes, events to appropriate parties.
• Administers medication/treatments as prescribed.
• Monitors infection control compliance.
• Investigates/documents accidents/incidents.