Vibra Permanent Staffing Extended Care Lafayette Hospital - Director of Nursing

Responsibilities

• Holds around the clock 100% accountability for management of clinical nursing practice and patient care on a daily basis including safe patient care, staff attendance, and all functions regarding patient care.
• Implements changes necessary for the clinical departments involved to maintain and improve quality patient care.
• Ensures that each nurse on staff is properly licensed and abides by the standards for care established by the organization and state and federal laws.
• Affirms accountability for remaining current on standards of care as established by CMS, state standards and any licensing body involved in surveying the hospital.
• Promotes compliance of standards on a daily basis.
• Participates in all admission decisions ensuring that the patient's clinical needs can be met at the hospital.
• Ensures that daily patient assignments are commensurate with the level of education, training, and demonstrated competencies of personnel.
• Ensures nursing personnel use the nursing process in managing patient care and ensures continuity from admission through discharge.
• Participates in daily and weekly interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient status, census changes, pending admissions, discharges, etc.
• Communicates and interprets policies and procedures to nursing staff and monitors staff practices and implementation.
• Performs rounds to observe care and to interview staff, patients, families, and physicians.
• Makes sure staff for compliance with OSHA mandates and facility policies on workplace safety.
• Makes changes according to the acuity of the patients and the needs of the hospital on a daily basis.
• Sets, implements, and monitors the infection control program which is designed to prevent the development and transmission or disease and infection.
• Prepares and reviews infection control surveillance reports to identify trends and to develop effective actions to control and prevent infections.
• Reports mandatory quality and infection control data to the appropriate regulatory body within the required timeframes.
• Maintains and tracks performance indicators as applicable.
• Coordinates data collection and analysis, prepares reports, tracks the status of the following data: Blood use, Medication use/errors; Risk management, patient safety, infection control, safety, satisfaction surveys; restraints, mortality review, procedure review.
• Ensures monthly environmental monitoring of departmental patient safety compliance data.
• Serves as internal consultant to the executive council, clinical departments, other services, and performance improvement teams, on patient safety initiatives.
• Develops responses to sentinel events.
• Educates staff, employees, and patients/families on safety initiatives.
• Coordinates the regulatory survey process.
• Serves as Chair of the Safety Committee and provides safety reports to performance improvement, Medical Executive Committee and Governing Board.

Qualifications

• Five (5) to seven (7) years of nursing experience in an acute clinical environment including clinical management experience.
• Three (3) years of critical care or comparable experience is preferred.
• Two years of management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree, or combination of an Associate’s degree in an approved Registered Nurse program and meaningful and appropriate experience.
• Current RN licensure in the state where currently practicing, Current BLS and ACLS is required.