Director of Nursing

Director of Nursing Job Description

General Summary of Duties: The Director of Nursing manages the day-to-day operations of the Surgery Center. This includes but is not limited to overseeing the scheduling of procedures, inventory control, QA/ QI, staff credentialing, preventative maintenance and safety, risk management and all related supporting services of the ambulatory surgical center and its personnel.

Reporting

• Reports to the ASC Administrator as part of the Clinical Staff reporting structure shown on the facility organizational chart.
• Receives clinical and operational direction from the ASC Administrator, or designee.
• Works collaboratively with physicians, anesthesia providers, and has oversight of endoscopy technicians, clinical team members, the material manager, and other facility personnel to support safe and efficient patient care.
• Directs and delegates appropriate patient care activities to clinical team members within their scope of practice and competency.

Education And/ or Experience

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Current unrestricted Registered Nurse License in practicing State
• Current American Heart BLS and ACLS

Essential Functions

Qualification Requirements

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, skills, and/or ability needed. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Major Functions and Responsibilities

The main function of the Director of Nursing is that of leadership and promotion of cooperative staff effort.

The Director of Nursing manages the allocation and completion of assigned functions in daily operations.

Areas of accountability of the Director of Nursing are outlined as follows:

• Monitor day-to-day internal flow.
• Assist in Pre-Op, PACU, and O. R.
• Coordinate activity within the O. R. suite.
• Maintain adherence to operating policy/procedure manuals.
• Monitor daily staffing of employees and assignments.
• Ability to keep good interpersonal relationships with patients, coworkers, and other team members.
• Responsibility for performance evaluation of all department personnel.
• Coordination of the provision and control of materials, supplies, and equipment with the Materials Manager.
• Risk Manager Designee.
• Maintain Employee Files.
• Monitor payroll/ overtime.

Fiscal Management

• Monitors budget compliance in daily assessment of services activity.
• Provides input into preparation of services budget.

Standards of Nursing Practice

• Monitors compliance of staff members in the daily practice of nursing care.
• Must prove the knowledge of the principle of growth and development of the life span and can assess data reflective of the patient’s requirements compared to his/her age specific needs and to provide the care needed.
• Cultural practices will be addressed and supported if such practices do not harm others or interfere with planned medical therapy courses.

Policies and Procedures

• Monitors staff compliance with policy and procedures.
• Enforces compliance with policy and procedures.
• Provides counseling and disciplinary measures to Ambulatory Care Services personnel for non-compliance with policy and procedures.

Staffing and Utilization of Services Personnel

• Assigns services personnel based on levels of competency and the needs of the patient.
• Assures fair staff assignments.
• Participate in choice of services personnel.
• Completes and posts services personnel schedule.

Staff Development

• Actively takes part in weekly nursing/clinical staff meetings.
• Monitors staff compliance with orientation and annual re-certification/ training.

Services Environment

• Monitors service environment daily and adhere to the infection control program.
• Accountable for yearly inspections
• Maintains compliance and risk management.
• Manages QA Program.

Language Skills

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to apply basic mathematical fundamentals and concepts such as probability, statistical inference, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to define problems, collect data, show facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demand

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must regularly walk and reach and stretch with hands and arms. The employee often must use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee must often stand; sit, climb or balance stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and smell.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust the focus.

Occasionally, they may use excessive strength to restrain confused or combative patients during and after anesthesia induction.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described above are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works with electrical equipment and may be exposed to communicable disease, wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Environmental/Working Conditions

Normal busy office environment and occasional evening and/or weekend work.

Acknowledgment

This description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities and working conditions may change as needs evolve.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account with an employer contribution
• Life Insurance
• PTO
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match
• And more!

Equal Employment Opportunity & Work Force Diversity

Our organization is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, parental status, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic testing results or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

This practice relates to all personnel matters such as compensation, benefits, training, promotions, transfers, layoffs, etc.

Furthermore, our organization is committed to going beyond the legal requirements of equal employment opportunity to take positive actions which ensure diversity in the workplace and result in a multi-cultural organization.