***$12,000 Sign on bonus*** for full time Director of Nursing

Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has an opportunity for a dynamic Director of Nursing Services (RN) looking to advance their career.

ABOUT RIVERSIDE NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER

We provide the highest quality of care for the Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with a commitment to proudly serve our community's long-term care and rehabilitation needs. We offer services such as speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and dementia/Alzheimer's care. Our goal is to provide this dignified care to all of our residents in a well-maintained, home-like environment. This level of care would not be possible without our compassionate and focused staff working with residents, families, and physicians to create individualized and effective care and treatment plans.

Our company recognizes the amazing efforts of our staff and values their downtime with a work-life balance that includes two weeks of vacation and sick days for a healthy rejuvenation that all employees supply to our patients.

We are looking for an experienced leader to take the building to the next level. We are offering an excellent compensation package that includes highly competitive salary, 401K, and more.

We offer services from short-term to long-term care and a wide variety of living options and professional clinical services. We are changing how care is delivered by bringing together people like you passionate - highly skilled and motivated to make a difference.

The Executive Director and Director of Nursing (DON) infuses collaboration, respect and a passion for helping others by leading the center's nursing team through a shared vision and purpose regarding direct patient care. Holds overall accountability for providing leadership, direction, and administration of day-to-day operations associated with direct patient care.

Responsibilities include:

• Driving business excellence, staff excellence, clinical excellence, and customer service excellence
• Models a service-oriented culture
• Ensures Regulatory and Policy Compliance
• Communicates a shared vision for clinical excellence; ensures the realization of high-quality and cost-effective healthcare
• Fosters an environment of continuous improvement of nursing services and staff to meet patients/residents and their families' needs and expectations
• Supervising all nursing staff
• Overseeing department budgets
• Maintaining high standards of care for all patients
• Managing patients' data and medical records as confidential records
• Communicating with doctors, patients, and family members about patient health
• Providing ongoing education classes
• Implementing new procedures and training Nurses on policies

Essential Duties of DNS:
1. Performs various duties to provide quality nursing care to residents to maintain or attain the highest practical level of functioning and to coordinate total nursing care for the residents as illustrated by the following:
a. Ensures that a sufficient number of qualified supervisory and supportive nursing personnel are assigned for each unit/shift to meet the resident needs.
b. Assists the ADNS in the planning of staff development programs that will enhance staff knowledge of quality resident care.
c. Makes focused rounds daily with supervisors and charge nurses as appropriate.
d. Participates in coordination of resident services through departmental and appropriate staff committee meetings, according to the Resident Care Policies and Procedures Manual.
e. Conducts periodic review to verify that the nursing requirements of each resident admitted to the Facility are reviewed and that the physician is consulted in planning resident care.
f. Maintains and evaluates statistics for: pressure sores, resident Accident and Incidents, number N/G tubes, number of justified Foley catheters, resident census, and resident and employee infections.
g. Reviews closed charts of expired residents for the presence of appropriate documentation and discharge orders.
h. Conducts periodic reviews of Care Plans to verify they are interdisciplinary and updated by the Charge Nurse as changes occur.
i. Checks periodically for documentation for residents on 24-Hour Report.
j. Checks periodically for skilled documentation for Medicare services.
k. Checks on each unit for completed MARS, TARS, and flow forms periodically.
l. Reviews Accidents and Incidents (A/I) and develops an appropriate plan to prevent future accidents and incidents. Conducts periodic reviews of documentation for inconsistencies on each unit.
m. Reviews medical record documentation on referrals and advises Executive Director on whether nursing requirements can be met.
n. Reviews change of condition/24-Hour Report daily and deletes residents from the report as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS of DIRECTOR OF NURSING:
Education/Training: Maintains a current, valid license as a registered professional nurse in good standing (RN). Must have current CPR certification.

Experience: A minimum of one year of experience in nursing service administration preferred. Additional education or experience in such areas as rehabilitative or geriatric nursing is preferred.