Director of Nursing (DON)
Description
Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health is looking for a Director of Nursing (RN) for the Fort Lauderdale, FL. Angels of Care is a family and clinically owned organization that has been caring for the medically fragile community since 2000! We pride ourselves on our values: Heart, Advocacy, Love, Outreach, and Speed! #HALOS
The Director of Nursing (DON) is responsible for the overall supervision. The DON shares responsibilities with the Administrator for overall compliance with the State and Federal guidelines and standards of nursing practice.
Pay Range: $70,000-$85,000
Duties and Responsibilities:
Pay Range: $70,000-$85,000
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervise and direct all clinical services.
- Availability at all times during operation hours.
- Promote, review, and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of patient care practices.
- Revise nursing care plan for appropriateness and application of physician’s plan of care
- Maintain contact with patient and family via telephone and through patient care staff
- Review patient care through on-going communication with nursing staff & case mangers
- Review on-going evaluation of performance of personnel
- Review and act to resolve complaints made by patients/families regarding care provided relating to services, personnel, or policies.
- Receive and act to resolve complaints from caregivers regarding policies and procedures.
- Inform and confer with Administrator on all patient, personnel, and service management needs and problems.
- Participate in assigning personnel to patients based on patient need and physician’s plan of care.
- Assign personnel responsibility according to their education, area of expertise, personal preference, and patient needs
Position Qualifications:
- Must be a Registered Nurse currently licensed.
- Minimum of two (2) years general Pediatric nursing experience, with at least (6) months experience caring for medically fragile infants or children in a PICU/NICU/ED or similar setting during the past (5) years.
- Hold a current CPR
Physical Qualifications:
- Must be able to work a minimum of 40 hours per week.
- Must be able to speak and hear in a manner understood by most persons.
- Must be able to lift and transfer patients, using proper body mechanics
- Able to bend and stand an average of 6 hours per day.
- Lift up to 50 - 75 pounds.
- Able to write up to 3 hours per day.
- Able to work in a stressful environment.
- Assist with weekly laundry and maintaining a clean work environment.
- Able to assess and communicate with patients, co-workers, and general the public
Why Angels of Care:
We have a full benefits package, outlined below. Among these great benefits, we LOVE our employees! We appreciate our field staff, keep you informed on ways you can help advocate for our medically fragile kids, and so much more!
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Health Plans
- Flexible scheduling
- Competitive pay
- Patient Care Coordination Services
- and much more!
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Information
Individuals seeking employment at Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health are considered without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status.