Travel Nurse RN - Director of Nursing
Brooklyn, NY
MetaSense, Inc.
5x8 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

This is for House Coverage.

Required Skills & Experience:
-Minimum of three (3) years nursing experience including previous supervisory experience.
-Ability to effectively communicate in English both verbally and in writing.
-Excellent creative skills, ideas to improve existing programs.
-Services, processes, ideas that have impact on this job and the department.
-Demonstrated leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, required.

Required Education:
-Master’s Degree in Nursing is required.

Required Certifications & Licensure:
-Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.


Position Summary:
-Off shift weekend/holiday Supervisors.
-Assumes shift responsibility for the overall assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care on the unit.
-Carries Hospital and Nursing Service mission, vision, values and the overall strategic planning, clinical management, patient care, budgeting, financial management and quality management on the unit.
-Promotes the health system service standards and creates a patient focused caring environment while addressing and meeting the individual needs of the patient.
-Fosters an environment of collaboration and respect with physician colleagues, nurses and other healthcare team members.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
-Maintains current knowledge of and ensures compliance with all regulatory and professional standards of care which includes: CMS, IHI, CAP, etc.
-Utilizes creativity in developing quality/performance improvement programs, instructing staff and implementing new and improved standards.
-Utilizes results from “tracer” methodology tools to develop corrective action plans to ensure that quality of care is embedded into clinical practice on an ongoing basis.

Operational Performance:
-Develops, prepares and monitors the personnel, supply and equipment budgets in collaboration with the staff and support department directors.
-Develops long-term unit staffing schedules and ensures adequate daily coverage in accordance with established staffing needs.
-Develops measures and monitors unit operational performance metrics, agency and overtime costs.

Clinical Practice/Patient Care:
-Collaborates with the CNO to establish nursing care standards and evaluates staff compliance.
-Facilitates the effective provision of support services essential to patient care.
-Maintains a safe and caring environment for patients that is conductive to positive health teaching and maintenance; patient and family expectations of care to be delivered in a culturally sensitive manner and role models sensitivity to staff.

Management:
-Participates in the overall planning process for the service.
-Responsible for the overall planning process for the unit.
-Uses findings from patient satisfaction survey and with input from the staff, to establish unit based customer services agenda.
-Uses findings from staff satisfaction survey and with input from the staff, to establish a unit based recruitment and retention agenda.
-Develops an effective plan for delivery of nursing care within the assigned area of responsibility.

Human Resource Development/Management:
-Educates and evaluates staff.
-Educates staff in new and existing department procedures and systems (eg. Information systems, fiscal responsibility, etc.)
-Makes recommendations and provides opportunities for growth and development of personnel and arranges for appropriate education and training.
-Establishes unit metrics and goals to measure effectiveness of retention strategies.

Physical Demands:
-Involves standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing and bending.
-May include some repetitive motions.
-Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising patient care.