Location: Queens Village,NY, USA
Job Responsibilities:
Promotes and restores patients' health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area; directing and developing staff; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staffs; providing physical and psychological support for patients, friends, and families.
Job Duties: Accomplishes nursing human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; recommending compensation actions; adhering to policies and procedures. Meets nursing operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying system improvements. Meets nursing financial standards by providing annual budget information; monitoring expenditures; identifying variances; implementing corrective actions. Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements. Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures. Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments. Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up on work results. Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients.
RATES: $52-$65 AN HR.