Director Of Nursing Services
Tennessee State Veterans Home (Jackson, Tennessee)

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TSVH has an opening for the Director Of Nursing position. Challenging and rewarding opportunity for a Registered Nurse with management experience and excellent clinical skills, and procedures development and implementation abilities.

Reports to Administrator; Manages an administrative team including Asst. Director of Nursing, Quality Assurance Manager; Pharmacy Nurse; Treatment Nurse; Staffing Coordinator/Development and Supervising RN's for each nursing unit.

 

Job Purpose:

Serves patients by managing staff; developing and enforcing nursing policies and services.

Duties:

* Defines nursing practices by encouraging and supporting research and potential quality improvement efforts.

* Influences nursing department t policy by providing nursing services perspective.

* Accomplishes the financial goals of the nursing department by improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of nursing services.

* Maintains medical center legal requirements by interpreting facility policy and state nursing laws; investigating potential breaches; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising administrator and medical director on needed actions.

* Identifies future nursing services requirements by establishing rapport across interdisciplinary services; interpreting information from potential and actual patients and families; conferring with people in a position to understand service requirements.

* Maintains credentialed staff by keeping abreast of advances and specialty opportunities in new and emerging nursing services and technologies.

* Maintains nursing services operations by defining required program and operational and personnel policies; implementing a nursing strategy.

* Maintains a collaborative patient services work environment by fostering a spirit of interdisciplinary cooperation among nursing services, medical staff, and support and ancillary services.

* Contributes to facility effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range issues that must be addressed; providing information and commentary pertinent to deliberations; recommending options and courses of action; implementing directives.

* Represents the facility by collecting data and presenting information at hearings.

* Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

* Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:

Nursing Skills, Performance Management, Staffing, Emphasizing Excellence, Delegation, Coaching, Quality Management, Initiative, Organizational Astuteness, Infection Control, Clinical Skills, Motivation and Leadership Ability.

 

TSVH offers the following benefits of employment:

Exceptional pay rates for proficient and qualified nursing staff.

Rapid accumulation of flexible-use paid personal time-off hours (up to 45 days).

15 Paid Holidays

Non-contributory retirement plan.

Extended disability pay (unlimited accrual for sick leave)

Major Medical/Dental Plans (Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Delta Dental) and supplemental insurance plans.

Visit our Website at www.tsvh.org to learn more about our services and employment opportunities.
 

EOE/M/F/D/V