Summary:
Directs and supervises nursing service and activities during evening, night, and weekend hours.
Responsibilities:
Prepares work schedules, assigns personnel, evaluates work performances and makes recommendations for personnel actions.Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.Prepares written documentation as required by the profession and the department.Administers the nursing program during the evening, night and weekend shifts and coordinates activities. Promotes cooperation of the staff to achieve department objectives and maintain good department relations.Makes complete rounds of all units and notes patients’ condition where appropriate.Assists attending physicians and aides patients and families as needed in times of stress or crisis.Arranges emergency surgery and oth...