Director of Nursing - RN Required

The Director of Nursing (DON) shall be a Registered Nurse (RN) who is responsible for the overall direction of home health clinical services. The DON has overall responsibility for the quality, adequacy of services provided and supervision of nursing staff. The DON establishes, implements and evaluates goals and objectives for home health services that meet and promote the standards of quality. The DON assures that care is coordinated between services and that all of the client's needs are identified through the assessment process and addressed through the implementation of the Plan of Care and supervisory process. DON Job Duties include: -Provides care as defined within the scope of the state's nurse practice act. -Provides those services requiring substantial and specialized nursing skill. -Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions. -Provides those services requiring substantial and specialized nursing skill. -Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing...