Director of Nursing – Brooklyn

Director of Nursing

Horizon Healthcare Staffing is searching for a Director of Nursing for one of our clients located in Brooklyn. The Registered Nurse should have experience with home infusion therapy.

Job Duties Include:

• Work alongside the Director of Pharmacy and collaborate with physicians in establishing, implementing and maintaining patient care and quality service standards
• Interviewing, hiring, training, and supervision of Registered Hi-Tech Skilled Nurses, planning, assigning, and directing work.
• Monitoring and assessment of patients receiving high risk infusions. Patient teaching, communication with Doctors, Pharmacists, Social workers and Dieticians to ensure continuity of care.
• Participating in performance improvement activities, teaching nurses when required and accepting triage calls from patients when necessary.
• Ensuring compliance with ACHC, DOH, and NYS Regulations.
• To maintain clinical credibility and recognition within the multidisciplinary team.
• To maintain an intricate knowledge of, and ensure staff compliance in the training, safe usage and maintenance of complex critical care equipment.
• To demonstrate sound levels of clinical judgment and decision making in implementing and/or modifying interventions.
• To accurately document patient assessment, interventions, referrals and/or follow ups.
• Track and monitor risk management incidents, medication errors, and patient safety issues.
• Oversee of all laboratory operations such as venipuncture, collection/prep of specimens, coordinate tracking system for lab results, medications and pharmaceutical samples.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree of nursing
• Current New York State Registered Nurse License
• At least eight years of nursing experience (preferably Hi-tech Skilled Nursing) and three to five years of progressive management experience.
• IV Certification
• PICC/MID-LINE Certification
• Previous outpatient and ambulatory clinical experience
• Candidate must be articulate and possess excellent verbal/written and listening communication skills and have the ability to communicate both verbally and written, with patients, clients, management and other employees.
• Must have strong knowledge base in clinical aspects of home infusion therapy.