Job Opportunities in United States

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.