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Job Summary

The nurse manager of nursing services shall be responsible for the direction, provision, and quality of nursing services provided to clients, including the following:

Essential Functions

• Providing administrative oversight of the facility's nursing services, and where appropriate, directly supervising the facility's nursing staff.

• Assisting the administrator of the facility in developing and maintaining written objectives, policies and procedures related to nursing services, developing an organization plan, and developing a quality assurance program for nursing services, and reviewing all nursing policies and procedures, minimally, on an annual basis.

• In conjunction with the administrator and the governing authority of the facility, planning and budgeting for nursing services.

• Ensuring the coordination and integration of nursing services with other client care services to ensure continuity of care for each client.

• Ensuring that the facility complies with required nursing staffing patterns.

• Assisting in the development of written job descriptions for the nursing staff and assigning duties of the nursing staff.

• Participating in staff orientation and staff education activities, when applicable.

• Participating in team conferences with the multidisciplinary team.

• Oversee nursing care to patients on the detoxification unit to ensure the following:

• Nursing personnel possess the appropriate current nursing license necessary to provide the services and be a member in good standing.

• Participating in the development of client treatment plans.

• Providing face-to-face health care monitoring for the facility's clients.

• Where medically and clinically appropriate, participating on the multidisciplinary treatment team.

• Document in the nursing portion of the patient care plan and shall comport with the facility's policies and procedures governing client documentation. Such documentation shall include, but need not be limited to, clinical notes, record of medications administered, date the medication is ordered by the physician and the date the medication is to be discontinued, the name and strength of the medication; date and time of the administration of the medication; effects of medication (if indicated); the dosage administered; method of administration; the signature of the nurse who administered the medication or identification of the nurse by an entry code if a computerized clinical record system is used and the reason the client refused to receive the medication or why the client did not receive the medication at the designated time, if applicable.

• A record of medication self-administered by clients shall be maintained in the nursing portion of the client care plan and the medication administration record. Such documentation shall include: whether medication was taken orally, injected, inserted, topically or otherwise administered by a client to himself or herself; verification of the dose with the prescriber's orders; verification that the client took his or her own individual dose; If self-administration is observed, a recording of the observation that the client has taken his or her own medication orally, by way of injection, topically or insertion in nursing portion of the client care plan and medication administration record; and signature of the nurse who observed the client's self- administration of medication or identification of the nurse by an entry code if a computerized clinical record system is used.

GENERAL PROGRAM MANAGEMENT:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Minimum Education

A graduate from a state-approved school of nursing, passed the NCLEX-RN Examination. N.J. Registered Nurse

Minimum Work Experience

1 year of experience in addiction services with 3 of those years in a supervisory capacity.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

Exempt full-time regular business hours 37.5-hour work week and must provide on-call coverage as needed.

Physical Demands Analysis:

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, analyze, interpret, and evaluate information presented in research reports, professional publications, referral documents and similar materials.

• Ability to write clearly and cohesively and to present information effectively both orally and in writing.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions from a wide variety of data and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to climb stairs.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit; stand, walk, stoop, or kneel.

• Employee may occasionally lift to 20 pounds or assist in lifting patients in emergencies.

• May work at keyboard intermittently throughout the day.

Work Environment:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.