Director of Staff Development

POSITION DESCRIPTION: Under the direction and supervision of the Administrator and through consultation and cooperation with the Director of Nurses, the Director of Staff Development is responsible for planning, implementation, direction and evaluation of the facility’s educational programs for all employees and quality assurance and improvement in the facility. QUALIFICATIONS • A graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing. • Current licensure as a Registered Nurse or Licensed Vocational Nurse in the state in which practicing. • Has a minimum of two years experience as a Licensed Nurse in supervision and providing care in a long-term care facility. • Has a 24-hours continuing education course in planning, implementing and evaluating educational programs in nursing. • Possess mental and physical health. • Ability to read, write and speak the English language. GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Coordinates theoretical and clinical orientation to all new employees. • Provides all documents supporting orientation to the facility’s policies and procedures for maintenance in individual employee file folders. • Provides timely documentation of all History/Physicals and TB screenings within seven (7) days of employment. • Reviews Blood Borne Pathogen Policy and Procedure. TRAINING • Coordinates and conducts an effective on-going in-service plan to all employees. • Education Nursing Reinforcement and Training to meet annual 24-hour requirement to all nursing assistants. • Provides and coordinates mandatory annual in-services to all facility employees in accordance with State and Federal regulations and Company policy. • Coordinates yearly calendar and provides schedule to administrator and all department heads. • Schedule annual in-service education for all personnel. ADMINISTRATIVE • Maintains all in-service records on all employees in current, neat and orderly fashion. • Attach lesson plan criteria of information presented. • Individual educational profiles on all Nursing Assistants to ensure all 24-hour annual requirements are met. • Assist the Administrator and the Director of Nursing Services in insuring that all nursing procedures and policies are reinforced. • Monitor, support, teach, and supervise the nursing staff on established procedures, both clinical and theory, on an on-going basis including follow through with one-on-one teaching techniques as needed. • Make daily rounds to insure residents are receiving appropriate nursing care, such as: • Proper turning and repositioning as indicated. • Being exercised/massaged every two hours with each position change. • Having proper bedside supplies (washbasin, bedpan, emesis basin, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc.) • Not left unattended in the bathrooms for long periods of time. • Male residents are shaved during their a.m. care, and female residents are shaved whenever facial hair is evident. • Checked and changed routinely and never left with wet diapers, whether in a wheelchair or bed. • Fingernails kept clean and trimmed. • Never having dried eye secretions crusted in their eyes. • Having privacy curtains drawn at all times while rendering nursing care. • Having call lights answered promptly and/or kept within reach at all times. • Having all food served appropriately, i.e. meat cut, ice cream lids off, etc. Feeder trays are never to be left in the carts; they are to be obtained immediately from the kitchen when resident is ready to be fed.