In accordance with established mission, policies, and procedures of Friendship Village of Dublin (FVD), including Resident Rights, and/or specific instructions from the DON, the ADON is responsible for supervising the state tested nursing assistants, setting standards of care, taking into account the medical, physical, emotional and psychological needs of each resident and assumes DON responsibilities in absence of DON.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities.

• Plans, conducts and evaluates organized orientation and training programs for all newly hired STNA associates which are scheduled on a regular basis. Monitors new hire satisfaction and orientation progress, proficiency and completion.
• Tracks, using an organized systematic approach, the educational requirements for STNA staff in accordance with state and federal regulatory guidelines.
• Plans and coordinates the annual skills proficiency checkoff and monthly training program calendar in collaboration with other facility management team members and organizational resources.
• Facilitates the LCS Clinical Programs for skin/wounds, infection control and prevention, antibiotic stewardship, and pain management. This includes education, monitoring and measurement, and ongoing evaluation of compliance and proficiency of program components.
• Coordinates instructors with expertise in the appropriate discipline to improve and develop skills of STNA staff members. Utilizes community resources for training programs.
• Conducts regular review of 24-hour report, incident report review, point of care compliance and accuracy for identification of items for action.
• Facilitates regular review of point of care (POC) and call light acceptance compliance for identification of items for action and/or improvement.
• Participation and coordination with Director of Nursing for on-call schedule.
• Monitors outcome of associate training sessions with regard to skills taught and session evaluations.
• Participates in Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Committee and makes recommendations for areas of improvement through performance improvement process initiation.
• Ensures and regularly audits new resident admission assessment and surrounding documentation, daily skilled documentation, baseline care plan document for compliance and completeness with accuracy.
• Directly supervises oversight of short stay/skilled residents including admission audits, medication reconciliation, pain management and resident satisfaction.
• Monitors overall resident satisfaction including short stay admission and discharge satisfaction scores, comments and concerns collected by satisfaction collection tools.
• Coordinates and facilitates Health Center STNA scheduling, ensuring appropriate staffing ratios are satisfied.
• Coordinates the activities of student-interns engaged in learning programs within the licensed care facility(s) from various learning institutions.
• Assists in facilitation of weekly physician meeting to represent acute clinical care needs summary and follow up planning.
• Makes routine rounds to assure proper care and a safe, clean resident environment.
• Coordinates and participates in weekly wound care rounding in coordination with contracted wound specialty physician services.
• Participates in family/resident counseling.
• Participation in weekly resident-centered care meetings to include by not limited to: Utilization Review, Risk Management, Initial Baseline Care Plan Meeting, bi-weekly Staffing Meeting, scheduled care conference meetings.
• Functions in the capacity of Director of Nursing in his/her absence.
• Assures effective communication with other shifts and departments as it relates to resident care.

What you’ll be doing:

• Growing your career through our Grant Program!
• Participate in daily nursing report along with daily electronic documentation
• Administering medications and treatments
• Assisting in direct resident care
• Work with a high quality, collaborative team. No agency!