Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) - Women & Children/Inpatient Float Pool

Lexington Medical Center • SC

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About The Position

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer. Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship. The position assists the Director of Nursing in the day-to-day leadership for the operations of patient care areas, which includes the planning, organizing, and coordinating of patient care delivery to meet established standards as well as developing and managing personnel and fiscal resources. Promotes a practice environment that empowers others to provide effective, compassionate and efficient patient care. Works with Director of Nursing and other nursing and non-nursing leaders to ensure quality services are provided to LMC patients and family members.

Requirements

• Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing and a Masters in a healthcare related field.
• Minimum Years of Experience: 5 Years of experience in acute care, which includes a minimum of 2 years of experience in a nursing leadership/management position.
• Required Certification/Licensure: Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in South Carolina; National nursing certification in specialty or must be acquired within 6 months of hire into the role.

Nice To Haves

• Consideration will be given to candidate enrolled in Master’s program with the understanding that degree must be completed with 12 months of entering role.

Responsibilities

• Assists Director of Nursing with oversight of patient care in areas of responsibility.
• Assists Director of Nursing in identifying trends and changes in health care delivery and clinical practice and collaborates with staff to implement improvements.
• Assists personnel to accept responsibility with respect to attainment of goals and utilization of resources.
• Assists Director of Nursing in developing and implementing systems to measure patient care outcomes, utilization of standards of practice and hospital policy and procedures.
• Ensures that each department has an implemented quality monitoring plan that measures patient outcomes and practice standards and that improvement actions plans are designed and implemented when adherence to standards meets thresholds for evaluation.
• Ensures that members of the staff serve on appropriate hospital committees and PI task forces to identify opportunities for improvement and evaluate and create system enhancements to obtain desired outcomes.
• Investigates patient, family, visitor, and physician complaints concerning services provided, initiates an action plan to resolve the concern and communicates activities with VP.
• Develops, reviews and revises nursing and interdisciplinary policies and procedures to reflect current standards of practice and care.
• Knowledgeable regarding professional practice standards (ANA, DHEC, DNV, CMS, etc.) and shares knowledge with others.
• Maintains professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest trends in areas of responsibility.
• Assists Director of Nursing in ensuring the establishment of departmental goals and objectives and ensures effective utilization of policies and procedures for departmental operations.
• Assists Director of Nursing with the establishing and/or revising job descriptions and associated evaluation tools as needed.
• Assists Director of Nursing with the development of staffing plans for assigned areas.
• Participates in interviewing, hiring, orienting, validating competency of personnel, as well as providing leadership for conducting disciplinary action.
• Evaluates, selects, utilizes and accounts for material resources with appropriate consideration for patient/staff needs, hospital policies and procedures and budgetary constraints.
• Assists Director of Nursing in development of operating and capital budget for assigned areas.
• Assists managers in adhering to approved operating and capital budgets.
• Assists Director of Nursing in preparing accurate departmental reports.
• Identifies opportunities to improve patient care, health care practices, operational systems and processes, and interaction and communication between health care partners.
• Acts as a resource and role model in initiating the PI process and participates in development of action plans to achieve desired outcomes.
• Assists Director of Nursing in providing leadership for quality improvement working collegially with other healthcare team members to ensure quality care delivered to our patients.
• Actively participates in performance improvement committees as assigned.

Benefits

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees