Regional Director Of Nursing

BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy•Buffalo, NY

48d•Onsite

About The Position

The Regional Director of Nursing (RDON) coordinates provision of infusion services to maintain compliance by directing professional practices, company policies and procedures, standards of practice, local, state, and federal rules and regulations, and accreditation standards for the assigned services and areas. The RDON will initially focus on New York state with likely, future expansion to other states anticipated. The RDON organizes, plans, implements, and evaluates agency services, programs and activities, with oversight of subcontracted services. Ensures adequate, effective, efficient, and appropriate delivery of services to maintain quality day-to-day care for all clients, which includes the ability to troubleshoot infusion-related problems remotely. The RDON is also responsible for representing BioMatrix infusion nursing with referral sources in a professional and persuasive manner. The primary purpose is to plan, organize, develop, and direct in accordance with current federal, state, and local regulations, accreditation standards, and current standards of practice that govern the assigned services and facilities, and may be advised by the Chief Clinical Officer and/or Medical Director, if applicable, to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times. The Regional Director of Nursing Services is an RN, BSN who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing and is currently licensed to practice in the State of residence. They supervise infusion services regulations and accreditation standards and strives to provide the highest quality of care in their assigned area.

Requirements

Active, unencumbered Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of New York required.
Bachelor of Nursing degree required.
Minimum of five (5) years of experience managing or directing registered nurses required.
Has an extensive knowledge of current vascular access devices and methods applicable to the services provided by BioMatrix.
Knowledge of accreditation standards for infusion nursing and the ability to gain and retain that accreditation.
The ability and flexibility to establish, license, and manage multistate nursing service centers, to include home, office, and ambulatory infusion.
Experience with contracting for infusion nursing services nationally, both in metropolitan and rural service areas.
Knowledge of nursing reimbursement and the ability to manage the reimbursement process.
Fluent in CMS nursing standards and HIT nursing requirements.
Understands and implements effective nursing training and creates tools to measure competence.
Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
Willing to travel for business purposes when necessary to attend meetings, conferences, seminars, etc.

Nice To Haves

Master of Science in related field preferred.
Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in home infusion at a multistate-service-level preferred with a minimum of five (5) of those years having been in strategic leadership roles preferred
Prior AIC/AIS management, operational oversight, and coordination support experience preferred
Current registered nurse infusion certificate (CRNI) preferred.
IgNS certification preferred.
IVIG and Transplant / Infusion therapy experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and periodically update written policies and procedures that govern the day-to-day functions of the nursing service department.
Recruitment, retention, and training of BioMatrix nurses and contracted nurse service organizations.
Manage nursing department expenses and budget.
Expert knowledge of products and services for nursing.
Maintain a reference library of written nursing material (INS, AVA, NHIA, CDC, CMS, state regulations, etc.) that will assist the nursing service department in meeting the day-to-day needs of the patient.
Develop, implement, and maintain an ongoing quality assurance program for the nursing service department.
Responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with home health nursing agencies and licensed organizations to support our patients, including contracting oversight and support. This includes measuring compliance to current standards of practice in accordance with accreditation requirements.
Assist leadership in developing, implementing, and periodically updating the written procedures for new patient admissions and ongoing management of active patients.
Ensures collaboration with referral, reimbursement, pharmacy operational teams, as well as, sales to support patient clinical activities related to home infusion care and patient care coordination is met by a member of the nursing team.
Practiced continuous training for license.
Knowledge of agency policies and procedures.
Qualified in developing standards, which ensure safe and therapeutically effective service to patients and families. Has joint responsibility with leadership for seeing that standards are met.
Attends pertinent continuing education programs other than routing in-services and shares information with staff.
Assist with the development of strategy and implementation of the licensure efforts to broaden our home health licensure footprint and service offerings tied to our infusion pharmacies.
Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct the Nursing Services Department, as well as its programs and activities, in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the company.
Develop, maintain, and periodically update the Nursing Service Procedures Manual, and nursing service objectives and philosophies.
Assist the Performance Improvement Committee in developing and implementing appropriate plans of action to correct identified deficiencies.
Develop methods for coordination of nursing services with other patient services to ensure the continuity of the patients' total regimen.
Develop and implement a nursing service organization structure.
Connect with and oversee clinical and non-clinical team members in multiple infusion pharmacy locations around the country, as requested by leadership.
Develop and implement education programs designed to assist the staff nurse in the progression from novice to expert in the practice of nursing.