DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND NURSING SERVICES- NDVH (3022)
Grade 13

SCOPE OF WORK:

Direct the activities of the Health Services functions of the North Dakota Veteran’s Home in providing for the delivery of health services to all residents. Serve as director of basic and skilled nursing services and also direct the activities for a number of support functions.

DUTIES PERFORMED:

• Provide administrative supervision and direction to all health service disciplines including physical therapy, pharmacy services, medical record administration, and patient activity services.
• Develop, coordinate, and implement procedures and standards for performing and evaluating services provided by Health Services functions.
• Assure appropriate interpretation and implementation of State and Federal requirements in providing services to Veteran’s Home patients.
• Establish and implement policies, procedures, goals and objectives, and standards of practice for nursing services provided by the Veteran’s Home.
• Perform personnel management duties involving the utilization, evaluation, training, and discipline of staff.
• Prepare and administer the nursing services budget and oversee the preparation and administration of the budget for all Health Services functions.
• Participate in and serve as a member of the Veteran’s Home Quality Assurance Management Team.
• Serve as Chairperson of the Pharmacy, Therapeutic, and Infection Control committee.
• Coordinate service activities of the medical director.
• Represent the Health Services functions to outside agencies by involvement in meetings, conferences, committees, and public activities.
• Participate as a member of the Care Team in conducting screening of new residents and determining medical needs and the ability of the Veteran’s Home to provide services.

NOTE: The duties listed are not intended to be all-inclusive. Duties assigned any individual employee are at the discretion of the appointing authority.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Requires a bachelor’s degree in nursing, eligibility for licensure as a Registered Nurse by the North Dakota State Board of Nursing, and three years administrative or management experience in providing nursing or health care services.

Technical Knowledge

• Requires knowledge of principles, concepts, and methodology.
• Requires completion of an undergraduate degree.
• Requires extensive experience in duties of an equivalent type and complexity as those performed at this level.

Management Breadth

• Requires managing and directing the activities of employees working in diversified functions.
• Assigned employees work toward goal(s) of a similar nature.

Interpersonal Skills

• Requires extensive written and verbal communication skills needed to motivate, convince, and/or change behavior or attitude of contacts.

Guidelines

• General guidelines exist.
• Requires judgement in selecting appropriate guidelines.
• Interpretation/adaptation of guidelines is required for specific cases/problems.

Mental Challenge

• Duties are defined in general terms and may vary depending upon circumstances.
• A variety of unrelated procedures are provided for performing duties under varying circumstances.
• Analyzing circumstances to select appropriate procedure to use is necessary.

Independence of Action

• Employees receive guidance and direction.
• Duties include coordinating policy interpretation and individual initiative.
• Problems are solved by revising the procedures or methods needed to fit the situation.
• Duties include planning, organizing, and determining method to produce desired results.

Control of Budget Dollars

• $500,000 to $10,000,000.

Effect on Decisions

• Specific effect - Activities include decisions made in conjunction with others.

Eff. Date: 8/93
Reviewed: 12/96 - Rewritten in current format