Director of Nursing Labor and Delivery (Joshua Tree)

Director of Nursing Labor and Delivery

Location: Joshua Tree, California, United States

Industry: Healthcare / Health Services - Hospital Administration

Job Category: Medical / Health – Administration

Welcome to Hi-Desert Medical Center, where you’ll benefit from:

A 59-bed acute primary care facility offering you and your family first-rate health care close to home

A wide range of quality inpatient and outpatient diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services, home health and hospice services, and a variety of community outreach programs

A dedicated team of quality, caring, health care professionals

Position Summary

To provide quality, timely and courteous services to all Hi-Desert Memorial Healthcare District’s customers.

Primary Duties

1. Employee leads by example to promote excellence in resident care

2. Employee demonstrates ability to delegate and achieve results through others.

3. Employee demonstrates ability to work within the departmental budget

4. Employee functions as a valued member of the administrative team.

5. Employee demonstrates understanding of and ensures compliance with all state, federal and Joint Commission requirements.

6. Employee leads by example to promote excellence in resident care

7. Employee demonstrates ability to delegate and achieve results through others.

8. Employee demonstrates ability to work within the departmental budget

9. Employee functions as a valued member of the administrative team.

10. Employee demonstrates understanding of and ensures compliance with all state, federal and Joint Commission requirements.

Physical demands:

· Assists with lifting and moving patients

· Moderate physical effort (lift/carry up to 25lbs)

· Occasional prolonged standing/walking

· Occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching

· Occasionally lifts supplies/equipment

Working Conditions:

· Regularly exposed to body fluids and wastes

· Regularly exposed to infections and contagious diseases

· Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances

· Exposed to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries and illness)

· Handles emergency or crisis situations

· May be exposed to/occasionally exposed to patient elements

· May perform emergency care

· Occasional exposure to unpleasant elements

· Requires judgment/action which could result in the death of a patient

· Subject to varying and unpredictable situations

Minimum Education/Certification/Experience:

· 5 years experience as an RN

· 2 years supervisory experience at a manager or director-level

· Current RN License

· Current CPR certification

Shift: Days